May 18 Jewish veterans honor their dead

May 30 German capture Kreta

May 01 General Mills introduces Cheerios

May 02 FCC approves regular scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1

May 31 British troops vacate Kreta

May 25 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941

May 07 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA

May 31 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools

May 11 The first Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England

May 12 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk

May 25 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India

May 24 The birth of Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter

May 15 Rumania passes law condemning Jews to forced labor.

May 13 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins

May 02 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists

May 05 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England

May 27 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

May 20 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence

May 16 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

May 03 German air raid on Liverpool

May 19 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

May 02 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy

May 01 German assault on Tobruk

May 27 The German battleship 'Bismark' is sunk off the coast of France

May 06 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia

May 15 The first British turbojet flies

May 20 German soldiers invade Crete

May 15 British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya

May 07 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)

May 13 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany

May 13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland

May 30 The Canadian passenger ship SS Nerissa torpedoed off Ireland 73 Cdn. Army personnel lost

May 09 English Army breaks German spy codes

May 30 First anti semitic measures in Serbia

May 02 Anti-British revolt, encouraged by Germany, takes place in Iraq.

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