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Monday, 29 June 2026
May 11 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy. 
May 12 Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55.
May 12 Queen Wilhelmina steps down.
May 14 Israel declares independence from under British administration.
May 14 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's inaugural broadcast
May 14 Jewish provisional government formed as British Mandate for Palestine ends
May 14 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem.
May 14 PM David Ben-Gurion establishes State of Israel
May 14 US grants Israel de facto recognition
May 15 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends.
May 15 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record.
May 15 Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
May 15 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
May 16 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is are discovered in Greece
May 16 Chaim Weizmann elected inaugural President of Israel
May 16 Egyptians enter the Gaza.
May 16 Israel issues its inaugural postage stamps
May 17 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha and Telel-Kadi.
May 17 Soviet Union recognized Israel.
May 18 "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
May 18 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus.
May 18 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
May 20 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army.
May 20 The inaugural use of Israeli Air Force and inaugural war victory, defeating Syrian army
May 21 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR).
May 22 Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57.
May 23 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive homeruns
May 23 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel.
May 24 Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78.
May 24 The USSR stop road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West
May 25 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
May 26 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers.
May 26 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
May 27 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid.
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