Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for May 1, 2022

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• Beltane
• Global Love Day
• International Bereaved Mothers Day
• International Permaculture Day
• International Worker’s Day
• May Day
• National Fitness Day
• National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day
• 1328: Wars of Scottish Independence end:The English Parliament ratified the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in which England recognized Scotland as an independent kingdom, bringing and end to the Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1711: The Peace of Szatmar between the Hapsburg Emperor, Hungarian Estates, and Kuruc rebels was signed bringing an end to Rákóczi’s War of Independence, which had lasted nearly 8 years
• 1866: The American Equal Rights Association formed
• 1867: The Era of Reconstruction began in the Southern US, including efforts to register black voters
• 1886: A US general strike for an 8-hour working day began
• 1908: The world’s most intense rainshower (2.47″ in 3 minutes) on record to date occurred at Portobelo, Panama
• 1919: Indonesia’s Mount Kelud erupted killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
• 1923: Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm directed Nazis in an attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrations
• 1926: British coal miners went on strike
• 1928: 6 children died and 10 were injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
• 1929: A strike by farm workers began in East-Groningen
• 1929: Police killed 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
• 1934: The Philippine legislature accepted a US proposal for independence
• 1940: 140 Palestinian Jews died as German planes bombed their ship
• 1941: US savings bonds went on sale to help finance the war effort
• 1942: Radio Orange called for defiance of the order to wear “Jewish star”
• 1943: SS General Hanns Albin Rauter announced that all Jews would be ‘removed’ from the occupied Netherlands
• 1943: Food rationing began in the United States during World War II
• 1943: The German Wehrmacht was deployed to break Dutch strikes
• 1946: The 3 year Pilbara strike by Indigenous Australians began
• 1948: Idaho Senator Glenn Taylor was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for trying to enter a meeting by a door marked “for Negroes”
• 1950: The Mayor of Brussels reluctantly banned the May Day parade
• 1950: New marriage laws went into force in the People’s Republic of China
• 1951: 600,000 people marched for peace and freedom in Germany
• 1959: West Germany introduced a 5 day work week
• 1961: Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba
• 1961: Tanganyika was granted full internal self-government by Great Britain
• 1963: Gloria Steinem’s exposé , “A Bunny’s Tale”, on the working conditions for waitresses (bunnies) at New York City’s famed Playboy Club, was published in “Show” magazine
• 1977: Dozens of people were killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, in clashes between leftist groups during Labour Day celebrations, though most of the deaths were caused by the police intervention
• 1978: The first African American mayor of New Orleans, Ernest Nathan Morial, was inaugurated
• 1979: Home rule was introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat aka Greenland
• 1979: Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, became self-governing
• 1985: US President Reagan ended a trade embargo against Nicaragua
• 1991: The Angolan Civil War came to an end
• 1994: Tornado and hail storms began hitting Jiangxi China, that would kill 95 people over three days
• 1997: Tasmania became the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality
• 2007: The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurred, in which the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of force against a May Day pro-immigration rally appeared to be excessive as many people, including members of the media, were injured
• 2009: Same-sex marriage was legalized in Sweden
• 2009: Carol Ann Duffy was appointed British Poet Laureate, the first Scot and first woman Laureate
• 2013: 16 people were killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia
• 2018: Violent May Day protests in Paris by the Black Bloc group resulted in 200 arrests
• 2018: Scotland became the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol
• 2019: Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions in London, however he is still in prison pending extradition to the US to face charges there
• 2020: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced a ban on 1,500 types of assault-style weapons in response to a recent Nova Scotia shooting
• 2020: Armed protesters against stay-at-home-orders gathered at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as Governor Gretchen Whitmer reinstated a State of Emergency because of the COVID-19 pandemic
• 2021: India became the first country to record more than 400,000 (401,993) new COVID-19 cases in one day
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including May 1, 2022

• Festival of Ridvan (Baháʼí holy festival) (April 21-May 2)
• Holocaust Remembrance Week (April 24-May 1)
• Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7)
• Flexible Work Arrangement Week (May 1-7)
• International Building Safety Week (May 1-7)
• National Alcohol & Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week (May 1-7)
• National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week (May 1-7)
• National Herb Week (May 1-7)
• National Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 1-7)
• National Small Business Week (May 1-7)
  
  

May Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Ramadan (Islamic Holy Month) (April 2 – May 2)
• Arthritis Awareness Month
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• Asthma Awareness Month
• Better Hearing and Speech Month
• Better Sleep Month
• Breathe Easy Month
• Clean Air Month
• Digestive Diseases Awareness Month
• Electromagnetic Radiation Awareness Month
• Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
• Food Allergy Awareness Month
• Fungal Infection Awareness Month
• Gardening for Wildlife Month
• Healthy Vision Month/UV Safety
• High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
• Home Schooling Awareness Month
• Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
• International Respect for Chickens Month
• International Victorious Woman Month
• Internet and E-Commerce Services Month
• Jewish American Heritage Month
• Labor History Month
• Lupus Awareness Month
• Lyme Disease Awareness Month
• MCS Awareness Month
• Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
• Mental Health Month
• National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
• National Celiac Disease Awareness Month
• National Community Action Month
• National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
• National Hepatitis Awareness Month
• National Meditation Month
• National Mental Health Month
• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
• National Recommitment Month
• National Stroke Awareness Month
• National Tuberous Scierosis Awareness Month
• Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month
• Neurofibromatosis Month
• Revise Your Work Schedule Month
• Small Business Month
• Spiritual Literacy Month
• Syringomyelia Awareness Month
• Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month
• Trauma Awareness Month
• Ultraviolet Awareness Month