April - Month of the Military Child

May - Military Family Appreciation Month

Friday, May 9 - National Military Spouse Day

Saturday, May 17 - Armed Forces Day

Monday, May 26 - Memorial Day

April 19
1775 - The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, MA
1794 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw
1861 - Baltimore riots: 4 Union soldiers & 9 civilians killed
1861 - President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports
1927 - In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek
1938 - General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins
1971 - Russia launches its first Salyut space station
1989 - The battleship USS Iowa's number 2 turret explodes, killing 47 sailors