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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 20 Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published. 
May 20 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
May 20 German soldiers invade Crete
May 20 Sgt. Alfred Clive HULME 23rd NZ Battalionwon the Victoria Cross for valor at various places in Greece.
May 21 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
May 21 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta.
May 21 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp.
May 21 The inaugural US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore).
May 22 British troops attack Baghdad
May 22 Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack)
May 22 Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the inaugural of two Victoria Crosses on Crete.
May 23 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
May 23 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
May 24 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1416 die 3 survive
May 24 Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter is born.
May 24 Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle
May 24 The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic.
May 25 5000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
May 25 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for inaugural time in 1941
May 26 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila.
May 26 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia.
May 26 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck.
May 26 German occupiers begin youth labor.
May 27 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76.
May 27 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta.
May 27 FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency" due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
May 27 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
May 27 The German battleship 'Bismark' is sunk off the coast of France.
May 28 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5).
May 28 British army begins evacuation of Kreta.
May 30 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government.
May 30 German capture Kreta.
May 30 inaugural anti semitic measures in Serbia.
May 30 The Canadian passenger ship SS Nerissa torpedoed off Ireland 73 Cdn. Army personnel lost.
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