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Sunday, 21 June 2026
May 12 The Cambodian Navy seizes the American merchant ship Mayaguez in international waters. 
May 13 Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69.
May 13 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville TN.
May 13 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3.
May 14 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
May 14 In this year, Dynamo Kiev claims 15th Europe Cup II
May 14 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.
May 15 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
May 16 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
May 16 Japanese Junko Tabei became inaugural woman to reach Mount Everest's summit.
May 16 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder.
May 16 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
May 16 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
May 17 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
May 17 In this year, 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love".
May 17 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches.
May 17 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time.
May 18 Leroy Anderson, composer, dies at 66
May 19 27th Emmy Awards Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh
May 19 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India.
May 19 Junko Tabei is inaugural woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
May 20 Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies.
May 21 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission
May 21 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart.
May 22 Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90
May 23 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81.
May 24 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain some F-16's.
May 24 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
May 26 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
May 27 Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53.
May 27 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars"
May 27 Stanley Cup Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
May 27 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38.
May 28 Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies.
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