May 2013 Educators' Calendar

May Day

Act of Union Formed Britain (1707)

Penny Black First Sold (1840)

Great Exhibition Opened (1851)

International Fire-fighters Day

Margaret Thatcher Elected; First Female Prime Minister (1979)

International Dawn Chorus Day

Napoleon Died (1821)

Tony Blair Became Prime Minister (1997)

May Bank Holiday

Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

Roger Bannister Ran Mile Under 4 Minutes (1954)

Channel Tunnel Opened (1994)

Scotland Elected Separate Parliament (1999)

Compost Awareness Week

World Asthma Day

Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Born (1840)

Lusitania Sunk (1915)

Germany Surrendered to Allies (1945)

World Red Cross Day

V-E Day (1945)

Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

Europe Day

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract (1962)

Winston Churchill Became Prime Minister (1940)

Nelson Mandela Became South Africa's President (1994)

FA Cup Final

World Fair Trade Day

HMS Beagle Launched (1820)

Florence Nightingale's Birthday (International Nurses Day)

Limerick Day

British Sandwich Week

Mary Queen of Scots Defeated at Battle of Langside (1568)

Pope John Paul II Shot & Wounded (1981)

First Smallpox Vaccine Administered (1796)

British Rule of Palestine Ended; Israel Formed (1948)

Warsaw Pact Signed (1955)

International Conscientious Objectors' Day

International Day of Families

Shavuot (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh) (1563)

Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI Married (1770)

First Woman Climbed Mount Everest (1975)

Museums at Night

World Telecommunication Day

Helen Sharman Is First Briton in Space (1991)

Pentecost/Whitsunday (Christian)

Anne Boleyn Beheaded (1536)

Spanish Armada Set Sail for England (1588)

Charles Lindbergh Began Transatlantic Flight (1932)

National Epilepsy Week

National Vegetarian Week

RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic (1932)

First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air (1956)

Rajiv Gandhi Assassinated (1991)

Walk to School Week

International Day for Biological Diversity

First Battle in War of Roses (1455)

Zoologist Carolus Linnaeus Born (1707)

European Day of Parks

First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)

Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon (2000)

International Missing Children's Day

UEFA Cup Final

Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)

Apartheid Introduced in South Africa (1948)

Spring Bank Holiday

St. Petersburg Founded (1703)

Queen Mary Maiden Voyage (1936)

British Ships Sank Bismarck (1941)

National Family Week

Author Ian Fleming Born (1938)

Monkeys Survive Space Mission (1959)

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

Boris Yeltsin Elected Russian President (1990)

Joan of Arc Burned at Stake (1431)

King Henry VIII Married Third Wife, Jane Seymour (1536)

World No Tobacco Day

South Africa Became Independent (1961)