May 2013

mon	tue	wed	thu	fri
29	30	1 Get Caught Reading Month	2 1945: Berlin Surrendered	3 1469: Political Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born
6 Teacher Appreciation Week	7 1915: Lusitania Sank	8 1945: WWII ends in Europe	9 1994: Nelson Mandela chosen to be S. Africa's First Black President	10 Mother's Day (observed Sunday, May 12th)
13 Celebrate National Children's Book Week	14 1804: Lewis & Clark set out for Pacific Coast	15 1940: McDonald's opens its first restaurant	16 1929: First Academy Awards	17 1954: Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education
20 1927: Charles Lindbergh’s first transatlantic flight	21 1932: Theodore Roosevelt Island Established	22 1844: American Painter Mary Cassatt born	23 1995: First Version of Java programming language released	24 1883: Brooklyn Bridge Opens
27 Memorial Day	28 1830: Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act	29 1453: Constantinople falls to the Ottomans	30 1431: Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake	31 1819: American writer Walt Whitman born

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