May observances

annual gay rights holiday

Hindu holy day

celebration of the Bengali New Year

public holiday in Chile commemorating the sea battle of Iquique

International awareness day

international day of community service

Saturday 6 days after Easter Sunday. Sometimes confused with Holy Saturday

annual observance on 22 May to celebrate goth culture

Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain, and other countries among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian holy day of Pentecost. It falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' disciples (as described in Acts 2). Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three holiday weeks for the medieval villein; on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week, which marked a pause in the agricultural year. Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in Britain until 1971

annual event in Cambodia

national holiday in Eritrea

Youm-e-Takbir (; lit. The day of greatness) is celebrated as a national day in Pakistan on 28 May in commemoration of Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests. The nuclear tests made Pakistan the seventh nation to possess nuclear weapons and the first in the Muslim world.

day observed by the United Nations

May 25 Designated by US President Ronald Reagan

300px|thumb|right|Votive relief showing Bendis (right, identified by her Phrygian cap) approached by eight athletes and two officials. The torch in the hands of the first official shows that the athletes were part of a torch relay team. The Bendidia was an ancient Athenian festival celebrating the Thracian goddess Bendis. It was celebrated on the 19th day of the month of Thargelion (late May, in the Gregorian calendar), and was introduced in 429 BC. The festival took place in Piraeus. It was rare for ancient Athens to permit foreign residents of the city to worship their own gods; the cult of

Action Day

public holiday in Kazakhstan

public holiday in Lebanon and Syria commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut on May 6, 1916 by Jamal Pasha

Annual observance

Canadian public holiday