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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2019.

Daily events

Wednesday 1st May 2019

• Klagenfurt / Austria : In the final of the Cup of the Austrian Football Association , FC Red Bull Salzburg defeated SK Rapid Wien 2-0.
• Cologne / Germany : In the final of the women's DFB Cup , VfL Wolfsburg beat SC Freiburg 1-0 .
• London / United Kingdom : Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson is dismissed; he is succeeded by Penny Mordaunt .
• Peterborough / United Kingdom : For the first time since the relevant law came into force in 2015, Fiona Onasanya, a member of the British House of Commons, has lost his mandate through a voting procedure .
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  The Japanese Crown Prince and New Tennō Naruhito (2018)
  Tokyo / Japan : Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the Japanese chrysanthemum throne . A new era begins , the Reiwa period .

Thursday May 2nd 2019

• Nicosia / Cyprus : Justice Minister Ionas Nikolaou resigns. He takes on the political responsibility for an unsolved series of murders.

Friday 3rd May 2019

• Germany : The Earth Overshoot Day in Germany fell on May 3rd this year.
• Berlin / Germany : Awarding of the German Film Prize
• Hockenheim / Germany : On the Hockenheimring which begins 33 season of the DTM .

Saturday 4th May 2019

• Bangkok / Thailand : Vajiralongkorn is king Rama X. crowned .
• Vienna / Austria : Michael Chalupka is elected as the new bishop of the Evangelical Church AB . He will succeed Michael Bünker , who will retire in September 2019.

Sunday 5th May 2019

• Moscow / Russia : In a failed emergency landing at Sheremetyevo airport , a Sukhoi Superjet 100 catches fire, killing 41 people.
• Niamey / Niger : At least 58 people are killed in the explosion of a tanker truck near the airport .
• Panama City / Panama : The PRD -Politiker Laurentino Cortizo is the new president of the country selected .
• Skopje / North Macedonia : In the presidential election , the social democratic candidate Stevo Pendarovski prevails against the university professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova , who is supported by the national conservative VMRO-DPMNE , in the runoff election.

Monday 6th May 2019

• Ankara / Turkey : The high electoral committee declares the mayoral election in Istanbul on March 31, 2019 , in which the CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu prevailed by a narrow margin against Binali Yıldırım from the ruling AKP , as invalid and orders it to be repeated.
• London / United Kingdom : The first child of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is born.
• Paris / France : At the end of the multi-day IPBES conference on species protection , the World Biodiversity Council publishes the global report on biodiversity and threats to global biodiversity. As a result, up to a million species are threatened with extinction.
• Sheffield / United Kingdom : With a victory over the Scottish John Higgins , the Englishman Judd Trump wins the snooker world championship for the first time .

Tuesday 7th May 2019

• Bern / Switzerland : The Swiss Overshoot Day falls on May 7th this year.
• London / United Kingdom : UK Head of Cabinet David Lidington announces that his country will definitely vote in the 2019 EU elections .
• Rovaniemi / Finland : For the first time in its history, a meeting of the members of the Arctic Council ends without a joint final declaration.

Wednesday 8th May 2019

• Belmopan / Belize : The voters in Belize are in favor of placing a solution to the territorial conflict between Guatemala and Belize in the hands of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. In an identical referendum on April 15, 2018, around 96% of those eligible to vote in Guatemala voted for this step. The turnout was very low at just 24 percent. The referendum in Belize was scheduled for April 10, 2019, but was postponed on April 8 at short notice.
• Cape Town / South Africa : In the elections for the National Assembly and the provincial parliaments , the ruling African National Congress party wins again despite losses.
• Berlin / Germany : Awarding of the European Women Prize

Thursday May 9, 2019

• Sibiu / Romania : Informal EU summit
• Vatican City / Vatican : Pope Francis announces that clergymen must inform hotlines about abuse in the church from now on . With this he takes action against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church .

Friday 10th May 2019

• Bratislava / Slovakia : Start of the 83rd Men's Ice Hockey World Championship
• New York City / United States : First day of trading for the shares of the transport company Uber on the New York Stock Exchange .
• Washington, DC / United States : In the trade conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China , the US government is increasing tariffs on Chinese goods worth $ 200 billion from 10 to 25 percent.
• Vienna / Austria : Former ski racer Lizz Görgl wins the 12th season of the Dancing Stars with her partner Thomas Kraml .
• Sfax / Tunisia : In a boat accident in the Mediterranean Sea, around 45 nautical miles (around 83 kilometers) off the Tunisian coast, at least 65 migrants die. Most of them came from sub-Saharan countries and had started their crossing to Europe in Suara (Libya).
• United States : 44 US states are filing lawsuits against 20 pharmaceutical companies and 15 individuals accused of fixing generic prices in the US . At the center of the allegations is the world's largest manufacturer Teva .

Saturday 11 May 2019

• Bologna / Italy : Start of the 102nd Giro d'Italia (until June 2nd)
• Venice / Italy : Start of the Biennale (until November 24th)

Sunday 12th May 2019

• Jerusalem / Israel : The American writer Joyce Carol Oates will be awarded the Jerusalem Prize on the opening day of the international book fair .
• Skopje / North Macedonia : The Social Democrat Stevo Pendarovski takes office as the new President of North Macedonia .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : presidential election

Monday 13 May 2019

• Vienna / Austria : The three-day SKKM exercise "Helios" begins. The aim is to test the resilience of authorities, federal states, emergency services and operators of critical infrastructures in the event of a Europe-wide power shortage or a power failure .

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

• Cannes / France : Start of the Cannes International Film Festival .

Wednesday 15th May 2019

• Montgomery / United States : The Governor of the State of Alabama , Kay Ivey signed a previously adopted individually by both houses of parliament law against abortions, which as the most restrictive of its kind in the United States applies. According to this, abortion would be illegal even in cases of rape or incest.
• New York City / United States : Christie's auction house is auctioning the Rabbit sculpture by Jeff Koons for $ 91.1 million. This is the highest price achieved to date for a work by a living artist.
• Vienna / Austria : The National Council decides to ban headscarves for children in primary schools .

Thursday, May 16, 2019

• Madrid / Spain : The Spanish government announces the arrest of the alleged ETA executive Josu Ternera .

Friday 17th May 2019

• Albena / Bulgaria : In the final of the U-17 European Football Championship for women , the German team wins against the Netherlands representatives on penalties.
• Ankara / Turkey : The Turkish government is lifting the ban on visiting his lawyers for PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for several years .
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag passes a resolution declaring the argumentation patterns and methods of the BDS campaign to be anti-Semitic.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council decides on the approval of e-scooters on Germany's roads.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The multiple world champion and Olympic champion in biathlon , Laura Dahlmeier , announces the end of her career.

Saturday 18th May 2019

• Bleiburg / Austria : Croatian meeting on the Loibacher field .
• Budapest / Hungary : Final of the UEFA Champions League women in football . Olympic Lyon won the game with a 4-1 win against FC Barcelona . It is the 6th victory overall and the fourth in a row for this team.
• Canberra / Australia : general election
• Kiel / Germany : The final of the EHF Cup takes place in the Sparkassen-Arena .
• Tel Aviv / Israel : The Dutch singer Duncan Laurence wins the final of the 64th Eurovision Song Contest in the Tel Aviv Convention Center with 498 points . The German duo S! Sters occupies the penultimate place with 24 points. The Swiss Luca Hänni comes in 4th place with 364 points. The Austrian participant Paenda did not get past the semi-finals.
• Vienna / Austria : Following the resignation of Heinz-Christian Strache as Vice Chancellor and FPÖ party chairman in the wake of the “ Ibiza Affair ”, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces early elections .

Sunday 19th May 2019

• Bern / Switzerland : Referendums on corporate tax reform and the implementation of an amendment to the EU weapons directive .
• Bern / Switzerland : In the Stade de Suisse , FC Basel beat FC Thun 2-1 in the final of the Swiss Cup .
• City of Luxembourg / Luxembourg : Last game day of the top football league . F91 Dudelange becomes champion for the fourth time in a row .
• New Delhi / India : Last day of parliamentary elections .

Monday, May 20, 2019

• Kiev / Ukraine : New President Volodymyr Selenskyj takes office and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin resigns .
• The revision of the International System of Units comes into force.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

• Oslo / Norway : The American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck receives this year's Abel Prize .
• Lilongwe / Malawi : presidential, parliamentary and local elections
• London / United Kingdom : The Arabic-speaking writer Jokha al-Harthi receives the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies . Her translator Marilyn Booth is also honored .

Wednesday 22nd May 2019

• London / United Kingdom : Andrea Leadsom resigns from government as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons .
• Scunthorpe / United Kingdom : The steel manufacturer British Steel Limited files for bankruptcy. In addition to the approximately 5,000 direct employees, around 20,000 jobs at supplier companies are also affected.
• Stuttgart / Germany : Dieter Zetsche resigns as Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG , Ola Källenius will be his successor .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : At the age of 22, the swimmer Rūta Meilutytė announced the end of her career as an athlete.
• United Nations : Former Federal President Horst Köhler is giving up his position as UN Special Representative for Western Sahara . There he worked as a mediator in the Western Sahara conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front .
• Vienna / Austria : The ministerial posts in the Federal Government Kurz I, which became vacant as a result of the Ibiza affair , are filled with Valerie Hackl , Johann Luif , Walter Pöltner and Eckart Ratz , all non-party. Finance Minister Hartwig Löger is the new Vice Chancellor .

Thursday May 23, 2019

• Brussels / Belgium : Starting today, the national direct elections to the Parliament of the European Union will take place over four days . In Germany and Austria the election will take place on May 26th.
• Taiyuan / People's Republic of China : The launch of a Yaogan spy satellite with a Langer March 4 launcher fails.

Friday May 24th 2019

• London / United Kingdom : British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Chair of the Conservative Party on June 7th. She wants to remain in office as head of government until a successor is elected. Graham Brady resigns from chairmanship of the 1922 committee . Previously, party friends had urged him to run for May's successor.
• Silver Spring / United States : The Food and Drug Administration granted the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis approval of the name Zolgensma offered medication against the inherited disease spinal muscular atrophy in children under two years. With a price of around two million US dollars per dose, the gene therapy preparation is considered the most expensive drug in the world.
• Lyon / France : In the afternoon, an explosive device with nails and screws exploded in the pedestrian zone of Lyon. 13 people are injured. No group confessed to the attack, and a few days later a student and people close to him who came from Algeria were arrested.

Saturday 25th May 2019

• Bern / Switzerland : Last day of the Super League
• Berlin / Germany : FC Bayern Munich wins the final of the DFB Cup 2018/19 against RB Leipzig 3-0
• Cannes / France : At the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival , the film Parasite by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was awarded the Palme d' Or.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The finals in the competitions for the football association cups take place on the "Amateurs Final Day ".
• Geneva / Switzerland : At their annual meeting, the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopt the new edition of the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems known as "ICD-11" . It will come into force at the beginning of 2022.

Sunday 26th May 2019

• Berlin / Germany : European elections ; Local elections are also held in Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .
• Bremen / Germany : Election for Bremen citizenship
• Brussels / Belgium : general election
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The author Eva Menasse is awarded the Ludwig Börne Prize in the Paulskirche .
• Paris / France : Start of the French Open , (until June 9th; en )
• Vilnius / Lithuania : Runoff election of the presidential election between Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė .
• Vienna / Austria : European elections

Monday, May 27, 2019

• Antananarivo / Madagascar : general election
• Vienna / Austria : The National Council expresses its distrust of Chancellor Kurz and the government he heads . At the same time, he initiates his self-dissolution as a prerequisite for the planned early election . Both are a result of the so-called " Ibiza Affair ".
• After the CDU lost the vote in the 2019 European elections , party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer caused irritation with statements that were generally interpreted as a demand for regulation of expressions of opinion on the Internet before elections.
• Berlin / Germany : In football, after two draws in the relegation games against VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Union Berlin is promoted to the Bundesliga as a result of the away goals rule , while VfB is relegated to the second Bundesliga for the third time in its club history .

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

100 euro banknote

200 euro banknote

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank (ECB) is issuing new 100 and 200 euro banknotes . These are equipped with new security features that are supposed to make counterfeiting more difficult, and are slightly smaller.

Wednesday 29th May 2019

• Baku / Azerbaijan : In the final of the UEFA Europa League men in football hits the Chelsea to Arsenal with 4: 1.
• Budapest / Hungary : The excursion boat Hableány capsizes and sinks on the Danube, killing at least seven people.

Thursday May 30, 2019

• Aachen / Germany : The Secretary General of the United Nations , António Guterres , receives the International Charlemagne Prize.
• England : Start of the ICC Cricket World Cup (until July 14th).
• Montreux / Switzerland : According to media reports, the Bilderberg Conference 2019 will take place from May 30th to June 2nd at the Hotel Montreux Palace .
• Münster / Germany : The President of the Hartmannbund , Klaus Reinhardt , is elected as the successor to Frank Ulrich Montgomery as President of the German Medical Association. In the third ballot, he prevails against the president of the Lower Saxony Medical Association, Martina Wenker .
• Port Moresby / Papua New Guinea : The National Parliament elects former Finance Minister James Marape as Prime Minister . He succeeds Peter O'Neill , who had previously resigned.
• Addis Ababa / Africa : With the entry into force of the African free trade agreement on May 30, 2019, the African free trade area was established.
• Europe : European Sustainability Week (until June 5th)

Friday 31st May 2019

See also

• For a list of people who died in May 2019, see: Nekrolog Mai 2019 .
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in May .
• Category: Day of commemoration, celebration or action in May (catalog with Wikipedia articles for May).

Web links

Commons : May 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published May 2019  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Match data on the ÖFB website, accessed on May 9, 2019
2. ↑ Fiona Onasanya: Speeding offense MP ousted under recall rules. BBC, May 1, 2019, accessed the following day (English)
3. ↑ Cypriot Justice Minister resigns after series of murders ORF, May 2, 2019, accessed on the same day.
4. ↑ Niger fuel tanker explosion kills dozens near Niamey. BBC, May 6, 2019, accessed the same day. (English)
5. ↑ Cortizo wins presidential election in Panama. Spiegel Online, May 6, 2019, accessed on the same day.
6. ↑ Stevo Pendarovski wins presidential election. Spiegel Online, May 6, 2019, accessed on the same day.
7. ↑ Gerrit Wustmann: After AKP defeat: Istanbul must elect again Telepolis, May 6, 2019, accessed on the same day.
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22. ↑ Jeff Koons regains the record. Spiegel Online, May 15, 2019, accessed on May 17, 2019.
23. ↑ Austria decides to ban headscarves in primary schools. Spiegel Online, May 15, 2019, accessed on May 17, 2019.
24. ↑ Former Eta leader Ternera arrested in France. Spiegel Online, May 16, 2019, accessed the day after.
25. ↑ Turkish government lifts ban on visiting PKK founders. Spiegel Online, May 17, 2019, accessed on the same day.
26. ↑ Florian Rötzer: E-scooters intensify the mobility fight on streets and sidewalks. Telepolis, May 6, 2019, accessed the same day.
27. ↑ At the age of 25, biathlon star Laura Dahlmeier ended her career. Berliner Zeitung, May 17, 2019, accessed on the same day.
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