3rd » World War II: Empire of Japan called Japanese naval troops Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) e.g invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces f
4th » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5 6 on Empire of Japan Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had Invasion of T
6th » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines Battle of Corregidor called surrender to the Japanese.
7th » During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy
8th » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 6. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that t
8th » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only Commonwealth of Nations called British Commonwealth soldier
9th » The Holocaust called Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe called Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or depor
10th » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
12th » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
12th » World War II: The U.S. Tanker (ship) e.g tanker 'List of shipwrecks in May 1942 12 May known as Virginia' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507.
12th » The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
19th » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
22nd » Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies of World War II known as Allies.
22nd » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
22nd » World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
26th » World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
27th » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
28th » World War II: in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazism e.g Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
30th » World War II: Bombing of Cologne in World War II e.g 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
31st » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attack on Sydney Harbour named attacks on Sydney, Australia.
18th » Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading known as Simon Isaacs, English banker and philanthropist
18th » Nobby Stiles, English footballer, coach, and manager
19th » Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research named Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994)
19th » Robert Kilroy-Silk, English television host and politician
20th » Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat, List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States named Canadian Ambassador to the United States
20th » Lynn Davies, Welsh long jumper
20th » Carlos Hathcock, American sergeant (d. 1999)
20th » Simon Keswick, Scottish businessman
21st » David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
21st » Danny Ongais, American race car driver
22nd » Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and academic
22nd » Barbara Parkins, Canadian-American actress
23rd » Zalman King, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
23rd » Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher, author, and academic
23rd » Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao, Indian director, screenwriter, and choreographer
9th » Blessed Józef Cebula, Beatification named beatified Polish priest, murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp called concentration camp (b. 1902)