| May
1 |
International
Workers' Day (www.WorkersDay.com)
Law
Day (www.PeaceCalendar.net/lawday.htm)
Mother
Jones born in Ireland, 1830
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin born in
Fance, 1881
Judy
Collins born in Washington,
1939
National
Holiday of Marshall Islands
|
| May
2 |
Benjamin
Spock born in Connecticut,
1903
Perdita
Huston born in Maine, 1936
80
nations agreed on total ban of ozone
destructive chemicals 1989
|
| May
3 |
*World
Press Freedom Day
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/may3.htm)
Pete
Seeger born in New Jersey,
1919
National
Holiday of Poland
|
| May
4 |
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.
Audrey
Hepburn was born in Belgium,
1929
|
| May
5 |
Mohandas
Gandhi freed from prison, 1944
UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan achieved
agreement on Independence of East
Timor, 1999
|
| May
6 |
Agenda
for Development published by Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1994 |
| May
7 |
Olympe
de Gouges born in France, 1748 |
| May
8 |
Henri
Dunant born in Switzerland,
1828
Smallpox
eradicated by World Health Organization
(WHO) two years after last case, 1980
|
| May
9 |
Sophie
Scholl born in Germany, 1921
Daniel
Berrigan born in Minnesota,
1921
|
| May
10 |
Bono
born in Ireland, 1950
National
Holiday of Israel
Opening
of Hague Appeal for Peace, The Netherlands
1999
|
| May
11 |
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
|
| May
13 |
Fair
Trade Day (www.FairTradeDay.com)
(*2nd Saturday) |
| May
14 |
Mother's
Day - originally Mother's Day
for Peace, proposed by Julia Ward
Howe, 1870 (*Second Sunday in May)
Robert
Owen born in Wales, 1771
|
| May
15 |
*International
Day of Families - www.FamiliesDay.com
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
John
Conyers, Jr. born in Michigan,
1929
Pierce
Brosnan born in Ireland, 1953
|
| May
17 |
*WORLD
TELECOMMUNICATION DAY in honor
of International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) founded 1865 (www.PeaceCalendar.net/may17.htm)
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 |
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 |
*World Day for Cultural Diversity
for Dialogue and Development - www.DiversityDay.net
Dialogue
Day - www.DialogueDay.com
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 |
*International
Day for Biological Diversity (www.PeaceCalendar.net/may22.htm)
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
National
Holiday of Eritrea
|
| May
25 |
*Week
of Solidarity with the Peoples of
Non-Self-Governing Territories (May
25 - June 1) (www.PeaceCalendar.net/may25.htm)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson born in Massachusetts,
1803
National
Holiday of Argentina, Jordan
|
| May
26 |
National
Holiday of Georgia
|
| May
27 |
Nothing
To Fear Day - www.NothingToFearDay.com
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
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/may29.htm)
|
| May
30 |
National
Holiday of Croatia |
| May
31 |
*World
No Tobacco Day (www.PeaceCalendar.net/may31.htm)
Walt
Whitman born in New York,
1819
Peter
Yarrow born in New York, 1938
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