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Monday, 23 February 2026
May 19 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC. 
May 20 Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
May 20 Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
May 21 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
May 21 Challenger moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base, for mating for STS-7 mission.
May 21 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1.
May 21 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
May 23 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
May 24 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
May 24 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
May 24 The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic.
May 25 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
May 25 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt results in the deaths of 357
May 25 France performs nuclear test
May 25 inaugural National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed.
May 25 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76.
May 26 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7.
May 26 NASA launches Exosat.
May 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 27 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67.
May 27 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress.
May 28 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
May 28 In this year, Hamburger ZV claims 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens
May 30 Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
May 30 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
Jun 01 Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82.
Jun 02 Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire.
Jun 02 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinatti.
Jun 03 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60.
Jun 05 Yannich Noah is recorded as becoming inaugural Frenchman to win French Open since WW II.
Jun 07 A Gilmore and P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3152
Jun 07 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried.
Jun 12 Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82.
Jun 13 Pioneer 10 is recorded as becoming inaugural man-made object to leave Solar System.
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