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Friday, 06 February 2026
Apr 26 Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer 
Apr 28 Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
Apr 29 Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha
Apr 30 Hail stones results in the deaths of about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi.
Apr 30 John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
May 04 Italy and Spain sign military covenant.
May 06 Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73).
May 07 Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris.
May 07 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
May 10 inaugural colonial athletics championships are held at the NSW Amateur Athletics Association Cricket Ground in Sydney.
May 10 Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
May 11 In this year, 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund claims in 2:49
May 11 Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas).
May 12 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
May 13 Brazil abolishes slavery
May 13 DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat".
May 13 DeWolf Hopper inaugural recited "Casey at the Bat".
May 14 In this year, 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II claims in 2:38.00.
May 14 Miles Mander, Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
May 15 Jean Wahl, French philosopher.
May 16 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia.
May 16 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC.
May 17 A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent and England).
May 21 May Aufderheide, composer.
May 22 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
May 23 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged and Tired).
May 25 Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock)
May 27 Louis Durey, composer.
May 28 James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912).
May 30 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
May 31 Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone)
Jun 01 California gets its 1st seismograph.
Jun 01 California gets its inaugural seismograph.
Jun 03 "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
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