May 2013 Educators' Calendar

May Day

Mother Goose Day

Act of Union Formed Britain (1707)

Penny Black First on Sale (1840)

Soviet Union Announced Fall of Berlin (1945)

World Press Freedom Day

New Zealand Proclaimed Independent to NSW (1841)

International Firefighters Day

Margaret Thatcher Elected; First Female Prime Minister (1979)

International Dawn Chorus Day

Napoleon Died (1821)

Labour Day (Qld), May Day (NT)

Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

Roger Bannister Ran Mile Under 4 Minutes (1954)

Channel Tunnel Opened (1994)

Compost Awareness Week

World Asthma Day

Beethoven's 9th Symphony Premiered (1824)

Australia Granted First Coat of Arms (1908)

Germany Surrendered to Allies (1945)

World Red Cross Day

VE Day (1945)

Ascension Day (Christian Feast Day)

Europe Day

Beatles Signed First Recording Contract (1962)

World Lupus Day

Nelson Mandela Became President of South Africa (1994)

FA Cup Final

World Fair Trade Day

Crossing the Blue Mountains (1813)

Mother's Day

Florence Nightingale's Birthday (International Nurses Day)

Ada Evans First Female Law Graduate (1902)

First Fleet Leaves England Bound for Australia (1787)

Food Allergy Awareness Week

National Volunteer Week

Midnight Sun

Shavuot (Jewish Festival) Begins at Sundown

First Smallpox Vaccine Administered (1796)

Warsaw Pact Signed (1955)

International Conscientious Objectors' Day

International Day of Families

Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikh) (1563)

Royal Flying Doctor Service Founded (1928)

Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI Married (1770)

First Woman Climbed Mount Everest (1975)

International Museum Day

Million Paws Walk

Pentecost/WhitSunday (Christian Festival)

Anne Boleyn Beheaded (1536)

Simpson Killed at Gallipoli (1915)

Charles Lindbergh Began Transatlantic Flight (1932)

Australia's First Comic Book Published (1934)

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic (1932)

First Hydrogen Bomb Dropped by Air (1956)

International Day for Biological Diversity

Carolus Linnaeus Born (1707)

Walk Safely to School Day

First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)

First Woman to Fly Solo from England to Australia (1930)

Israeli Troops Pulled Out of Lebanon (2000)

International Missing Children's Day

UEFA Cup Final

Jesse Owens Broke Three World Records (1935)

National Sorry Day

Apartheid Introduced in South Africa (1948)

Weightlifter Dean Lukin Born (1960)

Australia's Biggest Morning Tea

Queen Mary Maiden Voyage (1936)

Aboriginal's Given Full Citizenship Rights and Equality (1967)

National Reconciliation Week

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week

Patrick White Born (1912)

Ian Fleming Born (1938)

Monkeys Survive Space Mission (1959)

International Day of UN Peacekeepers

Hillary and Tenzing Reached Mt. Everest Summit (1953)

Boris Yeltsin Elected Russian President (1990)

Joan of Arc Burned at Stake (1431)

Vegemite Invented (1923)

World No Tobacco Day

South Africa Became Independent (1961)