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Tuesday, 21 July 2026
May 08 HMS OLYMPUS, sunk off Malta Grand Harbour - German E-boat-laid mines. On passage with personnel from Malta to Gibraltar, including many of the crews of bombed submarines P.36 and P.39; few survivors. 
May 09 In this year, 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab claims in 1:57.
May 10 Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74
May 11 German submarine U-S53 torpedoes British steamer Nicoya and Dutch ship Leno near Anticosti Island, Quebec.
May 11 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa.
May 12 1500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
May 12 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
May 12 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
May 12 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943
May 13 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight.
May 13 Helicopter makes its inaugural cross-country flight.
May 13 Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
May 13 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji.
May 14 The Women's Auxilliary Army Corps (WACS) is established.
May 14 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms.
May 14 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
May 15 Australian troops reinforce Port Moresby
May 15 Gasoline inaugural rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
May 15 Movement of POWs ("A Force") to Thailand from Singapore for work on the Burma-Thailand Railway
May 15 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2000 Dutch officers.
May 16 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma.
May 16 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
May 16 The inaugural transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
May 17 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
May 18 NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
May 19 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3000 hits (Anson and Wagner)
May 19 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69.
May 20 US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.
May 20 US Navy inaugural permitted black recruits to serve
May 21 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia.
May 22 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan.
May 23 Kanga Force moved to Wau, Papua New Guinea.
May 26 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
May 26 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
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