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Monday, 01 June 2026
May 08 U-575 sinks Asphodel 
May 09 1st eye bank opens in New York
May 09 Country singer Jimmie Davis is recorded as becoming Governor of Louisiana.
May 09 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested.
May 09 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86.
May 09 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
May 09 The inaugural eye bank opens (NYC)
May 10 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan.
May 10 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal.
May 11 Allied forces launch a major offensive in central Italy.
May 11 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
May 11 Opposition group surprise attack post office washer.
May 11 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
May 12 Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80.
May 12 Krim purged of Nazi troops
May 12 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat.
May 13 Hitler gives permission for German forces to withdraw from the USSR
May 13 In this year, 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive claims in 1:59.2
May 14 91 German bombers harass Bristol
May 14 British troops occupy Kohima.
May 14 George Lucas, Creator of the Star Wars films is born
May 15 14000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz.
May 15 Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz begins.
May 15 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI discuss D-Day plan
May 15 Sergei Aleksi is recorded as becoming guardian of Patriarch Throne.
May 16 1st of 180000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
May 16 George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
May 16 Military police attack gypsies.
May 16 Rabbi Weissmandl sends out pleas to bomb camp and rail lines - based on his "Auschwitz Protocol" - a 31 page report from escapees' eyewitness accounts of Rudolph Verba and Alfred Wetzler.
May 16 The inaugural of 180000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.
May 17 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java.
May 17 Chinese/US armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
May 17 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
May 17 Operation Straightline Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea.
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