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26th Apr 1915
The Victoria Cross is awarded to the first airman, 2nd Lt William Rhodes-Moorhouse after conducting a successful bombing raid.
26th Apr 1929
First non-stop flight from England to India is completed.
26th Apr 1937
The town of Basque, norther Spain is bombed by German aircraft.
26th Apr 1986
An explosion at the No 4 reactor in Chernobyl Nuclear power plant results in a nuclear meltdown.
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Alan
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27th Apr 1296
The Scots are defeated at the Battle of Dunbar by Edward I.
27th Apr 1746
The Battle of Culloden is won by King George III
27th Apr 1865
The steam-powered riverboat The Sultaria, burns after one of its boilers explodes. 1238 Union POWs killed.
27th Apr 1937
Guernica in Spain is devastated by German bombers.
27th Apr 1941
The Nazis take and occupy Athens in Greece.
27th Apr 1975
North Vietnamese troops encircle Saigon.
27th Apr 1978
Afghanistan revolution begins
27th Apr 1989
Tiananmen Square in Beijing is taken over by protesting students.
27th Apr 2005
The Airbus A380 makes it’s maiden test flight in Toulouse, France.
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Alan
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28th Apr 1789
Christian Fletcher and most of the crew on HMS Bounty mutinies against Capt Bligh.
28th Apr 1910
Claude Grahame-White performs the first night flight.
28th Apr 1916
Martial law is declared throughout Ireland by Britain.
28th Apr 1919
First jump with an Army Air Corps parachute is made by Les Irvin
28th Apr 1945
Italian partisans kill Benito Mussolini.
28th Apr 1946
Tojo is indicted by the Allies on 55 counts of war crimes.
28th Apr 1965
Dominican Republic invade by the US Army and Marines.
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Alan
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29th Apr 1429
French forces led by Joan of Arc are victorious over the English at Orleans.
29th Apr 1916
Irish nationalists surrender to the British in Dublin.
29th Apr 1924
Open revolt breaks out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
29th Apr 1927
The construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed.
29th Apr 1945
Allies receive the unconditional surrender of the German Army in Italy.
Dachau concentration camp is liberated by Allied troops.
29th Apr 1946
Former Japanese leaders are indicted as war criminals in Tokyo.
Regards
Alan
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30th Apr 1527
The Treaty of Westminster is signed by Henry VIII and King Francis of France.
30th Apr 1563
Charles VI expels all Jews from France.
30th Apr 1930
A military alliance with France and Britain is proposed by the Soviet Union.
30th Apr 1943
British submarine HMS Seraph drops a dead man with false invasion plans into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
30th Apr 1945
Hitler commits suicide in his bunker
30th Apr 1970
Cambodia is invaded by US troops to disrupt North Vietnamese army base areas.
30th Apr 1972
North Vietnames launch an invasion of the South.
30th Apr 1975
South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam and the war in Vietnam is over.
30th Apr 1980
Iranian Embassy in London is siezed by terrorists.
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Alan
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1st May 1898
Commodore George Dewey, US Navy, defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay.
1st May 1915
Lusitania departs New York for Europe.
1st May 1927
Hitler holds his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
1st May 1937
An act of neutrality is signed by President Roosevelt keeping the US out of WWII.
1st May 1944
Thd first combat jet, the Messerschmitt ME 262 makes its first flight.
1st May 1948
North Korea is established.
1st May 1960
US U-2 Spy plane is shot down over Russia. Relations between the US and Russia deteriorate.
1st May 1982
Argentinean positions at Port Stalnley bombed by British warships and fighter bombers.
1st May 1994
Ayrton Senna is dies in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1st May 2003
Major combat in Iraq is over, announcement made by George W Bush.
1st May 2011
Osama Bin Laden is killed by US Navy SEALS in Abbottabad Pakistan.
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Alan
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2nd May 1797
Mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
2nd May 1808
People of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.
2nd May 1813
Russian and Prussian armies defeated by Napoleon at Grossgorschen
2nd May 1941
Hostilities break outbetweenBritish forces in Iraq and the country’s pro-German faction.
2nd May 1942
Admiral Nimitz visits Midway Island to review its readiness, convinced that the Japanese will attack.
2nd May 1945
Russian forces take Berlin.
2nd May 1982
HMS Conqueror fires Tigerfish torpedoes and sinks The General Belgrano.
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Alan
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3rd May 1568
Hundreds of Spanish people slaughtered in Florida by French forces.
3rd May 1859
France declares war on Austria.
3rd May 1926
US Marines land in Nicaragua
3rd May 1952
The first aircraft successfully lands at the North Pole
3rd May 1968
US Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, surprised to find North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
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Alan
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4th May 1814
Napoleon Bonapart arrives at Portoferraio, island of Elba
4th May 1930
The British arrest Mahatma Gandhi
4th May 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea commences
4th May 1945
German forces in Holland and Denmark surrender to the British
4th May 1882
The British warship HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentine Exocet Missile.
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Alan
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5th May 1821
Exiled Napoleon Bonaparte dies on the island of St Helena.
5th May 1916
Dominican Republic is invaded by US Marines.
5th May 1945
Denmark and Holland are liberated.
Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon.
5th May 1961
Alan Shepard is the first American in space.
5th May 1965
The first regular US Army unit, 173rd Airborne Brigade arrives in Bien Hoa-Vung, Vietnam.
5th May 1980
Iranian Embassy siege in London ends with a raid by the British SAS.
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Alan
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6th May 1937
Hindenburg explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey
6th May 1942
General Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese.
6th May 1944
Sevastopl on the Crimea is captured by the Red Army
6th May 1945
The war in Europe is over.
6th May 1962
A Polaris submarine fires the first nuclear warhead.
6th May 1994
Channel Tunnel is officially opened.
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Alan
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7th May 1429
The English siege of Orleans is broken by Joan of Arc.
7th May 1915
Passenger ship Lusitania is sunk by the German submarine U-20, 1978 people on board.
7th May 1941
Large numbers of German bombers target Liverpool, North East, North West, Bristol and London.
7th May 1942
Carrier launched aircraft from American and Japanese navies engage in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first time two fleets fought without seeing each other.
7th May 1943
Last German strongolds in North Africa-Tunis and Bizerte fall to Allied forces.
7th may 1945
Germany signs an unconditional surrender, effectively ending WWII in Europe.
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Alan
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8th May 1846
At Palo Alto, Texas the first major battle of the Mexican War is fought.
8th May 1895
Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki China cedes Taiwan to Japan.
8th May 1919
First transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes off.
8th May 1933
Mathatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike.
8th May 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea ends with the loss of the carrier USS Lexington and the Japanese carrier Shoho.
8th May 1945
The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE day.
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Alan
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9th May 1502
Christopher Columbus embarks on his final trip to New World.
9th May 1915
The Battle of Artois is fought between German and French forces.
9th May 1936
City Addis Abba, Ethiopia captured by Italy. The country is annexed.
9th May 1941
Royal Navy capture the German submarine U-110 along with its Enigma machine.
9th May 1955
West Germany joins NATO
9th May 1962
A laser beam is successfully bounced off the moon for the first time.
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Alan
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10th May 1503
Cayman Islands are discovered by Christopher Columbus
10th May 1796
At Lodi Bridge in Italy Napoleon Bonaparte is victorious against the Austrians.
10th May 1857
Bengal Army revolts against the British in India.
10th May 1917
Allied ships get destroyer escorts to Fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.
10th May 1933
Un-German books are burned by the Nazis
10th May 1940
Blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg is started by German forces.
10th May 1941
House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz.
Rudulf Hess parachutes into Scotland on what is claimed was a peace mission
10th May 1960
First circumnavigation of the globe underwater is completed by USS Nautilus.
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Alan
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11th May 1689
At Bantry Bay French and English navies do battle.
11th May 1745
At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
11th May 1942
Nazi’s lauch a major spring offensive in the Eastern Crimea.
11th May 1960
Adolf Eichmann is captured by Israeli soldiers in Buenos Aires.
11th May 2012
At the age of 89 Carrol Shelby, influential in the creation of the Mustang, passes away.
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Alan
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12th May 1926
Airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
12th May 1940
The conquest of France begins with the Nazi crossing the Muese river.
12th May 1942
Soviet Army takes Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine, the first major offensive by the Soviets.
12th May 1943
Axis forces in North Africa surrender
12th May 1949
The end of the Berlin Blockade.
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Alan
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13th May 1779
The war of Bavarian Succession ends
13th May 1846
War on Mexico is declared by the US.
13th May 1861
In the American Civil War Britain declares its neutrality.
13th May 1913
The first four-engined aircraft is flown by Igor Sikorsky
13th May 1944
Allied forces break through the German Gustav Line in Italy.
13th May 1981
Pope John Paul II is shot in St Peter’s Square in Rome.
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Alan
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14th May 1897
First communication by wireless telegraph is sent by Guglielmo Marconi
14th May 1940
Holland surrenders to Germany
14th My 1942
British army reaches India after retreating from Burma
14th May 1948
State of Israel is established by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
14th May 1973
Skylab is launched.
14th May 1955
Warsaw Pact is signed.
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Alan
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15th May 1795
Napoleion triumphantly enters the Lombardian capital of Milan
15th May 1916
Civil disorder in Santo Domingo is quelled with the landing of US Marines.
15th May 1918
Franc’s highest military medal is awarded to the first Americans, PFC’s Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts for their services in WWI.
15th May 1957
Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb on the Christmas Island area in the Pacific.
15th May 1958
Soviet Union launches Sputnik III
15th May 1963
Last Poject Mercury space flight is launched.
15th May 1988
Soviet forces begin to withdraw from Afghanistan.
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Alan
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