Start of Schitzophrenia Awareness Week (on until 29 May)

Start of Food Allergy Awareness Week (until May 29)

World Turtle Day

Anniversary of:
• US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin announcing his invention of bifocals (1785)
• Mao Zedong starting the Great Leap Forward movement in China (1958)
• the Good Friday Agreement being accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland (1998)
• Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) re-election in a landslide (2019)

• 2021 – Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
• 2022 – Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1980 – Ben Ross, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 – Gracie Otto, Australian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter