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Saturday, 27 June 2026
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.
May 31 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
May 31 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)
May 31 British troops vacate Kreta
May 31 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools.
Jun 01 31.98 cm (12.59") rainfall, Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record).
Jun 01 Germany bans all Catholic publications.
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