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1939 : The Pact of Steel is signed; the Axis is formed
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On May 22:
1960 - An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. |
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On May 22: 1960 - An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. I remember that serious damage came also out of Japan from the tsunami by this earthquake. |
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1941 : Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers
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On May 23:
1934 – American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by police on a desolate road near their Bienville Parish, Louisiana hideout outside the Town of Gibsland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde |
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1941 : The Bismarck sinks the Hood
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1944 : Operation Knight's Move is launched
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1940 : Britain's Operation Dynamo gets underway as President Roosevelt makes a radio appeal for the Red Cross
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May 26 1907:
John Wayne, an actor who came to epitomize the American West, is born in Winterset, Iowa. |
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On May 27:
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_gate_bridge |
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