Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2026
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These featured pictures, as scheduled below, have been chosen to appear as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in May 2026. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2026#1]] for May 1).
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May 1
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May 2
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May 3
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May 4
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Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter who was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church was best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. His paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. This photograph of Church was taken c. 1868 by Napoleon Sarony. Photograph credit: Napoleon Sarony; restored by Adam Cuerden
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May 5
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May 6
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May 7
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Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa (7 May 1836 – 21 January 1874) was a British operatic soprano who established the Carl Rosa Opera Company together with her husband Carl Rosa. Parepa's aristocratic father died soon after her birth, and her mother turned to the stage to support them. Parepa made her operatic debut in 1855, at age 16, and soon earned enthusiastic reviews in the major London opera houses. In 1867, following the death of her first husband, Parepa married the violinist and conductor Carl Rosa in New York, and they founded an opera company with Parepa as the leading lady. They toured successfully in America for several years. After their return to Britain with ambitious plans for their opera company, Parepa fell ill and died in 1874 at only 37 years of age. Photograph credit: Jeremiah Gurney; restored by Adam Cuerden
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May 8
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American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other print advertising, as well as popular songs. This photo by Esther Bubley shows a woman being trained by the Capitol Transit Company (in Washington D.C.) to operate a streetcar. Photograph credit: Esther Bubley; restored by Adam Cuerden
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May 9
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May 10
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May 11
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May 12
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May 13
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May 14
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May 15
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May 16
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Henry Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who embodied an everyman image. Born and raised in Nebraska, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like Jezebel (1938), Jesse James (1939) and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Fonda won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which co-starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda. He was too ill to attend the ceremony and died from heart disease five months later. This publicity photograph shows Fonda in his role in Warlock (1959). Photograph credit: Unknown
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May 17
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May 18
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May 19
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May 20
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May 21
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The Greenfield tornado struck southwestern Iowa, United States on 21 May 2024. An EF4 tornado tracked across southwestern Iowa, destroying many buildings and wind turbines across its path that stretched through Page, Taylor, Adams, and Adair counties, while also causing more than $31 million in property damage, killing five people and injuring 35 more. This photograph shows the devastation of Greenfield, Iowa. Photograph: Christopher Riske
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May 22
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May 23
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May 24
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May 25
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May 26
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The Blue Quran is an early Quranic manuscript, distinguished by its use of gold Kufic script on indigo-dyed parchment. Its horizontal format is characteristic of Qurans produced between the 8th and 10th centuries of the Islamic Golden Age. The manuscript lacks vowel and diacritical signs and is sparsely decorated, with ornamentation largely limited to circular silver verse markers, now oxidised. This restrained decoration implies the monumentality and visual continuity of the script. The text on the leaf derives from the 30th Surah (al-Rum). The precise origin, date, and patronage of the Blue Quran remain unknown. However, most researchers date the manuscript to between the late 9th and mid-10th centuries. Proposed places of production vary between Qairawan in modern-day Tunisia and Córdoba in Umayyad Spain. Photograph credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art; photographed by Marie-Lan Nguyen
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May 27
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Althea Gibson (1927–2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. On May 27, 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships). The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. In the early 1960s she also became the first Black player to compete on the Women's Professional Golf Tour. Photograph credit: Fred Palumbo (New York World-Telegram and The Sun); restored by Adam Cuerden
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May 28
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Photograph credit: Lorie Shaull
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May 29
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May 30
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May 31
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