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Saturday, 21 February 2026
May 19 Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of "Simpson and his donkey" fame 
May 19 Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, is recorded as becoming the inaugural Australian to win a Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey.
May 20 Bataafsche Petroleum begins oil extraction of Maracaibo.
May 20 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
May 20 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense.
May 20 Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader is born
May 22 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland).
May 23 Clyde Wiegand, physicist
May 23 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I.
May 23 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WWI
May 24 Enemy Contracts Annulment Act.
May 24 Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried
May 24 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
May 24 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
May 25 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105000 casualties
May 25 Daniel Wolf, journalist.
May 25 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105000 casualties.
May 26 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
May 27 Herman Wouk, NYC, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War).
May 27 SS Aguila, a Yeoward Bros. ship, she was torpedoed by a German U-boat 47 miles south-west of the Smalls Lighthouse.
May 28 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll when does Raggedy Andy show up?
May 28 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
May 28 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
May 28 Women in Berlin demonstrate for peace.
May 29 Attack on Quinn's Post, Gallipoli
May 29 David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
May 30 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer.
May 31 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future.
May 31 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London.
Jun 01 1st Zeppelin air raid over England.
Jun 01 John Randolph, NYC, actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie)
Jun 01 The inaugural Zeppelin air raid over England.
Jun 01 The National Transcontinental Railway is completed between Moncton and Winnipeg via Edmundston, Quebec and Senneterre. Because of the high cost the Grand Trunk refused to lease the line which was operated as a component of the Canadian Government Railways until the formation of the Canadian National System.
Jun 02 Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars).
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