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Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Apr 25 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premiers 
Apr 25 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2656 Evenkia and #3653
Apr 27 In this year, George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone".
Apr 28 Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86.
Apr 29 Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55.
May 01 Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin, cricketer (2 Tests for WI), dies
May 01 Elton John is recorded as becoming inaugural pop star to perform in Israel.
May 01 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
May 01 Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) become self-governing.
May 02 14th Academy of Country Music Awards Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell win
May 03 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76.
May 03 Margaret Thatcher is recorded as becoming Britain's inaugural female prime minister.
May 03 The Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area
May 04 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2.
May 04 The inaugural woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) is elected.
May 05 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting.
May 05 Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68.
May 05 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
May 06 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters.
May 08 In this year, Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
May 08 Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76
May 09 Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95.
May 09 US and USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
May 10 Federated States of Micronesia is recorded as becoming self-governing.
May 10 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies
May 10 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
May 11 Joan Chandler, dies at 55.
May 12 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end.
May 13 Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
May 13 Shah and family sentenced to death in Teheran.
May 14 Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57.
May 16 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90.
May 16 In this year, FC Barcelona claims 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
May 17 -12ºF (-11ºC), on top of Mauna Kea HI (state record).
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