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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Apr 27 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach. 
Apr 27 The inaugural female soccer official is hired by the NASL.
Apr 28 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79.
Apr 29 Phillie Steve Carlton strikes out his 3000th batter.
Apr 30 John Lauchlan and James Blench; both natives of Seebe, Alberta, reach summit of 7454.5m Mt. Gangapurna in the Himalayas by a new south face route
May 01 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett.
May 01 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
May 01 Harrison Williams (Senator-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
May 01 In this year, Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3.
May 01 Ottawa imposes special tax of $1.15 per barrel to pay for Petro-Canada's purchase of Petrofina, and are Albertans happy NOT.
May 02 Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes.
May 05 Bobby Sands, IRA activist/terrorist dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike
May 06 US expels Libyan diplomats.
May 07 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79.
May 08 Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies.
May 09 C E "Nip" Pellew, cricketer (10 Tests 484 runs at 37), dies.
May 09 Kazimiroff Blvd in the Bronx named for a Bronx historian
May 11 Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical "Cats" premieres in London.
May 11 Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain and lung cancer at 36
May 11 Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
May 12 Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies.
May 13 Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
May 13 In this year, Dinamo Tbilisi claims 21st Europe Cup II
May 13 Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded.
May 13 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
May 14 NASA launches space vehicle S-192.
May 14 The Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.
May 15 In this year, George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
May 15 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6.
May 16 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks.
May 16 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
May 17 Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80
May 18 Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73
May 21 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
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