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Thursday 5 May 2022

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5 MayADPF 132 and ADI 4277 (Brazil), Decision Date 2011

5 MayAndrei Mocioni, died 1880

5 MayFrank Michelman, born 1936

5 MayGordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, died 1943

5 MayKimberlé Crenshaw, born 1959

5 MayLeila Seth, died 2017

5 MayPeter Frank (jurist), born 1968

6 MayAl-Qurtubi, died 1273

6 MayChinese Exclusion Act, Enacted Date 1882

6 MayDavid Mendes, born 1962

6 MayEmanuel Celler, born 1888

6 MayKoka Subba Rao, died 1976

6 MaySam Piroj Bharucha, born 1937

6 MaySupreme Court of the State of New York, founded 1691

6 MayTaylor v Caldwell, Decision Date 1863

7 MayBaldus de Ubaldis, died 1400

7 MayKudirat Kekere-Ekun, born 1958

7 MayLuigi Gaetano Marini, died 1815

7 MayMyres McDougal, died 1998

7 MayPeter W. Rodino, died 2005

7 MayPhiladelpho Azevedo, died 1951

7 MaySalmon P. Chase, died 1873

7 MayWilhelm Schaffrath, died 1893

7 MayWilliam Holdsworth, born 1871

8 MayA. R. Cornelius, born 1903

8 MayCharles Hay Cameron, died 1880

8 MayDavid Souter, died 2025

8 MayGiles Jacob, died 1744

8 MayHersch Lauterpacht, died 1960

8 MayLeonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, born 1934

9 MayRobin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, born 1926

9 MayRohana Yusuf, born 1956

9 MayYvonne Mokgoro, died 2024

10 MayC-355/2006 (Colombia), Decision Date 2006

10 MayJohn Sherman, born 1823

10 MayMichael Mustill, Baron Mustill, born 1931

10 MayMireille Delmas-Marty, born 1941

10 MayPhilip Edward Archer, died 2002

11 MayFred A. Hartley Jr., died 1969

11 MayGovernment of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom, Filed Date 2000

11 MaySheikh Anwarul Haq, born 1917

11 MayThomas Buergenthal, born 1934

Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.