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Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Apr 26 Coal mine explosion results in the deaths of 1549 at Honkeiko Manchuria 
Apr 26 Colliery explosion results in the deaths of 1549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
Apr 27 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
Apr 27 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
Apr 28 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
Apr 28 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
Apr 29 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road.
Apr 30 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi.
Apr 30 Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
Apr 30 The inaugural submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi.
Apr 30 The Toronto Stock Exchange Index hits wartime low of 84.8 on news of German victories
May 01 Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India
May 01 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
May 01 Townsville put on invasion alert.
May 02 In this year, 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out claims in 2:04.4
May 02 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
May 03 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands.
May 03 Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed.
May 03 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
May 03 Nazis execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands.
May 04 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
May 04 Food inaugural rationed in US.
May 04 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life).
May 04 The Battle of the Coral Sea, a WWII clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began today.
May 05 Battle of Coral Sea.
May 05 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
May 05 US begins rationing sugar during WWII.
May 06 CAPT Milton Miles arrives in Chungking, China, to begin building an intelligence and guerilla training organization, Naval Group China
May 06 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
May 07 Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79.
May 08 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
May 08 Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack
May 08 German summer offensive opens in Crimea.
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