May 2008 Calendar - UN Cyberschoolbus

May 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
2001-2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World				1 National Holiday of Marshall Islands First guilty plea of international war crime (by Rwanda Prime Minister), Arusha,Tanzania 1998	2 Environmental Landmark: 80 nations agreed on total ban of ozone destructive chemicals 1989	3 National Holiday of Poland WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY since 1994
4 Peacekeeping success: UN Observer group monitored Chad-Libya border 1994	5 Historic Moment: Kofi Annan achieved agreement on Independence of East Timor, Geneva 1999	6 Long-range plan: Agenda for Development published by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1994	7 UN War Crimes Tribunal opened at The Hague 1996, first conviction Dusan Tadic 1997	8 Smallpox scourge eradicated by World Health Organization (WHO) two years after last case this date 1980	9 World Court case on Nuclear Tests in Pacific 1973	10 National Holiday of Israel Opening of Hague Appeal for Peace, The Netherlands 1999
11 Under Secretary-General Ralph Bunche achieved peaceful independence of Bahrain 1970	12 First Session of Commission on International Law 1947	13 Education for Development and Peace Conference, Kingston, Jamaica 1996	14 First drop in world illiteracy reported by UNESCO 1991	15 National Holiday of Paraguay INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES Stained-glass window 'Peace' by Marc Chagall dedicated in UN Meditation Room 1963	16 Universal Peace Union founded in Providence, RI, USA by Alfred Love 1866	17 National Holiday of Norway WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY in honor of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) founded 1865
18 Opening of the first Hague Peace Conference, called by Czar Nicolas of Russia, 1899	19 International Civil Service Commission 1975 Peacemaking success: UN guided Namibia to independence 1967	20 National Holiday of Cameroon UN agreement that Iraq can sell oil for food 1996	21 UNESCO's WORLD DAY FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT	22 National Holiday of Yemen Environmental landmark: Biodiversity Convention adopted, Nairobi 1992	23 70% Cambodians voted in UN-sponsored elections 1993 First Special Session on Disarmament at UN Headquarters, New York City 1978	24 National Holiday of Eritrea Rick Ballanger (1952-2000) UNA/UK Westminster education chairman, and the National Union of Teachers (NUT) distributed UN Calendars for Peace to schools in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, 2000
25 National Holiday of Argentina, Jordan Beginning of Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self- Governing Territories	26 National Holiday of Georgia International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided Thailand-Cambodia temple dispute 1961	27 Close of world's first conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan, 1994	28 National Holiday of Azerbaijan, Ethiopia Close of world conference on Law of the Sea, Geneva 1958	29 50th anniversary of International Court of Justice opinion on Genocide, 1951 Israel and Syria agreed to cease-fire on Golan Heights 1974	30 National Holiday of Croatia Trade embargo imposed on Yugoslavia by Security Council 1992	31 WORLD NO-TOBACCO DAY UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) established in the Syrian Golan Heights by the Security Council, 1974

The year 2002
of the Christian Calendar is:

56 in the United Nations era

1380 in the Persian calendar

1422 in the Muslim calendar

2545 in the Buddhist calendar

2754 in the old Roman calendar

5114 in the Mayan cycle

5762 in the Hebrew calendar

4699, the Year of the "Little Dragon" (Snake) in the Chinese calendar

This United Nations Calendar for Peace is a record of many of humankind's efforts to abolish war
and poverty and to establish a world of peace and prosperity for all, on this small planet.

Information for the UN Calendar of Peace 2002 provided
by UNA-USA Connecticut and UNA-UK Westminster, England.

May 2008

2001-2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World