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Last Updated on Tuesday, May 01, 2012 at 2:03 PM

May is: National ALS Awareness Month; National Arthritis Month; Bicycle Safety Month; Get Caught Reading Month; National Teen Self-Esteem Month; National Physical Fitness and Sports Month; National Meditation Month.

Also this month:

National Tourism Week (May 5-13); Teacher Appreciation Week (May 7-11); National Police Week (May 13-19); National Transportation Week (May 13-19); National Women’s Health Week (May 13-19); Reading is Fun Week (May 13-19); Salvation Army Week (May 14-18); National Safe Boating Week (May 19-25).

138th Kentucky Oaks (May 4); 138th Kentucky Derby (May 5); Cinco de Mayo (May 5); World Red Cross Day (May 6); National Teacher Appreciation Day (May 8); National School Nurse Day (May 9); Child Care Provider Day (May 11); Mother’s Day (May 13); Armed Forces Day (May 19); Primary Election Day (May 22); Memorial Day (May 28).

On this day:

Empire State Building dedicated (May 1, 1931); Martin Luther King Jr. makes “I Have a Dream” speech (May 3, 1963); Four students killed at Kent State University during a protest (May 4, 1970); Germany’s Hindenburg burst into flames; killing 36 (May 6, 1937); Britain’s Lusitania torpedoed, killing 1;198 (May 7, 1915); Smallpox vaccine developed (May 14, 1796); Presidential hopeful George Wallace shot and paralyzed on campaign trail (May 15, 1972); Aristides wins first Kentucky Derby (May 17, 1875); Mount Saint Helens erupts (May 18, 1980); Microsoft antitrust lawsuit filed (May 18, 1998); Ringling Brothers circus premiers (May 19, 1884); Charles Lindbergh leaves New York on light to Paris (May 20, 1927); Amelia Earhart becomes first female to fly solo across the Atlantic (May 20, 1932); Clara Barton founds American Red Cross (May 21, 1881); Golden Gate bridge opens (May 27, 1937); Sir Edmund Hillary first to reach Mt. Everest summit (May 29, 1953); Lincoln Memorial dedicated (May 30, 1922).

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KET EncycloMedia
This Internet-based comprehensive learning service is free to Kentucky public schools. It is the result of a partnership between Kentucky Educational Television and the Kentucky Department of Education. It offers teachers and students more than 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips and thousands of digital images, all searchable by keyword, content area, grade level and Kentucky academic standards.

Kentucky Teacher

The Kentucky Department of Education keeps people informed about the good things happening in Kentucky schools through its professional development publication, "Kentucky Teacher."

Online KDE Bookstore
Buying publications, compact discs and videotapes about the state's education system has been made simpler by the opening of the Online KDE Bookstore.

For Parents
The Kentucky Department of Education has a Web site, "For Parents," that gives parents of Kentucky schoolchildren one-stop access to education information, resources and "ParentInfo" e-mail updates.

Scholarship information
Find helpful scholarship information and tips to avoid scholarship scams.

For more information contact:

Susan Riddell
500 Mero Street, 6th floor CPT
Frankfort, KY 40601

Phone: 502-564-2000 x4621

susan.riddell@education.ky.gov

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Born this month:

May 1 – Calamity Jane, frontier adventuress

May 3 – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer

May 4 – Audrey Hepburn, actress

May 5 – Karl Marx, founder of modern communism

May 6 – Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst

May 8 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd president

May 10 – Fred Astaire, dancing actor

May 11 – Salvador Dali, artist

May 12 – Florence Nightingale, nurse

May 14 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist

May 19 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader

May 19 – Malcolm X, activist

May 25 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, author

May 26 – Isadora Duncan, interpretive dancer

May 26 – Sally Ride, astronaut

May 27 – Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state

May 29 – Patrick Henry, said “Give me liberty or give me death.”

May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President

May 30 – Joan of Arc, French heroine

May 31 – Walt Whitman, author