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Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer. He is co-founder and board member of, solar sail spacecraft development project, Breakthrough Starshot.
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
On 16 May, the USA celebrates its National Day of the Sea-Monkeys
The 17th of May stands since 2005 for the World Hypertension Day.
The importance of bees as pollinators for biodiversity and food security is fundamental to humanity. The General Assembly of the United Nations has declared May 20 as World Bee Day.
According to US radio preacher Harold Egbert Camping (1921 - 2013), the beginning of the end of the world should begin on 21 May 2011. Fortunately a wrong prognosis, which caused many US-Americans to celebrate this date since then omitted as world doom day and/or rapture party day.
Star Wars fans naturally celebrate 21 May as Talk Like Yoda Day.