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