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.

`` Just befoh he left foh his academeh we wuh hevin dack-rihs on the vuhranduh, Major Roebuck an Ah, an Huhmun says ' May Ah hev one too '??

Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

In spite of powerful opposition the Draft Act finally passed Congress on May 17, 1917.

The other four states end on varying dates: Alabama ( Sept. 30 ), New York ( March 31 ), Pennsylvania ( May 31 ), and Texas ( August 31 ).

Pennsylvania closes its fiscal year on May 31.

Miss Sally May Saabye, ( Miss Rhode Island 1960 ) says that within a short time -- on June 17th -- her reign will come to an end.

In May 1960, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology began a series of articles on the `` Medical Museum '', and in June, the Institute started contributing a regular monthly `` Case For Diagnosis ''.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

May I add a caution on this particular point??

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

Measurements at 3.15 cm were obtained on 11 days spread over the interval May 3 to June 19, 1956, using the 50-foot reflector at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

From March 3 to May 1, 1949, the patient was maintained on dexamethasone, 3 to 6 mg. daily.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

We first see him shaking Mrs. Joe's hand on discovering the sizable amount of the premium paid to her husband for Pip's indenture as an apprentice and later pumping Pip's hands `` for the hundredth time at least '' ( `` May I -- may I -- ''??

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

On last May 1, the Cardinals stood at 7-6, ending a two-season fall-off on that milestone.

In 1958, the Birds were 3-10 on May 1.

Since 1949, the St. Louis club has been below on May 1 just four times.