***Dates to Remember***

Things you might find interesting!

• May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is also a month within the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere, and of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
• In any given year, no other month starts on the same day of the week as May.
• In many countries, May Day is May 1. This is celebrated as Labor Day in many countries.
• In Germany it is an old custom to plant a "tree of May" to honor someone. Often young men set up an adorned birch in front of their girlfriend's house in the night before May 1.
• Cinco de Mayo or the Batalla de Puebla is celebrated in Mexico on May 5.
• On May 12, International Nurses Day is celebrated.
• May 12 is also International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND). These diseases include Neurofibromatosis, Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS)/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
• The Indianapolis 500 is held on the Sunday before Memorial Day.

(The above Trivia is from wikipedia.org)

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