Майский календарь

May Calendar      

1. May Day
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3.  -  World Press Freedom Day                           \\           -    The outstanding Russian lexicographer and ethnologist Vladimir Dahl presented his legendary Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian Language to the Society of Russian Language enthusiasts(1862) Read about it                                                                                                                                             
4. International Firefighters' Day
5. First American in Space
6. International No Diet Day
7. Composer Peter Tchaikovsky's Birthday (1840)
8. World Red Cross Day        \\ Teacher Day in the USA \\      VE Day
9. Victory Day \\ May 9, 1945 Мы победили!    Great Patriotic War
10. First Trancontinental Railway Completed
12. Kites Day \\   Nurse Florence Nightingale's Birthday (1820) International Nurses Day
13. Mother's Day in the USA Read about it   here  
14. About the Warsaw Pact
15. International Day of Families  Read about it
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17. World Telecommunications Day
18. International Museum Day  Read about it
19. - Это был  День Пионерии  Young Pioneers \ Pioneer Movement 19 May Events
20. Levi Straus markets his blue jeans in 1874  and other events of this day
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22. International Day for Biological Diversity  Read about it
23. Turtle Day // Wright Brothers Patented the Aircraft (1906) //
24. First Telegraph Message Transmitted (1844)
25. International Missing Children's Day
26. International Jazz Day Read
27. Saint Petersburg Founded (1703) \\ Golden Gate Bridge Opened (1937)
28. Memorial Day in the USA Read
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30. Our US Friend DeEtta's Birthday
31. World No Tobacco Day Read