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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 08 David Attenborough, English director is born. 
May 08 Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
May 08 The inaugural flight over North Pole (Bennett and Byrd).
May 09 Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England).
May 09 Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
May 09 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole.
May 09 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make inaugural flight over North Pole.
May 10 In this year, 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display claims in 1:59.8.
May 11 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
May 11 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for inaugural air crossing of Arctic Ocean
May 11 Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronics).
May 12 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
May 12 British general strike ends.
May 12 Earl Hutto, Panama City Fla, (Rep-D-FL, 1979- )
May 12 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
May 12 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is inaugural vessel to fly over the North Pole
May 13 Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls).
May 13 German Government of Luther falls
May 13 German govt of Luther falls
May 14 Cestmir Gregor, composer
May 15 Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
May 15 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
May 15 In this year, 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over claims in 2:03.8.
May 15 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies.
May 16 Jan Zimmer, composer.
May 16 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
May 17 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
May 17 Cicely Berry, voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
May 17 German Government of Marx takes power
May 17 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice CA; She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice Calif She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped.
May 19 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
May 19 Paul Cooper, composer
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