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May 2008
1
May Day
1
Ascension
1
Birthday of Judy Collins (b. 1934)
1
Global Love Day
1
Mother Goose Day
1
Birthday of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)
2
Holocaust Remembrance Day
3
Birthday of May Sarton (1912 - 1995)
4
Birthday of Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
5
Cinco de Mayo
7
Birthday of Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840 - 1893)
7
Birthday of Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
7
Birthday of Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
8
Rabindranath Tagore’s Birthday
9
Birthday of James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)
10
Pangea Day
10
International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD)
11
Mother's Day
11
Feast Day of St. Comgall
11
Birthday of Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989)
12
Birthday of Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)
12
Birthday of Br. Roger of Taize (1915 - 2005)
13
Feast of Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - 1417)
13
Mawlid al-Nabi
(until May 14)
15
International Conscientious Objectors' Day
15
Birthday of L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1910)
16
Amitabha Buddha Day
17
Brown vs. Board of Education Ruling
19
Festival of the Sacred Spring
19
Visakha Bucha Day
20
Birthday of Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926)
20
Wesak Festival
22
Birthday of Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844 - 1926)
22
Birthday of Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
23
Birthday of Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
23
Declaration of the Báb
(until May 24)
25
Birthday of Beverly Sills (b. 1929)
25
Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
26
Memorial Day Observed
27
Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)
27
Birthday of Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
29
Ascension of Baha'u'llah
31
Birthday of Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
June 2008
1
First of June
3
Iroquois Strawberry Festival
(until June 6)
7
Birthday of Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
8
Birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959)
9
Shavuot (Feast of Weeks)
(until June 11)
9
Pentecost
11
Trinity Sunday
11
Birthday of Jacques-Ives Cousteau (1910 - 1997)
12
Birthday of Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)
13
Birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
13
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
14
Flag Day (U.S.A.)
15
Father's Day
16
Mother Ganges Festival
17
Birthday of M.C. Escher
17
Birthday of Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
19
Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi
20
Feast of the Great Spirit
(until June 21)
20
Lakota Sun Dance
(until June 23)
20
Solstice
21
World Peace and Prayer Day
22
Birthday of Dame Cicely Saunders (1918 - 2005)
22
Birthday of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)
24
Zuni Corn Dance
(until June 27)
26
Birthday of Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973)
26
Birthday of Antonia Brico (1902 - 1989)
27
Birthday of Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
28
Birthday of John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
29
Birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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