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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 15 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction. 
May 16 -17th] RAF bombs Möhne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
May 16 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
May 16 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
May 16 Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6000 have perished in flames
May 17 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
May 17 Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin;
May 18 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
May 18 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in an address to the U S Congress, pledges full support in the war against Japan
May 19 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
May 19 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
May 20 French, British and US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
May 21 quickest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators.
May 22 1st jet fighter is tested
May 22 RAF scatters inaugural copies of "The Flying Hollander"
May 22 Stalin disbands Komintern
May 22 The inaugural jet fighter is tested
May 23 -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund.
May 23 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund.
May 24 Admiral Donitz formally ends U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
May 24 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
May 24 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84.
May 25 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers.
May 25 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
May 25 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
May 26 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia).
May 26 Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
May 26 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
May 26 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
May 26 The inaugural president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia).
May 27 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
May 27 US forbids racial discrimination in war industry.
May 28 British militia reaches Tito.
May 29 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower).
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