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Saturday, 04 July 2026
Apr 25 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77. 
Apr 28 Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43.
Apr 28 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
Apr 29 G Gronchi elected president of Italy
Apr 30 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced.
Apr 30 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
May 02 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable.
May 02 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
May 02 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
May 03 Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies.
May 04 Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
May 05 "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances.
May 05 Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
May 05 The musical, " Damn Yankees", opened in New York City for a successful run of 1019 performances.
May 05 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
May 06 West Germany joins NATO.
May 09 German Federal Republic joins NATO.
May 11 G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
May 11 Israel attacks Gaza
May 14 A causeway is completed across the Strait of Canso between Cape Porcupine and Balache Point, Nova Scotia. This involved a 14 mile main line diversion for the rerouting of railway traffic linking directly Cape Breton Island with the mainland. Previous movements were by car ferry across the Strait of Canso
May 14 Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44
May 14 The Warsaw Pact signed by Eastern bloc countries.
May 14 US performs nuclear test in Pacific Ocean.
May 14 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
May 15 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins.
May 15 Vienna Treaty Britain, France, US and USSR restores Austria's independence
May 16 Debra Winger, American film actress is born
May 16 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in 9 (San Fransisco) for heavyweight boxing title
May 16 James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY.
May 16 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo.
May 16 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
May 17 Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies.
May 17 Dutch Government of Drees steps down
May 18 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record).
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