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May 2024 solar storms
The May 2024 solar storms, known as the Gannon storm, drove the first G5 extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003, with naked-eye aurora visible as far south as Mexico and India.
May 2025 Gaza offensive
Operation Gideon's Chariots, the May 2025 Israeli ground and air offensive in the Gaza Strip, launched May 16-17, 2025 after cabinet approval, aiming to defeat Hamas, free hostages, and hold territory; it ran to August 4, 2025.
May 2026 political peerages
May 2026 political peerages: 26 UK life peerages announced 12 May 2026 by 10 Downing Street, two Labour, nine crossbench, fifteen Conservative, created as hereditary peers left the House of Lords.
May 21
May 21 is the 141st day of the Gregorian year (142nd in leap years). Key anniversaries include Clara Barton founding the American Red Cross (1881), Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight (1927), and Rajiv Gandhi's assassination (1991); it hosts International Tea Day.
May 22
May 22, the 142nd day of the Gregorian year (143rd in leap years), is the UN's International Day for Biological Diversity and marks the 1455 First Battle of St Albans, the 1939 Pact of Steel, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, and the 2011 Joplin tornado.
May 24
May 24, the 144th day of the Gregorian year, marks Morse's 1844 first telegraph message, the 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opening, the 1956 first Eurovision, the 1941 sinking of HMS Hood, Queen Victoria's 1819 birth, World Schizophrenia Day, and Bermuda Day.
May 25
May 25, the 145th day of the Gregorian year, marked by the 1787 Constitutional Convention opening, the 1977 Star Wars premiere, the 1979 Flight 191 crash, George Floyd's 2020 killing, and observances including African Liberation Day, Towel Day, and Memorial Day in some years.
May 26
May 26, the 146th day of the year: Dunkirk evacuation began 1940, ABM Treaty signed 1972, Andrew Johnson acquitted 1868, and Independence Day in Georgia (1918) and Guyana (1966).
May 27
May 27 is the 147th day of the year, marking the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703 and the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937.
May 28
May 28: day 148 (149 in leap years) of the Gregorian year. Date of the 585 BC war-ending eclipse, 1918 Azerbaijan independence, 1961 Amnesty International founding, 1998 Pakistan nuclear test; Republic Day and Menstrual Hygiene Day.
May 29
May 29, the 149th day of the Gregorian year, marks the 1453 fall of Constantinople, the 1953 first Everest ascent by Hillary and Norgay, the 1914 Empress of Ireland sinking, and International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
May 3
May 3, the 123rd day of the Gregorian year, is Poland's Constitution Day (1791), Japan's Constitution Memorial Day (1947), and World Press Freedom Day; other events include the 1913 release of Raja Harishchandra and the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore F5 tornado.
May 30
May 30, the 150th day of the Gregorian year, is the original Decoration Day (first national observance 1868), now Memorial Day's former fixed date, and hosts World MS Day, National Mint Julep Day, and the Lincoln Memorial dedication anniversary.
May 31
May 31, the 151st day of the Gregorian year (214 days remain), hosts World No Tobacco Day and events including Big Ben's clock starting (1859), the Johnstown Flood (1889), the Treaty of Vereeniging (1902), and the Battle of Jutland (1916).
May 4
May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marked by Star Wars Day and the anniversary of the 1970 Kent State shootings.
May 5
May 5, the Gregorian calendar date commemorating the 1862 Battle of Puebla (Cinco de Mayo), Mexican victory over France; also the Council of Europe's founding, West German sovereignty, births of Marx and Kierkegaard, and Napoleon's death.
May 68
May 68 (Mai 68), the May-June 1968 French uprising: student revolt at Nanterre and the Sorbonne grew into a general strike of about 10 million workers, ending when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly.
May 7
May 7 is the 127th day of the Gregorian year (128th in leap years). Key events: Beethoven's Ninth premiere (1824), the Lusitania sinking (1915), Germany's Reims surrender (1945), Dien Bien Phu (1954), and the US National Day of Prayer in some years.
May 8
May 8, the 128th day of the Gregorian year, is Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day), marking Germany's 1945 surrender; also World Red Cross Day, the UN 8–9 May remembrance, and events from Coca-Cola (1886) to smallpox eradication (1980).
May 9
May 9, the 129th day of the year, is Europe Day (Schuman Declaration, 1950) and Victory Day in Russia and several post-Soviet states; also the 1914 Mother's Day proclamation and the 1960 FDA approval of the first contraceptive pill.
May Britt
May Britt (Maj-Britt Wilkens, 1934–2025), Swedish actress of Jolanda, War and Peace, The Blue Angel, and Murder, Inc.; second wife of Sammy Davis Jr. from 1960 to 1968; distinct from Maj-Britt Nilsson and May-Britt Moser.
May Calamawy
May Calamawy (مي القلماوي), Egyptian-Palestinian actress born in Bahrain in 1986, known as Dena Hassan in Hulu's Ramy and as Layla El-Faouly/Scarlet Scarab in Marvel's Moon Knight (2022).
May Coup (Serbia)
The May Coup (Majski prevrat) was a 1903 palace coup in Belgrade in which army officers killed King Alexander I Obrenović and Queen Draga, ending the Obrenović dynasty.
May Coup of 1926
The May Coup of 1926 (Przewrót majowy) was an armed takeover of Warsaw by troops loyal to Marshal Józef Piłsudski, who overthrew the Witos government in May 1926.
May D (musician)
May D (Akinmayokun Awodumila) is a Nigerian Afropop singer, songwriter, and dancer from Warri who runs Confam Entertainment, known for "Ile Ijo" and "Chop My Money" with P-Square.
May Day
May Day (första maj, 1 May) combines the European spring festival with International Workers' Day, proclaimed by the Second International in 1889 and first marked by Swedish marches in 1890; a Swedish public holiday since 1939.
May Day Eve
May Day Eve is Nick Joaquin's 1947 short story (Philippine Free Press) about Agueda and Don Badoy Montiya, whose May Day mirror divination ritual in 1847 Spanish Manila foretells a disillusioned marriage; a canonical work of Philippine literature in English.
May Days
May Days refers to several distinct historical events: the Barcelona May Days of 1937 in the Spanish Civil War, the Prague Uprising of 5-9 May 1945, the May 1945 Constantinois insurrection in Algeria, and VE Day, 8 May 1945.
May December
May December is Todd Haynes's 2023 Netflix drama starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton, loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, about an actress researching a tabloid-scarred couple; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
May Fourth literature
May Fourth literature (五四文学) is the body of Chinese writing of roughly 1915–1925 that adopted vernacular baihua and Western models in a break with tradition.