May 8

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on May 8.

See also:  May,  Today in History,  movable May holidays,  possible May holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Daisy Day (Children's Hospital)
•  Deiic Literacy Day - May 8th 1998
•  Dog-Prodding (Gremlins)
•  2005:  Mother's Day
•  National Coconut Cream Pie Day
•  No Socks Day
•  V.E. Day (a/k/a Armistice Day)

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - May 08
•  Archangel Michael's Day (a/k/a Furry Day)
•  St. Wiro's Day (patron of Holland)

anniversaries

•  World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day - birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, founder of the worldwide Red Cross Movement (1828)
•  Coca-Cola invented (1886)

directories

May holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

Asia

•  Birthday of Lord Buddha - in Hong Kong

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

Europe

•  Stork Day - in Denmark
•  Furry Day (a/k/a Furry Dance) - in the UK

North America

Caribbean

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 128, with 237 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Tuesday
•  2002 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2003 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2004 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2005 A. D.:  Sunday

•  2006 A. D.:  Monday
•  2007 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2008 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2009 A. D.:  Friday
•  2010 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2011 A. D.:  Sunday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Spring
•  Southern hemisphere:  Autumn

zodiac

•  Taurus

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last edited Tuesday, March 09, 2010