May 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview

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.
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AKG414112 © Bildarchiv Pisarek / akg-imagesAKG4302771 © akg-images / East News / J. Berent-SzczecinskiAKG2141917 © akg-images

Tate Modern AKG8296771 © akg-images / VIEW / Grant SmithVE Day AKG221984 © akg-images / Paul Almasy

Stevie Wonder AKG10021011 © akg-images / UIG / marka/epsGeorge Innes AKG11124964 © akg-images

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

Tony Curtis AKG5433903 © Philippe Ledru / akg-imagesKorean War AKG5460109 © akg-images / Science Source

Georges Bizet AKG2186087 © akg-images / De Agostini Picture Lib. / A. Dagli OrtiArrival of the first German troops in Paris, June 1940. AKG10000358 © akg-images

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

The Dalai Lama. AKG6372991 © P. Deliss/ Godong / akg-imagesSrebrenica Massacre AKG9110330 © Emmanuel Ortiz / akg-images

Potsdam Conference AKG1574827 © akg-imagesOskar Moll AKG216130 © akg-images

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

Jean-Baptiste Greuze. AKG5060955 © akg-imagesChildren in Nagasaki, August 1945. AKG3992450 © akg-images

Angel of the North under construction, Gateshead, United Kingdom. Artist: Anthony Gormley, 1998. AKG8303004 © akg-images / VIEW / Sally-Ann NormanFriedrich Nietzsche. AKG9637 © akg-images

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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