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[|Middle Grade Book Trailers] || =Surfing the Calendar= || as Nellie Bly, Birthday || May 5, 1864 || Brothers Performance || May 19, 1884 || Episode I || May 19, 1999 || Nonstop Transatlantic Flight || May 20-21, 1927 ||
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 * National Physical Fitness and Sports Month || May ||
 * National Youth Traffic Safety Month || May ||
 * Sudoku First Published as Number Place in Dell Puzzle Magazine || May, 1979 ||
 * May Day || May 1, 2011 ||
 * Mother Goose Day || May 1, 2011 ||
 * Holocaust Day || May 1, 2011 ||
 * Whale Awareness Day (in Massachusetts) || May 1, 2011 ||
 * International Astronomy Week || May 2-8, 2011 ||
 * Children's Book Week || May 2-8, 2011 ||
 * First Freedom Ride || May 4, 1961 ||
 * Elizabeth Jane Cochran's, Known
 * Cinco de Mayo || May 5, 2011 ||
 * Cartoonist Day || May 5, 2011 ||
 * Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower || May 5-6, 2011 ||
 * Space Day || May 6, 2011 ||
 * Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Premiere || May 7, 1824 ||
 * International Migratory Bird Day || May 8, 2011 ||
 * Mother's Day Poems || May 8, 2011 ||
 * Mother's Day || May 8, 2011 ||
 * Mother's Day (postcard) || May 8, 2011 ||
 * Central and Union Pacific Railroads Meet || May 10, 1869 ||
 * Richard Feynman's Birthday || May 11, 1918 ||
 * Edward Lear's Birthday (Celebrated as Limerick Day) || May 12, 1812 ||
 * Edward Lear's Limericks || May 12, 1812 ||
 * Start of California Gold Rush || May 12, 1848 ||
 * National Windmill Day (Holland) || May 14, 2011 ||
 * First permanent British colony Established in Jamestown, Virginia || May 14, 1607 ||
 * Lewis & Clark Leave St. Louis || May 14, 1804 ||
 * Major Lassen Peak Volcanic Eruption || May 14, 1915 ||
 * L. Frank Baum's Birthday || May 15, 1856 ||
 * Discovery of Largest Prime Number Known to Man || May 15, 2004 ||
 * Sue Debuts at Field Museum || May 17, 2000 ||
 * Karol Wojtyla Birthday (Pope John Paul II) || May 18, 1920 ||
 * Major Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption || May 18, 1980 ||
 * Circus Day, Anniversary of First Ringling
 * Premiere of Star Wars:
 * Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, CA || May 19-22, 2011 ||
 * Charles Lindbergh Flies Historic Solo
 * Amelia Earhart's Atlantic Crossing || May 20, 1932 ||
 * Weights and Measures Day || May 20, 2011 ||
 * Most Powerful Earthquake of the 20th Century Struck Chile || May 22, 1960 ||
 * Hurricane Preparedness Week || May 22-28, 2011 ||
 * Margaret Wise Brown's Birthday || May 23, 1910 ||
 * World Turtle Day || May 23, 2011 ||
 * National Backyard Games Week || May 23-30, 2011 ||
 * Cellophane Tape Patented || May 27, 1930 ||
 * Golden Gate Bridge Opened || May 27, 1937 ||
 * Sojourner Truth Gives "Ain't I Woman?" Speech || May 28-29, 1851 ||
 * John F. Kennedy's Birthday || May 29, 1917 ||
 * National Spelling Bee Week || May 29-Jun 3, 2011 ||
 * President Woodrow Wilson Proclaims June 14 Flag Day || May 30, 1916 ||
 * First Daily American Newspaper Published || May 30, 1783 ||
 * Memorial Day || May 30, 2011 ||
 * First US copryight law passed || May 31, 1790 ||
 * Walt Whitman's Birthday || May 31, 1819 ||
 * Mark Felt Reveals Himself as Watergate's Deep Throat || May 31, 2005 ||
 * **More Surfing the Calendar** ||