List of Important Days and Dates of May (National and International)

1-May : Workers' Day (International Labour Day), Maharashtra Day

2-May : (1st Sunday of May) World Laughter Day

3-May : Press Freedom Day

4-May : (1st Tuesday of May) World Asthma Day, Coal Miners' Day, International Firefighters Day, Death Anniversary of Tipu Sultan

7-May : World Athletics Day, Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti

8-May : World Red Cross Day, World Thalassaemia Day

9-May : (2nd Sunday of May) Mother's Day, Surdas Jayanti, Ramanujacharya Jayanti, Shankaracharya Jayanti, Birth Anniversary of Gopal Krishna Gokhale

11-May : National Technology Day

12-May : International Nurses Day

15-May : International Day of the Family, Birth Anniversary of Sukhdev

17-May : World Telecommunication Day, World Hypertension Day

18-May : World AIDS Vaccine Day, International Museum Day

21-May : National Anti-Terrorism Day, National Endangered Species Day (Third Friday in May), Death Anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi

22-May : International Day for Biological Diversity, Armed Forces Day (Third Saturday of the May)

24-May : Commonwealth Day

25-May : National Memorial Day (last Monday of May)

28-May : Birth Anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

31-May : Anti-tobacco Day