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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 06 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike 
May 07 Battle in Bunyoro Captain F Lugard formally ends Moslem rebellion, 300 killed.
May 07 Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard formally ends Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
May 07 Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard formally ends Moslem rebellion, 300 killed.
May 08 Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
May 08 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies.
May 11 Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
May 11 The Otsu Scandal takes place
May 12 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
May 13 Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl).
May 13 In this year, 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman claims in 2:52.25.
May 14 Egon Kornauth, composer.
May 15 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms.
May 15 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established
May 15 Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US indian actor (Pony Soldier)
May 15 Operations begin at Philips and Company in Holland.
May 16 George A Hormel and Co introduce Spam
May 16 George A Hormel and Company introduce Spam.
May 18 Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist).
May 19 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered.
May 20 History of cinema: The inaugural public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
May 21 Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds.
May 22 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
May 22 J R Becher, writer.
May 22 The inaugural motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs
May 23 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73.
May 24 Benedictus H Danser, Dutch botanist
May 25 Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper).
May 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
May 27 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
May 30 Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter.
May 31 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
Jun 02 Ernst Kunz, composer
Jun 04 Erno Rapee, composer.
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