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May 18 German troops conquer Brussels 
May 18 Nazis pierce French lines on 62-mile front
May 19 Amsterdam time is recorded as becoming MET (Middle European Time)
May 19 HMS WHITLEY, lost between Nieuport and Ostend, Belgium - damaged by German bombers and beached.
May 20 Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
May 20 Concentration camp is established at Auschwitz.
May 20 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
May 20 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel
May 20 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
May 21 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France.
May 21 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees.
May 21 Reynaud forms French Government.
May 22 Bernard Shaw, news correspondant (CBS, CNN).
May 22 Decision to form 8th Division of AIF.
May 22 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis.
May 22 Nazis at Channel trap the Allies at Belgium
May 22 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris.
May 23 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
May 23 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
May 23 The inaugural great dogfight involving the British Spitfire.
May 24 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1).
May 24 Dutch army demobilizes.
May 24 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
May 24 German tanks reach Atrecht France
May 24 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel".
May 25 German troops conquer Boulogne
May 25 Golden Gate International Expo reopens.
May 26 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky.
May 26 HMS CURLEW (AA), sunk in Lavangs Fiord, Ofotfiord near Narvik, northern Norway by German Ju88 bombers
May 26 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
May 26 The "Miracle of Dunkirk" evacuation begins in France during World War II
May 27 British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
May 27 The evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins.
May 28 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up.
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