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If your country celebrates a special day, please let me know so that I can include it on the calendar.   If you can include a brief explanation, I will add it too.   Thanks.
1.    May Day
        Mother Goose Day
        1-8 Safe Kids Day
        Bobby Ann Mason
        Joseph Heller

2.     2-6 Official Share a Hug Week
         2-9  Reading is Fun Week
         Nurses Week
        Astronomy Day
        Brother and Sister Day
        Susan Shreve
        Dr. Benjamin Spock      

3.    WordSmith Day
        3-11 Pet Week
        Walt Whitman

4.      National Day of Remembrance-The Netherlands*****
         ******This is a day to remember all those who died during WW II and other wars. It is celebrated quietly at war memorials around the country.  At 8 PM, the country joins together for 2 minutes of silence. 
        
        Teachers Day
        Renewal Day
        George Will
        Heloise
        Niccolo Machiavelli
                     
5.     Cinco de Mayo
        Cartoonist Day
        Todd Strasser
        Karl Marx
        Christopher Morley

6.     National Day of Prayer
        No Diet Day
        Nurses Day
        Teacher Appreciation Day
        Gaston Leroux
        Sigmund Freud
        L. Frank Baum
        Henry David Thoreau

7.     Military Spouse Day
         Robert Browning
          Happy 84th Birthday to Inkognitoh's Aunty May!

8.      International Red Cross Day
        Senior Citizen Day
        V-E Day
        Peter Benchley
        Thomas Pynchon
       Gustave Flaubert

9.      Mother's Day
        9-15 Police Week
        Sir James M. Barrie

10.     Small Business Day

11.      Eat What You Want Day

12.      Limerick Day
           Edward Lear
           Dante Rossetti
           Farley Mowat
           Katherine Hepburn

13.      Francine Pascal
          Daphne du Maurier
         Karl Marx     

14.    Reciptionist Day

15.    Peace Officers Memorial Day
          World Family Day
          Hug a Cat Day
          Armed Forces Day
         L. Frank Baum
         Katherine Anne Porter
         Emily Dickinson

16.        Biographers Day
             Love a Tree Day

17.   Pack Rat Day
         James Agee

18.     International Museum Day
         Visit Your Relatives Day
         Victor Hugo
        Nathaniel Hawthorne

19.     Circus Day
         Nora Ephron

20.     Good Neighbor Day
        Honore de Balzac

21.      National Waiter/Waitress Day
          Bike to Work Day
         Harold Robbins

22.      Maritime Day
        Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
        Ruth Young
        Arnold Lobel

23.      EMT Week
        Jazz Week
        MItch Albom

24.     Victoria Day-Canada
          Mary Stoltz
       Margaret Wise Brown

25.      Tap Dance Day
        Missing Children Day
        Betty Levine
        Robert Ludlum
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.     Senior Health and Fitness Day
        Samuel Pepys

27.      Dashiell Hammett
          Tony Hillerman

28.      Ian Fleming
          Anne Bronte     

29.       G.K. Chesterton

30.     Cornelia Otis Skinner
          Voltaire
          Christopher Marlowe

31.     Memorial Day-US
          Walt Whitman
         Adele Davis