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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Apr 30 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read and Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. 
Apr 30 Corinne Calvet, Paris France, actress (Phantom of Hollywood)
May 01 Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila).
May 01 Cyprus is recorded as becoming a British Crown Colony.
May 01 The island of Cyprus is recorded as becoming a British colony.
May 02 David Ironside, cricketer (S Afr swing bowler in 3 Tests v NZ 1953-54)
May 02 Kezar Stadium in San Fransisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
May 02 Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens.
May 04 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage
May 04 Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
May 05 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
May 05 Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office).
May 05 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1307-game playing streak
May 06 Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884.
May 07 Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
May 08 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
May 08 In this year, 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry claims in 1:59.
May 09 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid.
May 09 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance.
May 10 William Ferguson Massey, New Zealand statesman and prime minister (1912-25), dies in office
May 11 Communist Party of Holland splits.
May 11 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
May 11 Rhodes Boyson, MP
May 12 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
May 12 John Simon, theater critic (NY Times).
May 12 Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
May 13 Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
May 14 Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
May 14 Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
May 14 Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
May 15 Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer.
May 16 Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer.
May 16 In this year, 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony claims in 2:07.6
May 17 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3000th hit.
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