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Events In May 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in May of this year.
May Events
Grand Prix of Spain (ES): May 30 - June 1
Daily
Grand Prix dates are set in December and January for the following year. Until that time, this date is estimated based on the previous year's event. The Grand Prix of Spain, also known as the Spanish Gran...
May
Grand Prix, Miami (US-FL): May 2-4
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The Miami Grand Prix is a Formula One racing event held for the first time in May 2022, and it is one of three Grand Prix races held in the United States. Designed by Herman Tilke, it is a street circuit...
May
Grape Popsicle Day (1905): May 27
Daily
Grape Popsicle Day celebrates the grape popsicle. Popsicles were invented on May 27, 1905, by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. Frank was outside, mixing water with some grape flavoring to make soda. He le...
May
Great Prayer Day—Store Bededag(DK): May 16
Daily
The fourth Friday after Easter is Great Prayer Day, Common Prayer Day, or in Dutch, "Store Bededag," a public holiday celebrated in Denmark. On Store Bededag, the Danes walk through Langelinie or Kastelle...
May
Green Up Day (US-VT): May 3
Daily
In 1969 Burlington Free Press reporter Robert Babcock approached then-governor Deane Davis with an idea: set aside one day a year to clean up Vermont's roads. By 1970, it became a reality. A poster contes...
May
Greenery Day (JP)(1901): May 4
Daily
Greenery Day is a national holiday in Japan originating from the celebration of Emperor Shōwa's birthday on April 29. In 1989 the name of the holiday was changed from "Birthday of the Emperor" to "Green...
May
Guru Amar Das Sahib (S)(1479): May 5
Daily
Guru Amar Das Sahib (May 5, 1479-September 1, 1574), was the third Guru of the Sikhs and an influential spiritual leader in Sikhism. He was born in Basarke, a village near Amritsar in present-day Punjab,...
May
Guru Arjan Dev Ji (S)(1653): May 2
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Guru Arjan Dev Ji (May 2, 1563-June 16, 1606), was the fifth Guru of the Sikhs and a prominent spiritual leader in Sikhism. He was born in Goindwal, Punjab (present-day India), to Guru Ram Das Ji, the fo...
May
Haitian Heritage Month: May
Monthly
May is Haitian Heritage Month, a time to remember the unity reached by the Black and Mulatto officers at their historic congress on May 15-18, 1803, to fight together against slavery in the French colony...
May
Hamburger Day, Ntl.: May 28
Daily
National Hamburger Day celebrates the world's favorite sandwich. The Library of Congress states the first hamburger sold in America was in 1900 by Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant, and restaurateur in Ne...
May
Hamburger Month, Ntl.: May
Monthly
National Hamburger Day celebrates the world's favorite sandwich. The Library of Congress states the first hamburger sold in America was in 1900 by Louis Lassen, a Danish immigrant, and restaurateur in Ne...
May
Harvey Milk Day (1930): May 22
Daily
Harvey Milk was an American politician and gay rights activist and the first openly gay elected official in the United States. Born on May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, New York, Milk spent much of his early lif...
May
Heal the Children Month: May
Monthly
Heal the Children Month is a national fundraising and awareness drive by the non-profit Healing the Children. The organization provides critical medical care to children worldwide with the goal of ensurin...
May
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: May 19-25
Weekly
National Healthy and Safe Swimming Week, formally known as Recreational Water Illness & Injury Prevention Week, occurs during the week prior to Memorial Day in the United States. National Healthy and Sa...
May
Healthy Vision Month (US): May
Monthly
May is Healthy Vision Month. Studies show there is a gender gap in eye disease. Women are more likely than men to suffer from sight-threatening conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD),...
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