May 2012 AHXARL Schedule
All races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1
This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 26 Race 12, Tuesday 01 May, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host spammer.
In Germany... 01 May, 1945, Hamburg radio announces that Hitler is dead and that Donitz is the second Fuhrer of the Reich. Donitz himself broadcasts, announcing that "it is my duty to save the German people from destruction by Bolshevists." Meanwhile, in Berlin, Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after poisoning their six children. Martin Bormann disappears. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 26 Finale Tuesday 08 May, 2012. The culmination of the 12 races of Season 26, and the half way point for qualifying for the prestigious 68KO Cup Race, held following the finale race of Season 28, some 26 weeks hence. This race will be hosted by one or more members of the AHXARL CM Team.
In Britain... 08 May, 1945, Victory in Europe -- VE Day -- is celebrated. Churchill and King George VI make special broadcasts to mark the occasion.
In France... 08 May, 1945, VE Day is celebrated in Paris with fireworks and extra rations of wine.
In Berlin... 08 May, 1945, The German surrender is ratified. For Germany, Keitel, Freideburg and Stumpf sign, and for the Allies, Spaatz, Tedder, Zhukov and de Lattre. Hostilities officially end at one minute past midnight. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 27 Race 01, Tuesday 15 May, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host RDRTrash. This is yet another opportunity for the novice racer to get in the race game, at the beginning of a new 12 week season. As you race your way through the season you accumulate points based on how well you finish. Even crashing gains you a point, and each race night we fly three heats, giving you three chances for a finish.
In the Ryukyu Islands... 15 May, 1945, On Okinawa, slow American advances and costly Japanese counterattacks continue. Heavy fighting is reported around the Sugar Loaf Hill and Conical Hill positions. Marines on Sugar Loaf Hill, elements of US 3rd Amphibious Corps, withdraw because of Japanese fire. The US 1st Marine Division advances along the Wana river valley, west of Shuri, against heavy Japanese resistance. The US 305th and 77th Divisions, of US 24th Corps, achieve limited progress and have been reduced to 25 percent effectiveness in the fighting. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 27 Race 02. Tuesday, 22 May, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host BMathis. Still early in the season of 12 races.
In Occupied Germany... 22 May, 1945, Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS, is captured by a British patrol at Bremervorde, near Hamburg. He initially claimed to be a rural policeman named Heinrich Hitzinger but under interrogation he removed the black eye patch he was wearing and put on his familiar glasses before admitting his true identity. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
Season 27 Race 03. Tuesday, 29 May, 2012. Races start 10:00 PM Eastern and 7:00 PM Pacific in SEA 1. Scheduled Host HB555.
Over Japan... 29 May, 1945, American B-29 Superfortress bombers drop incendiaries on Yokohama, burning 85 percent of the port area. This Day in History taken from onwar.com
