now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

* Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest ; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

Prince Edward Island celebrates Arbour Day on the 3rd Friday in May during Arbour Week.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

In Chile most services and businesses are closed on both New Year's Day ( January 1 ) and Labor Day ( May 1 ).

The Army day or St. George's Day ( 6 May ) is an official holiday in the country.

Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 ( Ascension Day ) and was buried at Jarrow.

On the Tuesday before Acension Day ( 26 May ) his breathing became worse, and his feet swelled.

Although the holiday may use features of the Gaelic Beltane, such as the bonfire, it is more alike the Germanic May Day festival, both in its significance ( focusing on fertility ) and its rituals ( such as maypole dancing ).

In Irish Gaelic, the month of May is known as Mí Bhealtaine or Bealtaine, and the festival as Lá Bealtaine (' day of Bealtaine ' or, ' May Day ').

In Modern Irish, Oíche Bhealtaine is May Eve, and Lá Bealtaine is May Day.

This term Lá Buidhe Bealtaine is also used in Irish and is translated as ' Bright May Day '.

The dictionary also states that Dia Céadamhan is May Day and Mí Céadamhan is May.

*** Operation May Day

On May 27, 1957, " That'll Be The Day " was released as a single, credited to the Crickets to try to bypass Decca's claimed legal rights.

In 2012, Ditch Day fell on May 24.

In May 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was persuaded by the idea of countering the United States ' growing lead in developing and deploying strategic missiles by placing Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Prime Minister Percival James Patterson visited Cuba at the end of May 1997.

Labour day in Cuba is celebrated on the first day of May.

This was the time of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser, and the victories of Mao Zedong in China and Fidel Castro in Cuba, as well as the events of May 1968 led to increased interest in revolutionary ideology, especially by the New Left.

* May 20, 1902 — Cuba gains independence from the United States.

* May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.

* May 21 – The US State Department releases a report naming 7 state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.

In May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland the United Nations Committee against Torture released a report, which, along with calling on the United States to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and criticizing interrogation techniques, took note of the " limited investigation and lack of prosecution " in connection to accusations of torture in Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department.

In May 1988, a US mediation team – headed by Chester A. Crocker, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs – brought negotiators from Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, and observers from the Soviet Union together in London.

* 1948: On May 5 Cubana de Aviación inaugurates its first transatlantic flight Havana-Madrid on board DC-4 " Estrella de Cuba ".

Cuba, Kansas and Jim Richardson were highlighted on the " CBS News Sunday Morning " show in 1983 and May 9, 2004 as well as the May 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine.

On May 29, 1898, 1060 Rough Riders and 1258 of their horses and mules made their way to the Southern Pacific railroad to travel to Tampa, Florida where they would set off for Cuba.

Atanasio Pérez Rigal ( born May 14, 1942 in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba ), more commonly known as Tony Pérez, is a former Major League Baseball player.

* David Ruppe, " U. S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba ; Book: U. S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U. S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba ," ABC News, 1 May 2001.

" On May 6, 2005, Audioslave played a free show in Havana, Cuba.

The preparations were nearly complete, with several thousand men prepared to go, when in May 1854 the administration reversed course and undertook steps to stop what it had almost put into motion, presumably because it felt that in the wake of the furor over the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that action to add slaveholding territory such as Cuba would cause irreparable damage to the Democratic Party in the North.

Tomás Estrada Palma, who had once favored outright annexation of Cuba by the United States, became President of Cuba on May 20, 1902.

** May 31 – US Fleet skirmishes with Cristóbal Colón and the fortifications of Santiago, Cuba ( S )

Finally, on 29 May, after several misadventures, Cristóbal Colón was spotted in the harbor at Santiago de Cuba by an American squadron.

On the morning of 29 May, Cervera's squadron was sighted inside the safety of Santiago Bay, Cuba, by elements of the " Flying Squadron ".

Prebisch was asked by the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLA ) at that time, Gonzalo Martinez-Cabañas, to write a text for the second annual meeting of ECLA, that was going to take place in Havana, Cuba on May 14, 1949.