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Saturday, 14 March 2026
May 05 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa. 
May 06 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
May 07 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3).
May 07 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid
May 07 David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
May 07 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
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
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