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May

• 22: Lee Jong-wook
  
• 21: Katherine Dunham
  
• 19: Freddie Garrity
  
• 17: Eric Forth
  
• 11: Floyd Patterson
  
• 10: Aleksandr Zinovyev
  
• 10: Soraya
  
• 10: A. M. Rosenthal
  
• 7: Richard Carleton
  
• 5: Naushad
  
• 3: Pramod Mahajan
  
• 3: Earl Woods
  
• 2: Louis Rukeyser
  

Recent

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George Bush
  

Ongoing

• Abramoff scandal
  
• Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak
  
• Black sites scandal
  
• CIA leak grand jury investigation
  
• Cole Inquiry
  
• Demonstrations in Nepal
  
• Formation of a new Iraqi government
  
• Horn of Africa food crisis
  
• Immigration law debates in the US
• Iran's nuclear program
  
• Malawi food crisis
  
• Montenegrin independence campaign
  
• North Indian cyclone season
  
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  
• Pacific hurrricane season
  
• Pacific typhoon season
  
• São Paulo violence
  
• Southern Hemisphere cyclone season
  

• Acholiland insurgency
  
• Arab-Israeli conflict (Al-Aqsa Intifada)
  
• East African War
  • Chadian-Sudanese conflict
    
  • Darfur conflict in Sudan
    
• Iraq War
  
• Ituri conflict in the DR Congo
  
• Ivorian Civil War
  
• Nepal Civil War
  
• Second Chechen War
  
• South Thailand insurgency
  

Upcoming - May

• 28: Colombia, President
  
• 28 and 29: Italy, Municipal and Sicilian
  
• 31: Montserrat, President
  
• 31: South Korea, Local government
  

Upcoming - June

• 2 - 3: Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
  
• 4: San Marino, Parliament
  
• 4: Peru, Executive runoff
  

Results - April

• 19: Thailand, Legislature (Upper house)
  
• 21: Haiti, Parliament (2nd Round)
  
• 23: Hungary, Parliament (2nd Round)
  
• 27: Scotland, Moray by-election
  
• 30: Laos, Parliamentary
  

Results - May

• 3: Chad, President
  
• 4: England, Local government
  
• 6: Singapore, General Election
  
• 11: India, State Assembly Elections
  
  • Assam, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
    
• 6 - 13: Fiji, General Election
  
• 14: Comoros, Federal president
  
• 16: Dominican Republic, Legislature
  
• 21: Montenegro, independence referendum
  
• 21: Cyprus, Legislature
  

Upcoming

• Israel: Mordechai Vanunu
  
• Libya: Benghazi Six
  
• U.S.: Conrad Black
  
• U.S.: José Padilla
  
• U.S.: Lewis "Scooter" Libby
  
• U.S.: Steven L. Jordan
  

Ongoing

• Chile: Alberto Fujimori (extradition)
  
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet
  
• Ethiopia: 111 defendants, including leaders of the CUD and journalists, for charges related to the 2005 elections.
  
• Iraq: Iraqi Special Tribunal
  
  • Saddam Hussein, among others
    
• Netherlands: ICC
  
  • Thomas Lubanga
    
• Netherlands: ICTY
  
• Russia: Nur-Pashi Kulayev
  
• Sierra Leone: SCfSL
  
  • Charles Taylor
    
• UK: Leo O'Connor & David Keogh
  
• U.S.: Brian Nichols
  
• U.S.: Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling
  
• U.S.: Tom DeLay
  

May

• 24: Independence Day (Eritrea)
  
• 24: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Bulgaria)
  
• 25: Ascension Thursday (Western Christianity)
  
• 25: May Revolution Day (Argentina)
  
• 25: Liberation Day (Lebanon)
  
• 25: African Liberation Day
  
• 26: Jerusalem Day (Israel)
  
• 26: National Sorry Day (Australia)
  
• 26: Mother's Day (Poland)
  
• 27: Children's Day (Nigeria)
  
• 28: Republic Day (Armenia, Azerbaijan)
  
• 29: Memorial Day (United States)
  
• 29: Oak Apple Day (United Kingdom)
  
• 29: Democracy Day (Nigeria)
  
• 29: Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day (Fiji)
  
• 31: World No Tobacco Day
  

June

• 1: International Children's Day
  
• 1: Madaraka Day (Kenya)
  
• 2 - 3: Shavuot (Judaism)
  

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