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Saturday, 27 June 2026
May 11 In this year, 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count claims in 2:10.4. 
May 12 Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969- ).
May 12 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
May 12 Opium laws enforced.
May 13 Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter.
May 14 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg.
May 15 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
May 15 Mickey Mouse made his inaugural appearance
May 16 Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
May 16 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies.
May 17 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam.
May 17 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
May 18 G R Hall, nuclear scientist.
May 19 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather PA coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
May 19 51 frogs enter inaugural annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)
May 19 Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
May 19 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59
May 22 Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
May 22 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
May 22 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
May 23 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
May 24 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7.
May 24 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again.
May 25 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
May 25 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is inaugural woman to fly Atlantic Ocean.
May 25 Frigyes Hidas, composer.
May 26 A's commit 7 errors and lose to Yanks 7-4.
May 28 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corp merged.
May 29 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds).
May 29 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car.
May 30 John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84).
May 31 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
May 31 inaugural aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
May 31 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
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