Second week of May, 2025 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

Cinco de Mayo is a celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5,..→

International Day of the Midwife was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world. The idea of having a day to recognize..→

School buses provide an estimated 10 billion student trips every year. School buses in North America are distinguished from other bus types by design characteristics man..→

It is the time of year that so many of us begin to think about the coming summer months of bared bodies — shorts, swimsuits, sleeveless tops. For the weight-worried among..→

Each year from May 6 to May 12, we recognize the invaluable work of nurses during National Nurses Week. Nurses are the first line of defense in the prevention of illness ..→

The first Tuesday of the first full week in May is designated as "Teacher Appreciation Day." (Ohio Revised Code - GENERAL PROVISIONS - Chapter 5: STATE INSIGNI..→

Ethnic differences in asthma frequency, illness and death are highly connected with poverty, city air quality, indoor allergens, not enough patient education and poor hea..→

In Columbus, Mississippi, Emancipation Day is celebrated on May 8, known locally as "Eighth o’ May". As in other southern states, the local celebration commemor..→

Hernando de Soto (c. 1500 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United S..→

As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually. And as of 2003, National School Nurse Day is celebrated on the Wednesday withi..→

By resolution 59/26 of 22 November 2004, the UN General Assembly declared 8–9 May as a time of remembrance and reconciliation and, while recognizing that Member States ma..→

On President Truman’s desk in his White House office there was a painted glass sign "The Buck Stops Here". On its reverse side the sign had the words "I’m ..→

The Red Cross Day was celebrated for the first time throughout the world on 8 May 1948, the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross. It sub..→

In North and South Carolina, May 10 marks the anniversaries of the death of Thomas Jonathan ’Stonewall’ Jackson (a general in the Confederate army) in 1863 and the captur..→

The bird that makes the longest migration is the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) from Alaska. Its non-stop flight distance is about 7 000 km. International Migrator..→

Mother’s Day is observed in the United States on the second Sunday in May annually. The first celebration of Mother’s Day was held at St Andrew’s Methodist Church in Graf..→

In 2006, the United Nations established World Migratory Bird Day to be held on the second weekend of May every year. The event was founded as an effort of the UN’s Agreem..→