Page 7: Historical Events In May - 15

1940  German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders   

1940  Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP).   

1940  Nylon stockings go on sale for inaugural time (US)   

1940  Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris France   

1940  The inaugural successful helicopter flight in US Vought-Sikorsky US-300.   

1940  Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75.   

1940  The inaugural successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300   

1941  British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya   

1941  Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music   

1941  Rumania passes law condemning Jews to forced labor.   

1941  The inaugural British turbojet flies   

1942  Australian troops reinforce Port Moresby   

1942  Gasoline inaugural rationed in US (17 Eastern States).   

1942  Movement of POWs ("A Force") to Thailand from Singapore for work on the Burma-Thailand Railway   

1942  Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2000 Dutch officers   

1943  Halifax bombers sinks U-463.   

1943  Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction.   

1944  14000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz.   

1944  Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz begins   

1944  Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan   

1944  Sergei Aleksi is recorded as becoming guardian of Patriarch Throne.   

1945  Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf   

1948  28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends   

1948  Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record   

1948  Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five   

1948  Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel   

1951  AT and T is inaugural US company to have one million stockholders   

1952  Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84   

1953  Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago for heavywgt boxing title   

1953  Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam.   

1955  Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins.   

1955  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1955  Vienna Treaty Britain, France, US and USSR restores Austria's independence   

1955  Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US and USSR restores Austria's independence.   

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1565  Henrick de keyser: Architect/master builder of amsterdam   

1567  Claudio giovanni antonio monteverdi: Cremona italy, composer (l'orfeo)   

1608  René goupil: French catholic missionary (canadian martyrs)   

1720  Maximilian hell: Slovakian astronomer   

1749  Levi lincoln: Sr., american revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting governor of massachusetts   

1754  Pierre dutillieu: Composer   

1759  Maria theresia von paradis: Composer   

1764  Johann nepomuk kalcher: Composer   

0392  Death of Valentinianus ii: Emperor of rome (375-392), murdered at 21   

0884  Marinus i: [martinus ii], pope (882-84),   

0913  Death of Hatto i: Archbishop of mainz   

1157  Death of Yury dolgoruky: Russian prince   

1174  Nur ad-din mahmud: King of syria,   

1381  Eppelein von gailingen: German robber baron   

1470  Charles viii of sweden: Charles viii of sweden (b. 1409)   

1482  Death of Paolo toscanelli: Italian physician & mapmaker,