| 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
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| 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 |
*
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their
Lives during the Second World War (May 8-9)
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 |
Fair
Trade Day [2nd
Saturday]
Henry
Kaiser born in New York, 1882
Sophie
Scholl born in Germany, 1921
Daniel
Berrigan born in Minnesota, 1921
|
| May
10 |
Mother's
Day [2nd
Sunday] -
originally Mother's Day for Peace, proposed by Julia Ward Howe,
1870
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 |
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 |
*
World Migratory Bird Day
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 Silverstein 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
Frank
Capra born in Sicily, Italy, 1897
|
| 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
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