NIH Diversity Calendar - May 2017

May: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month & Jewish American Heritage Month

  • 1st
    Law Day
  • 1st
    International Worker’s Day
  • 1st
    Yom HaAtzmaut (Jewish)
  • 3rd
    World Press Freedom Day
  • 5th
    Cinco de Mayo
  • 6th
    National Nurses Day
  • 6th
    Orthodox
  • 6th
    National Nurses Day
  • 10th
    Buddha Day
  • 14th
    Lag B’Omer (Jewish)
  • 14th
    Mother's Day
  • 21st
    World Day for Cultural Diversity
  • 23th
    Declaration of the Bab (Baha’i))
  • 24th
    Isra and Mi’raj (Islamic)
  • 25th
    Ascension Day
  • 25th
    National Missing Children’s Day
  • 26th
    Ramadan (Islamic) (May 26 - June 25)
  • 29th
    Ascension of Baha’U’llah (Baha’i) (May 28 - 29)
  • 29th
    Memorial Day
  • 30th
    Shavuot (Jewish)