| May
1 | International
Workers' Day Law
Day
GLOBAL
LOVE DAY
Mother
Jones born in Ireland, 1830 Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin born in France, 1881 Judy
Collins born in Washington, 1939 Swanee
Hunt born in Texas, 1950 National
Holiday of Marshall Islands |
| May
2 | Benjamin
Spock born in Connecticut, 1903 Joanna
Macy born in California, 1929 Perdita
Huston born in Maine, 1936 Bianca
Jagger born in Nicaragua, 1950 80
nations agreed on total ban of ozone destructive chemicals, 1989 |
| May
3 | *World
Press Freedom Day
Pete
Seeger born in New Jersey, 1919 Leyla
Zana born in Turkey, 1961 Princess
Haya of Jordan born in Jordan, 1974 National
Holiday of Poland |
| May
4 | Audrey
Hepburn was born in Belgium, 1929 The
"Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South to promote civil rights, 1961.
Don't
Make A Wave Committee officially changed its name to "Greenpeace Foundation",
1972. |
| May
5 | Gilbert
M. Grosvenor was born in Washington, DC, 1931 Mohandas
Gandhi freed from prison, 1944 UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan achieved agreement on Independence of East Timor,
1999 |
| May
6 | Jean-Michel
Cousteau born in France, 1938 George
Clooney born in Kentucky, 1961 Agenda
for Development published by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1994 |
| May
7 | Olympe
de Gouges born in France, 1748 José
Antonio Abreu born in Venezuela, 1939 |
| May
8 | Henri
Dunant born in Switzerland, 1828 Edgar
"Daddy" Allen born in Massachusetts, 1862 Smallpox
eradicated by World Health Organization (WHO) two years after last case, 1980 |
| May
9 | Henry
Kaiser born in New York, 1882 Sophie
Scholl born in Germany, 1921 Daniel
Berrigan born in Minnesota, 1921 |
| May
10 | Fair
Trade Day (*2nd
Saturday) Beyers
Naudé born in South Africa, 1915 Jean
Houston born in South Africa, 1937 Christina
Tézenas du Montcel born in France, 1943 Donovan
born in Scotland, 1946 Bono
born in Ireland, 1960 National
Holiday of Israel
Opening
of Hague Appeal for Peace, The Netherlands 1999 |
| May
11 | Mother's
Day - originally Mother's Day for Peace, proposed by Julia Ward Howe, 1870
(*Second Sunday in May) Natasha
Richardson born in England, 1963 United
Nations Under Secretary-General Ralph
Bunche achieved peaceful independence of Bahrain, 1970 More
than 170 countries agreed to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely
and without conditions, 1995 |
| May
12 | First
Session of Commission on International Law 1947 Florence
Nightingale born in Italy, 1820 Gabriel
Byrne born in Ireland, 1950 |
| May
13 | Stephen
Colbert born in South Carolina, 1964 |
| May
14 | Robert
Owen born in Wales, 1771 |
| May
15 | *International
Day of Families Utah
Phillips born in Ohio, 1935 National
Holiday of Paraguay
Stained-glass
window 'Peace' by Marc Chagall dedicated in UN Meditation Room, 1963 |
| May
16 | Universal
Peace Union founded in Providence, RI, USA by Alfred Love, 1866 Studs
Terkel born in New York, 1912 Robert
Jay Lifton born in New York, 1926 John
Conyers, Jr. born in Michigan, 1929 Pierce
Brosnan born in Ireland, 1953 |
| May
17 |
Robert Alan born
in New York, 1959 *WORLD
TELECOMMUNICATION DAY
in honor of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) founded 1865 National
Holiday of Norway |
| May
18 | Opening
of the first Hague Peace Conference, called by Czar Nicolas of Russia, 1899 Bertrand
Russell born in Wales, 1872 |
| May
19 | Yuri
Kochiyama born in California, 1921 Cynthia
Basinet born in California, 1971 UN
guided Namibia to independence, 1967 |
| May
20 | John
Stuart Mill born in England, 1806 Franz
Jägerstätter born in Austria, 1907 National
Holiday of Cameroon |
| May
21 |
*Diversity Day
Dialogue
Day
Elizabeth
Fry born in England, 1780 Léon
Bourgeois born in France, 1851 Andrei
Sakharov born in Moscow, 1921 Mary
Robinson born in Ireland, 1944 |
| May
22 | *BioDiversity
Day National
Holiday of Yemen
Biodiversity
Convention adopted, Nairobi 1992 M.
Scott Peck born in New York, 1936 Betty
Williams born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1943 |
| May
23 | First
Special Session on Disarmament at UN Headquarters, New York City 1978 Margaret
Fuller born in Massachusetts, 1810 Jewel
Kilcher born in Utah, 1974 |
| May
24 | Bob
Dylan born in Minnesota, 1941 George
Lakoff born in 1941 Eren
Keskin born in Turkey, 1959 National
Holiday of Eritrea |
| May
25 | *Week
of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories (May 25 -
June 1) Ralph
Waldo Emerson born in Massachusetts, 1803 Rev.
Theodore Hesburgh born in New York, 1917 Eve
Ensler born in New York, 1953 National
Holiday of Argentina, Jordan |
| May
26 | National
Holiday of Georgia Aruna
Roy born in India, 1946 Lenny
Kravitz born in New York, 1964 |
| May
27 | Nothing
To Fear Day
Amelia
Bloomer born in New York, 1818 Julia
Ward Howe born in New York, 1819 Rachel
Carson born in Pennsylvania, 1907 Hubert
Humphrey born in South Dakota, 1911 |
| May
28 | National
Holiday of Azerbaijan, Ethiopia |
| May
29 | *
International
Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Abdoulaye
Wade born in Senegal, 1926 |
| May
30 | Ruth
Manorama born in India, 1952 National
Holiday of Croatia |
| May
31 | *
World No Tobacco Day
Walt
Whitman born in New York, 1819 David
A. Morse born in New York, 1907 Peter
Yarrow born in New York, 1938 |
