📚 Month
What Happened in May — Daily History Calendar
May has 31 days and about 1233 recorded events. Tap any date to open its page.
- 1 May 1 After a ransomware attack by the group ShinyHunters, the education platform Canvas operated by private company Instructure, goes offline, affecting thousands of educational institutions. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 2 May 2 Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 3 May 3 Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 4 May 4 Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 5 May 5 The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 6 May 6 The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 7 May 7 The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force conduct surgical strikes code-named Operation SINDOOR on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam Attack that killed 26 people. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 8 May 8 The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 9 May 9 The May 9 riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 10 May 10 Start of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 11 May 11 Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. 33 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 12 May 12 Middle/end of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 13 May 13 An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 14 May 14 Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 15 May 15 Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is shot and critically injured while meeting with supporters at an event in Handlová. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 16 May 16 A catastrophic EF3 tornado kills five people and causes over $1 billion in damages in St. Louis, MO. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 17 May 17 A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 18 May 18 A shooting carried out by two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego results in the deaths of five people, including the perpetrators. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 19 May 19 A helicopter crash in Iran leaves 8 people dead, including the country's president Ebrahim Raisi & foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 20 May 20 Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 21 May 21 The Greenfield tornado kills five and injures 35 across rural Iowa, United States. Wind speeds in excess of 480 kilometres per hour (300 mph) are estimated from measurements for the third time in history. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 22 May 22 A gas explosion at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi, leaves at least 82 people dead. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 23 May 23 Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 24 May 24 A suicide bombing targeting a shuttle train in Quetta, Balochistan, killed at least 48 people and injured 98 others. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 25 May 25 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 26 May 26 65 people are injured when a car rams into a crowd on Water Street, near Liverpool F.C.'s Premier League trophy parade. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 27 May 27 Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 28 May 28 Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from the race with an engine issue in his first entry of the event. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 29 May 29 Tara Air Flight 197 crashes in Nepal's Mustang District, killing 22. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 30 May 30 Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25
- 31 May 31 An explosion at a Ta'ang National Liberation Army base kills 46 people. 40 events · 🎂 25 · 🕯️ 25