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Saturday, 14 February 2026
May 03 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed 
May 03 US inaugural armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
May 04 NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
May 05 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
May 06 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
May 06 British inaugural army opens assault on Tunis
May 07 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
May 07 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
May 07 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched.
May 07 Navy representatives witnessed landing trials of the XR-4 helicopter aboard the merchant tanker Bunker
May 07 Tunis, in North Africa, captured by WW2 Allied forces.
May 07 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia.
May 07 US inaugural Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia.
May 08 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass"
May 08 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet orders: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass"
May 08 In this year, 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet claims in 1:57.4
May 08 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
May 09 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
May 09 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens.
May 10 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
May 11 Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
May 11 Naval task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians
May 11 US 7th division lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
May 12 Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48.
May 12 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII).
May 12 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US.
May 12 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
May 13 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia - end of the North African campaign
May 13 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel.
May 13 German and Italian forces in Africa surrender.
May 13 German occupiers confiscate all radios
May 14 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived.
May 14 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
May 15 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
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