May Authors and History Calendar

 

                          

 

May 1                            May Day

May 4, 1945                  Don Wood

May 5                            Cinco de Mayo – Mexican Holiday

May 5, 1910                  Leo Lionni

May 6, 1931                  Judy Delton

May 8, 1884                  Birth date of President Harry S. Truman

May 11, 1927                Zilpha Keatley Snyder

May 13, 1607                Founding of Jamestown colony

May 18, 1925                Lillian Hoban

May 18, 1980                Mt. St. Helens exploded

May 19, 1884                Ringling Brothers’ first circus formed

May 22, 1933                Arnold Lobel

May 23, 1902                Scott O’Dell

May 29, 1790                Rhode Island entered the Union

May 29, 1917                Birth date of President John F. Kennedy

May 31, 1819                Birth date of American poet Walt Whitman