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Monday, 19 January 2026
May 01 World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago. 
May 02 Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
May 03 Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN.
May 03 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
May 04 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging.
May 04 Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy)
May 04 George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
May 05 Panic of 1893 Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
May 05 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
May 05 Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
May 05 The worst economic crisis in U.S. history (to that time) happened on this day. Stock prices plummeted, major railroads went into receivership, 15000 businesses went bankrupt and 15 to 20 percent of the work force was unemployed. Within seven months, over 600 banks had closed. 1900 "The Billboard", a magazine for the music and entertainment industries, began weekly publication after six years as a monthly 1901 The inaugural Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City.
May 08 Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913).
May 10 Imperial Institute in London opens
May 10 In this year, 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout claims in 2:39.25
May 11 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
May 11 Henri Desgrange establishes inaugural bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
May 14 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83.
May 14 Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
May 15 Michel Gusikoff, composer
May 16 Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
May 19 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, results in the deaths of 111 (Norway)
May 19 Heavy rain washes "quick clay" into a deep valley, results in the deaths of 111 (Norway).
May 21 Arthur Carr, cricket capt (England v Australia 1926)
May 22 Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game.
May 24 W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda).
May 26 Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus).
May 27 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
May 31 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
Jun 01 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin).
Jun 03 Assen Karastoyanov, composer.
Jun 04 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania.
Jun 06 Ludovic Feldman, composer.
Jun 07 Gandhi's inaugural act of civil disobedience.
Jun 07 Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43.
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