May 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 May 2024
Welcome to your akg-images May preview with content ideas for the coming months and albums of supporting images.
What does this month have in store for us? African World Heritage Day, World Bee Day, and World Redhead Day are some of the days observed in May. The National Gallery Bicentenary celebrations also begin on the 10th, launching a year-long series of events and exhibitions.
We would like to remind you that our office will be closed on 6th and 27th May for the UK Bank Holidays.
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Featured Story:
1944 Liberation of Paris, by René Zuber. August 2024 will mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris. To mark this occasion, we offer an exclusive selection of photographs, almost all previously unpublished, for regional exclusive licensing on a first come, first served basis.
May 2024
1 May: May Day / International Worker's Day
4 May: Star Wars Day
5 May: Tyrone Power - 110th birthday anniversary
7 May: The Eurovision Song Contest begins
10 May: National Gallery Bicentenary celebrations begin
10 May: Fred Astaire - 125th birthday anniversary
10 May: Katsushika Hokusai - 175th anniversary of his death
10 May: Louis XV of France - 250th anniversary of his death
11 May: Salvador Dali - 120th birthday anniversary
11 May: Jean-Léon Gérôme - 200th birthday anniversary
12 May: Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, USA, Can)
21 May: Henri Rousseau - 180th birthday anniversary
22 May: Mary Cassatt - 180th birthday anniversary
27 May: Jawaharlal Nehru - 60th anniversary of his death
27 May: Memorial Day USA
June 2024
3 June: Franz Kafka - 100th anniversary of his death
5 June: Ronald Reagan - 20th anniversary of his death
6 June: Normandy landings / D-Day (colourised WW2 selection here) - 80th anniversary
6 June Alexander Pushkin - 225th birthday anniversary
6 June: Diego Velazquez - 425th birthday anniversary
8 June: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published - 75th anniversary
11 June: Kosovo War ends - 25th anniversary
12 June: George H W Bush - 100th birthday anniversary
20 June: Summer Solstice
22 June: Meryl Streep - 75th birthday
25 June: Michael Jackson - 15th anniversary of his death
26 June: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - 200th birthday anniversary
27 June: Giorgio Vasari - 450th anniversary of his death
28 June: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - 110th anniversary
July 2024
1 July: Wimbledon Tennis tournament begins
1 July: Sydney Pollack - 90th birthday anniversary
4 July: Eva Marie Saint - 100th birthday
4 July: Marie Curie - 90th anniversary of her death
4 July: Independence Day USA
11 July: Robert the Bruce - 750th birthday anniversary
12 July: Eugène Boudin - 200th birthday anniversary
13 July: Frida Kahlo - 70th anniversary of her death
14 July: Bastille Day
15 July: The Rosetta Stone is discovered - 225th anniversary
17 July: Ludwig Hohlwein - 150th birthday anniversary
21 July: Ernest Hemingway - 125th birthday anniversary
26 July: Olympics Games scheduled to begin in Paris
27 July: Ferruccio Busoni - 100th anniversary of his death
August 2024
1 August: The Warsaw Uprising - 80th anniversary
2 August: James Baldwin - 100th birthday anniversary
3 August: Joseph Conrad - 100th anniversary of his death
11 August: Alcatraz Island opens as a federal penitentiary - 90th anniversary
12 August: Robert Southey - 250th birthday anniversary
13 August: Alfred Hitchcock - 125th birthday anniversary
14 - 25 August - Liberation of Paris - 80th anniversary, see also our exclusive images of the Liberation of Paris by René Zuber
16 August: James Cameron - 70th birthday
23 August: The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed - 85th anniversary
25 August: George Stubbs - 300th birthday anniversary
26 August: Charles Lindbergh - 50th anniversary of his death
28 August: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 275th birthday anniversary
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