May 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
2 May 2023
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Welcome to your akg-images May preview, full of content ideas for the coming months, with albums of supporting images.
The eyes of the world will be on the UK in early May as the coronation of Charles III and Camilla takes place. We have a selection of images of historical coronations of British monarchs to warm you up before the big day. May also brings us World Bee Day.
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May 2023
1 May: May Day/International Worker's Day
4 May: Star Wars Day
6 May: Coronation of Charles III and Camilla
6 May: Tony Blair - 70th birthday
7 May: Anne Baxter - 100th anniversary of her birth
9-13 May: Eurovision Song Contest
14 May: British Mandate of Palestine is terminated, creating the state of Israel - 75th anniversary
14 May: Mother's Day - US, Australia, Canada and other countries
14 May: Skylab is launched into Earth orbit - 50th anniversary
16 May - Operation Chastise/Dam Buster Raid - 80th anniversary
19 May- Grace Jones - 75th birthday
22 May: Fritz von Uhde - 175th anniversary of his birth
25 May: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 220th anniversary of his birth
26-27 May: 24 Hours of Le Mans - 100th anniversary
27 May: Henry Kissinger - 100th anniversary of his birth
28 May: György Ligeti - 100th anniversary of his birth
29 May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest - 70th anniversary
June 2023
2 June: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - 70th anniversary
6 June: Louis Lumière - 75th anniversary of his death
7 June: Paul Gauguin - 175th anniversary of his birth
15 June: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 85th anniversary of his death
16 June: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space - 60th anniversary
18 June: Father's Day (except Australia and New Zealand)
19 June: Blaise Pascal - 400th anniversary of his birth
19 June: Juneteenth USA
21 June: Summer Solstice
22 June: Windrush Day - 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush
22 June: Erich Maria Remarque - 125th anniversary of his birth
24 June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift - 75th anniversary
25 June: Sam Francis - 100th anniversary of his birth
July 2023
1 July: British Library was founded - 50 years
3 July: Wimbledon Tennis tournament begins
4 July: Independence Day USA
5 July: Founding of the NHS - 75th anniversary
8 July: Artemisia Gentileschi - 430th anniversary of her birth
8 July: Sir Henry Raeburn - 200th anniversary of his death
8 July: Franz Xaver Winterhalter - 150th anniversary of his death
13 July: Hollywood sign is inaugurated; "HOLLYWOODLAND" - 100 years
16 July: Sir Joshua Reynolds - 300th anniversary of his birth
17 July: Romanov family are interred in St Catherine Chapel - 25th anniversary
26 July: Mick Jagger - 80th birthday
30 July: Otto von Bismarck - 125th anniversary of his death
30 July: Henry Moore - 125th anniversary of his birth
31 July: Erich Heckel - 140th anniversary of his birth
August 2023
2 August: Shimon Peres - 100th anniversary of his birth
5 August: Karl Hagemeister - 90th anniversary of his death
10 August: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Construction begins on Cologne Cathedral - 775th anniversary
16 August: Madonna - 65th birthday
23 August: Battle of Kursk ends - 80th anniversary
26 August: Lee De Forest - 150th anniversary of his birth
29 August: Richard Attenborough - 100th anniversary of his birth
30 August: Charles Bronson - 20th anniversary of his death
30 August: Jacques Louis David - 275th anniversary of his birth
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