May – Monthly Celebrations

Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Be Kind to Animals Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Better Sleep Month
Bike Month
Breathe Easier Month
Clean Air Month
Correct Posture Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Digestive Diseases Month
Family Support Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Go Mingle Month
Good Car Keeping Month
Great Rejoicing Month
Hepatitis Awareness Month
High Blood Pressure Month
Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
International Classified Ads Month
Lusty Month (don’t ask me what this is!)
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month
Mental Health Month
More than Just a Pretty Face Month
National Allergy and Asthma Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbeque Month
National Bike Month
National Book Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Digestive Diseases Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National High Blood Pressure Education Month
National Hispanic History Month (Cinco de Mayo = May 5th) also.
National Home Decorating Month
National Hope Chest Month
National Maritime Month
National Melanoma – Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month
National Mental Health Month
National Messes Month
National Minority of Your Choice Month
National Moving Month
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
National Project Safe Baby Month for gerber baby
National Prom Graduation Safety Month
National Revise Your Work Schedule Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month (Spice)
National Sight-Saving Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Trauma Awareness Month
National Under-Appreciated Librarian Month
National Water Month
National White Male Month
National Women’s Health Care Month
Neurofibromaatosis Month
Older Americans Month
Philatelic Exhibition Month
Physical Fitness and Sports Month
React Month
Recommitment Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Senior Citizens Month
Sight Saving Ultraviolet Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Teaching and Joy Month
Touring Theatre Month
Tuberous Sclerosis Month
USA Tennis Month
Women’s Health Care Month

May – Weekly Celebrations

National Extension Homemaker Council Week (1st Week)
National Pet Week (1st Week)
Peace of Mind Week (1-7)
Penfriends Week (1-7)
National Connecting Week (1-7)
Safe Kids Week (5-12)
Family Week (6-12)
PTA Teachers Appreciation Week (6-12)
Tourism Week (6-12)
National Nurses Week – 6-12 (Anually, beginning May 6, National Nurses Day, and ending May 12, Florence Nightengale’s birthday)
National Postcard Week (6-12)
National Wildflower Week (6-12)
National Girls Club Week (2nd Week)
National Historic Preservation Week (2nd Week)
National Nursing Home Week (2nd Week)
National Salvation Army Week (2nd Week)
Coach Recognition Week (13-19)
Emphysema Awareness Week (13-19)
Historic Preservation Week (13-19)
National Police Week (13-19)
National Running and Fitness Week (13-19)
National Stuttering Awareness Week (13-19)
National World Trade Week (13-19)
National White Cane Week (3rd Week)
National Girls Incorporated Week – (14-20)
National Etiquette Week – (14-20)
National Gamblers Week (14-20)
National Pickle Weeks (last two weeks)
National New Friends, Old Friends Week – 20-27
National School Support Staff Week – (20-27)
National Backyard Games Week – (20-28)
National Public Relations Week (last week)

May – Daily Celebrations

Lei Day – 1
May Day – 1
National Law Day  – 1
National Executive Cooking Day – 1
National Loyalty Day – 1
National Mother Goose Day – 1
Save the Rhino Day – 1
School Principal’s Day – 1
National Teen Day – 1
National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day – 2
Roberts Rules of Order Day – 2
Sibling Appreciation Day – 2
Library Legislative Day – 2
National Lumpy Rug Day – 2
National Tax Freedom Day – 2
Tax Freedom Day – 3
United Nations World Press Freedom Day – 3
International Tuba Day – 4
National Weather Observer’s Day – 4
National Relationship Renewal Day – 4
Bonza Bottler Day TM – (5/5)
Cinco de Mayo – 5
National Cartoonist Day – 5
National Day of Prayer – 5 (First Thursday in May)
National Indian Day – 5
Totally Chipotle Day – 5
International UNmothers Day – 6
National Nurses Day – 6
National No Diet Day – 6
National Anniversary of the first Postage Stamp – 6
National Melanoma Monday Day – 7
National Teacher Day – 7
National World Red Cross Day – 7
Mother’s Day – 8
No Socks Day – 8
V-E Day – May 8, 1945
World Red Cross Day – 8
National Night Shift Workers Day – 9
National Third Shift Workers Day – 9
National Receptionists Day – 10
National Small Business Day – 10
National Read-in Day – 10
Eat What You Want Day – 11
Trust Your Intuition Day – 11
International Migratory Bird Day – 12
National Limerick Day – 12
National Kite Day – 13
Mother Ocean Day – 13
Underground America Day – 14
International Day of Families – 15
National Employee Health & Fitness Day – 15
National Hug Your Cat Day – 15
Peace Officer Memorial Day – 15
True Confessions Day – 15
National Biographers Day – 16
National “Be a Millionaire” Day – 16
National Employee Health and Fitness Day – 16
National Bike to Work Day – 16
New York Stock Exchange Anniversary – 17
United Nations World Telecommunication Day – 17
International Museum Day – 18
National Visit Your Relatives Day – 18
National Do Dah Day – 19
United Nations World Refugee Day – 20
American Red Cross Founding Day (1881) – 21
Armed Forces Day – 21 (Third Saturday in May)
National Wait Staff Day – 21
National Maritime Day – 22
United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity – 22
National Turtle Day – 23
National Mudbug Madness Day – 24
National Missing Children’s Day – 25
National Tap Dance Day – 25
National Grape Popsicle Day – 27
National Jazz Days – 27
National Ancestor Honor Day – 27
United Nations World No-Tobacco Day – 28
National Loomis (Telegraphy) Day – 30
Memorial Day – 30 (officially observed last Monday in May)
National No Tobacco Day – 31