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Quiet day in history....
17th May 1756
Britain declares war on France
17th May 1940
Germany begins the invasion of France
17th May 1987
USS Stark attacked by an Iraqi Mirage fighter using two Exocet missiles.
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Alan
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18th May 1792
Poland is invaded by Russian troops.
18th May 1804
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of France.
18th May 1917
The Selective Service act is passed by US Congress calling up soldiers to fight WWI
18th May 1944
Monte Cassino in Italy is finally captured by the Allies
18th May 1969
Muddy conditions prevent two battalions of the 101st Airborne from reaching the top of Hill 937.
18th May 1974
India becomes a nuclear power
18th May 1980
Mount St Helens erupts 3 times in 24 hours.
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Alan
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19th May 1536
Anne Boleyn is beheaded on Tower Green.
19th May 1588
Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon.
19th May 1643
At Rocroi, France, the French army defeats a Spanish army.
19th May 1964
At least 40 microphones planted in the America embassy in Moscow.
19th May 1967
Soviet Union ratifies the treaty banning nuclear weapons in outer space.
Hanoi is bombed for the first time by US planes.
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Alan
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20th May 1303
France and England sign a peace treaty.
20th May 1784
The war between France, England and Holland ends, known as the Peace of Versailles.
20th May 1902
The occupation of Cuba by US military comes to an end
20th May 1930
The first airplane is catapulted from a dirigible.
20th May 1932
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry.
20th May 1941
Germany invades Crete by air
20th May 1942
The conquest of Burma by Japan is complete.
20th May 1944
A group of German officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
20th May 1951
US Air Force Captain James Jabara becomes the first jet air ace in history
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Alan
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21st May 1506
Christopher Columbus dies.
21st May 1927
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic by landing in Paris.
21st May 1940
Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division is attached at Arras by British forces, slowing his blitzkrieg of France21st May 1941
21st May 1941
SS Robin Moor is the first US ship sunk by a U-boat.
21st May 1968
US submarine Scorpion is heard from for the last time.
21st May 1982
HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine planes during the Falklands War with the loss of 22 lives.
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Alan
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22nd May 1455
Yorkists take King Henry VI prisoner at the Battle of St Albans during the War of the Roses.
22nd May 1908
Wright brothers register their flying machine for a US Patent
22nd May 1939
Hitler and Mussolini sign a Pact of Steel forming the Axis Powers.
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Alan
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23rd May 1430
Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians and sold to the English
23rd May 1533
Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
23rd May 1618
Thirty years war begins
23rd May 1915
War on Austria-Hungary is declared by Italy.
23rd May 1945
Himmler commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
23rd May 1960
Israel capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
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Alan
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24th May 1798
Irish nationalists rise up against British occupation believing a French invasion of Ireland is imminent.
24th May 1930
Amy Johnson in her Gypsy Moth becomes the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
24th May 1941
The battleship ‘Hood’ is sunk by the Bismarck with the loss of 1400 lives.
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Alan
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25th May 1943
Dusseldorf is bombed and by some 500 RAF Bombers.
25th May 1953
In Nevada the first atomic cannon is fired.
25th May 1977
The first Star Wars movie opens in America
25th May 1982
The Atlantic Conveyor is destroyed by Argentinean aircraft. HMS Coventry is hit causing explosions and the ship to capsize.
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Alan
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26th May 1670
Hostilities between England and France end with a treaty being signed by Charles II and Louis XIV.
26th May 1736
The French are defeated at the Battle of Ackia by British and Chickasaw forces.
26th May 1831
At the Battle of Ostoleka the Russians defeat the Poles.
26th May 1896
The czar of Russia, Nicholas II is crowned.
26th May 1940
At Dunkirk, the evacuation of Allied forces begins.
26th May 1946
A patent for the H-bomb is filed.
26th May 1969
Apollo 10 returns safely to Earth.
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Alan
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27th May 1907
San Francisco suffers an outbreak of Bubonic Plague
27th May 1919
First transatlantic flight is completed by a US Navy seaplane.
27th May 1937
The Golden Gate Bridge opens
27th May 1941
Bismarck is sunk by British naval and air forces.
27th May 1942
Rommel begins a major offensive in Libya
27th May 1944
General Douglas MacArthur lands on Biak Island in New Guinea
27th May 1972
The US and Soviets sign an arms reduction agreement.
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Alan
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28th May 1805
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned in Milan
28th May 1859
In Northern France, the Austrian army is on the receiving end of a flanking attack by the French army.
28th May 1940
Belgium surrenders to Germany
28th May 1982
Port Darwin and Goose Green in the Falkland Islands are recaptured by British troops taking almost 1500 Argentine prisoners.
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Alan
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29th May 1453
The Byzantine Empire comes to an end with the fall of Constantinople to Muhammad II.
29th May 1911
The Indianapolis 500 has its first running
29th May 1916
Dominican Republic is invaded by US forces.
29th May 1942
Kharkov region of the Soviet Union is encircled by the German Army.
29th May 1944
Allies pound the last ditch defences of the German 10th Army as they surround Rome.
29th May 1953
Mount Everest is conquered for the first time by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
29th May 1985
The Heysel Stadium Disaster occurs.
29th May 1999
Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
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Alan
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30th May 1431
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
30th May 1814
France is returned to its 1792 borders when the First Treaty of Paris is declared.
30th May 1859
The Austrians are defeated at Palestro when the Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River.
30th May 1912
American interests are to be protected by US Marines being sent to Nicaragua.
30th May 1913
The First Balkan War ends
30th May 1942
The RAF launches the first 1000 plane raid over Germany
30th May 1959
The SR-N1 full size hovercraft is launched and tested at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
30th May 1971
Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars is launched by NASA
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Alan
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1st Jun 1915
The first Zeppelin air raid is carried out over England by Germany
1st Jun 1939
A Douglas DC-4 completes its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York
1st Jun 1941
German army completes the capture of Crete.
1st Jun 1942
Soviet Union begins receiving Lend-Lease materials from America.
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Alan
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2nd Jun 1818
The Maratha alliance is defeated by the British army in Bombay, India.
2nd Jun 1942
Aircraft carriers Enterprise, Hornet and Yorktown move into position for the Battle of Midway.
2nd June 1944
Shuttle bombing of Germany begins with allied bombers departing from Italy and landing in the Soviet Union.
2nd June 1969
Destroyer USS Frank E Evans is sliced in half by the Australian aircraft carrier Melborne, off the shore of South Vietnam.
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Alan
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3rd Jun 1864
During the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes
3rd Jun 1918
Finnish parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany
3rd Jun 1940
Paris is hit with 1,100 bombs by the German Luftwaffe.
3rd Jun 1942
Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian islands is strafed by Japanese carrier based planes as a diversion for an attack on Midway Island.
3rd Jun 1943
162 Nazi planes are taken down by the Russian army in one of the biggest air battles of WWII. The German attack lasted nearly 10 hours over Kursk.
3rd Jun 1965
Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space by exiting the Gemini 4 space capsule.
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Alan
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4th Jun 1792
Puget Sound is claimed by Capt George Vancouver for Britain.
4th Jun 1794
Port au Prince, Haiti is captured by British troops.
4th Jun 1918
Germany’s offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France is halted by American and French troops.
4th Jun 1940
The evacuation of 300,000 British troops at Dunkirk is completed.
4th Jun 1944
Rome is liberated by Allied troops.
4th Jun 1944
US Navy captures the first enemy submarine, the U-505
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Alan
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5th Jun 1099
An eclipse of the moon is interpreted as a sign members of the First Crusade will recapture Jerusalem.
5th Jun 1595
At the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise, the Spanish is defeated by henry IV’s army.
5th Jun 1827
Athens falls to Ottoman forces.
5th Jun 1900
Pretoria is seized from the Boers by British troops under Lord Roberts.
5th Jun 1940
The German army begins its offensive in Southern France.
5th Jun 1944
The Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand is bombed by B-29’s.
5th Jun 1947
The Marshall Plan is outlined by the US, program designed to assist European nations rebuild their economies.
5th Jun 1967
6 day war bertween Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan begins.
5th Jun 1968
Robert F Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan.
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Alan
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6th Jun 1813
Invasion of Canada by the US is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
6th Jun 1918
US marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood
6th Jun 1924
The Dawes Plan, an American plan to aid Germany pay off war debts is accepted by the German Reichstag.
6th Jun 1941
The seizure of foreign ships in US Ports is authorised by the US Government
6th Jun 1944
Operation Overlord lands 400,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy, D-Day…
6th Jun 1985
The body of Dr Josef Mengele is exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.
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Alan
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