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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
May 13 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam 
May 14 Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
May 14 The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; inaugural nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians.
May 16 The Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun opens.
May 17 KVP Labor/Communists win inaugural post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections.
May 17 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike.
May 19 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam.
May 20 Cher, American actress is born.
May 20 Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances
May 22 Yankees turn triple-play and defeat Tigers' 5-3
May 24 Transjordan (now known as Jordan) is recorded as becoming a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch
May 25 Abdullah ibn Hussein is recorded as becoming king of Jordan
May 25 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
May 25 Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78
May 26 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott formally ends playing baseball.
May 26 Friedrich A H von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies.
May 26 Klement Gottwald is recorded as becoming premier of Czechoslovakia
May 26 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb.
May 28 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
May 29 In this year, KVP claims Provincial National election in Netherlands.
May 30 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die.
Jun 01 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed.
Jun 02 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
Jun 03 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
Jun 03 Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60.
Jun 04 Largest solar prominence (300000 mi/500000 km) observed.
Jun 05 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge results in the deaths of 61 (Chicago Ill)
Jun 06 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season
Jun 06 Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83.
Jun 06 Henry Morgan is inaugural to take off shirt on TV.
Jun 07 Bill Kreutzmann Jr, Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead)
Jun 07 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants.
Jun 08 "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
Jun 09 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa).
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