TimeDb - What happend in May 1940

Events

Date	Event
May 01 1940	1940 Summer Olympics Cancelled
May 05 1940	Norwegian Refugees Exiled In London Form Government
May 05 1940	Norwegian Campaign-Norwegian Squads Capitulate German Forces
May 06 1940	Steinbeck Is Awarded The Pulitzer Prize
May 07 1940	Churchill Replaces Chamberlain In Norway Debate
May 09 1940	U-9 Sinks Doris Near Den Helder
May 10 1940	Accidental Bombing In Freiburg, Germany WWII
May 10 1940	Germany Begins Raids On British Convoys, Airfields
May 10 1940	Germany Invades Belgium, Netherlands And Luxembourg
May 10 1940	Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister
May 10 1940	UK Invades Iceland In World War II
May 10 1940	Start 1-st premiership of sir Winston Churchill
May 13 1940	Germany's Conquest Of France Begins
May 13 1940	Queen Wilhelmina Flees To Great Britain
May 14 1940	Rotterdamn Is Bombed By The Luftwaffe
May 14 1940	Netherland Battle Ends When It Surrenders To Germany
May 14 1940	First Flight Of Yermolayev Yer-2 Soviet Bomber
May 15 1940	USS Squalus Recommissioned As USS Sailfish
May 15 1940	Dutch Surrender To Germany
May 15 1940	McDonald's Opens First Restaurant
May 17 1940	Germany Occupies Brussels, Belgium
May 17 1940	Lutwaffe Bombs In Middelburg Forces Dutch Surrender
May 20 1940	First Prisoners Arrive At Auschwitz
May 24 1940	Igor Silkorsky Flew A Single-rotor Helicopter
May 24 1940	Iosif Grigulevich Attempts To Assassinate Leon Trotsky
May 25 1940	Germany Wins Battle Of Boulogne
May 26 1940	World War II: Allied Forces Evacuate Dunkirk
May 26 1940	Siege Of Calais Ends With The Surrender
May 27 1940	Surrendering Troops Massacred By Germans
May 28 1940	Belgium Surrenders To Nazis Ending Battle Of Belgium
May 28 1940	First Ally Victory In World War 2 Recapture In Norway
May 29 1940	The First Flight Of The Vought F4U Corsair