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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
May 12 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade 
May 13 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
May 13 The inaugural British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its inaugural test flight later this type of aricaraft was used in the 1982 war in the Falklands
May 14 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
May 16 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
May 17 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland.
May 18 Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates.
May 18 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates.
May 18 James T Adams, US historian (Pulitzer 1921).
May 21 Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
May 22 Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
May 23 Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day).
May 25 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai.
May 25 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
May 27 Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day".
May 27 Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
May 27 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY.
May 27 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin.
May 29 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC.
May 30 East Germans constitution approved
May 30 NPS/VHP win inaugural general election in Suriname
May 31 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later).
Jun 01 The inaugural magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
Jun 02 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82.
Jun 02 Transjordan renamed Jordan
Jun 03 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown).
Jun 03 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79.
Jun 03 Dragnet is inaugural broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
Jun 03 The inaugural negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown).
Jun 04 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950.
Jun 08 Siam changes name to Thailand.
Jun 09 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas is recorded as becoming inaugural woman treasurer of US.
Jun 11 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
Jun 11 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed.
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