May 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 May 2025
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Welcome to your akg-images preview for May 2025. Scroll down to find content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
May brings us African World Heritage Day, World Bee Day and World Redhead Day. It's also the 80th anniversary of the German Surrender, bringing the Second World War to an end in Europe.
Our featured source for May is renowned American photographer Tony Vaccaro, whose work covers a broad mixture of photojournalism, celebrities and fashion. Tony's photographic career began on the battlefields of WWII, and he later photographed for many top magazines, building an extensive collection of portraits of some of the most noted people of his generation.
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Featured Story: After VE Day - following the jubilant scenes of VE Day in May 1945, Europeans faced the monumental task of clearing up destroyed homes and cities. Across the continent, civilians dealt with displacement and chronic food shortages whilst searching desperately for missing loved ones.
May 2025
1 May: May Day / International Workers' Day
1 May: Joseph Goebbels dies - 80th anniversary
1 May: George Inness - 200th birthday anniversary
4 May: Thomas Henry Huxley - 200th birthday anniversary
5 May: Liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp - 80th anniversary
6 - 11 May: Prague Offensive, leading to the liberation of Czechoslovakia - 80th anniversary
8 May: German Surrender and Victory in Europe (VE) Day - 80th anniversary
11 May: Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, USA, Can)
12 May: Tate Modern opens - 25th anniversary
12 May: Helene Weigel - 125th birthday anniversary
13 May: Stevie Wonder - 75th birthday
13 May: Carlo Maratta - 400th birthday anniversary
13 - 17 May: Eurovision Song Contest
19 May: Malcolm X - 100th birthday anniversary
22 May: Naomi Campbell - 55th birthday
23 May: Heinrich Himmler dies - 80th anniversary
26 May: Memorial Day USA
31 May: Clint Eastwood - 95th birthday
June 2025
3 June: Tony Curtis - 100th birthday anniversary
3 June: Georges Bizet - 150th anniversary of his death
6 June: Thomas Mann - 150th birthday anniversary
8 June: Tim Berners-Lee - 70th birthday
14 June: Jörg Immendorff - 80th birthday anniversary
14 June: WWII France falls under German occupation - 85th anniversary
15 June: Father's Day (UK)
16 June: WWII Philippe Pétain installed as Chief of State of Vichy France - 85th anniversary
19 June: Juneteenth USA
21 June: Summer Solstice
24 June: Lord Herbert Kitchener - 175th birthday anniversary
25 June: Lord Louis Mountbatten - 125th birthday anniversary
25 June: Korean War begins - 75th anniversary
30 June - 13 July: Wimbledon Championships
July 2025
1 July: Debbie Harry - 80th birthday
1 July: Erik Satie - 100th anniversary of his death
2 July: Patrice Lumumba - 100th birthday anniversary
4 July: Independence Day USA
6 July: The Dalai Lama - 90th birthday
7 July: Ringo Starr - 85th birthday
10 July: Battle of Britain begins - 85th anniversary
11 July: Srebrenica Massacre - 30th anniversary
12 July: R. Buckminster Fuller - 130th birthday anniversary
13 July: Patrick Stewart - 85th birthday
14 July: Bastille Day
17 July: Potsdam Conference - 80th anniversary
17 July: Lovis Corinth - 100th anniversary of his death
18 July: Nelson Mandela Day
21 July: Oskar Moll - 150th birthday anniversary
26 July: Carl Jung - 150th birthday anniversary
29 July: Mikis Theodorakis - 100th birthday anniversary
29 July: Umberto I of Italy - 125th anniversary of his assassination
August 2025
4 August: Andrea della Robbia - 500th anniversary of his death
4 August: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - 125th birthday anniversary
6 August: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
9 August: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki - 80th anniversary
15 August: VJ Day, WW2 - 80th anniversary (UK)
15 August: Oscar Peterson - 100th birthday anniversary
18 August: Ford Motor Company Germany is founded - 100th anniversary
21 August: Jean-Baptiste Greuze - 300th birthday anniversary
23 August: Ernst Krenek - 125th birthday anniversary
25 August: Friedrich Nietzsche - 125th anniversary of his death
25 August: Matthew Webb becomes the first swimmer to cross the English Channel unaided - 150th anniversary
30 August: Antony Gormley - 75th birthday
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