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Friday, 12 June 2026
May 08 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean. 
May 08 Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86.
May 09 English Army breaks German spy codes.
May 10 Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland.
May 10 England's House of Commons and Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
May 10 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason
May 11 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
May 11 The inaugural Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
May 12 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk.
May 12 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria.
May 13 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
May 13 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins.
May 13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland.
May 14 3600 Parisian Jews arrested.
May 15 British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya
May 15 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music.
May 15 Rumania passes law condemning Jews to forced labor
May 15 The inaugural British turbojet flies.
May 16 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers".
May 16 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
May 16 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
May 16 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
May 18 An Egyptian steamer sinks
May 18 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
May 18 Jewish veterans honor their dead.
May 19 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.
May 19 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.
May 19 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.
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
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