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May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219
days remaining before the end of the year.
Events
- 1328 - William of
Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
- 1538 - Geneva throws out John Calvin.
- 1637 - Pequot War: an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village
in Connecticut, killing approximately 500 inhabitants.
- 1670 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France. secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
- 1736 - Battle of Ackia:
British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
- 1805 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy.
- 1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar
Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1830 - The Indian
Removal Act was passed by the United States
Congress.
- 1864 - Montana is organized as a United States
territory.
- 1865 - American Civil
War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi
division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
- 1868 - The impeachment trial of
President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- 1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak
establishing an Afghan state.
- 1896 - Nicholas
II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1896 - Charles Dow publishes the
first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
- 1897 - The novel Dracula, by
Bram Stoker, goes on sale in London.
- 1906 - Vauxhall Bridge
opened in London.
- 1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major
commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
- 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
- 1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France,
Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.
- 1948 - The United
States Congress passes Public
Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as
an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
- 1963 - The Organization of African Unity forms.
- 1966 - British Guiana gains
independence, as Guyana.
- 1969 - Apollo program:
Apollo 10 returns to earth after a
successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned moon
landing.
- 1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
- 1986 - The European
Community adopts the European flag.
- 1991 - A Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 explodes over rural Thailand killing 223.
- 2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds
signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes
President of Colombia.
- 2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs
Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
Births
- 1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
- 1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (d. 1722)
- 1667 - Abraham de
Moivre, mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (d. 1760)
- 1764 - Edward
Livingston, jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
- 1799 - Aleksandr
Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
- 1822 - Edmond de
Goncourt, writer (d. 1896)
- 1865 - Robert W.
Chambers, artist (d. 1933)
- 1867 - Mary of Teck, queen
consort of King George V of the United
Kingdom (d. 1953)
- 1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958)
- 1878 - Isadora Duncan, dancer
(d. 1927)
- 1886 - Al Jolson (d. 1950)
- 1887 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971)
- 1893 - Norma Talmadge, actress (d. 1957)
- 1895 - Dorothea Lange,
photographer (d. 1965)
- 1907 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor
(d. 1979)
- 1908 - Robert Morley, actor (d.
1992)
- 1911 - Ben Alexander, actor (d.
1969)
- 1912 - Jay Silverheels,
actor (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Peter Cushing, actor (d.
1994)
- 1916 - Henriette
Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972)
- 1920 - Peggy Lee, singer (d. 2002)
- 1923 - James Arness, actor
- 1923 - Roy Dotrice, actor
- 1926 - Miles Davis, musician (d.
1991)
- 1928 - Jack Kevorkian,
physician
- 1939 - Brent Musburger, sports broadcaster
- 1941 - Cliff Drysdale, tennis star
- 1942 - Levon Helm, musician
("The Band")
- 1946 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d.
1993)
- 1948 - Stevie Nicks, songwriter,
actress
- 1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor
- 1949 - Hank Williams
Jr., singer
- 1949 - Ward Cunningham,
inventor of Wiki
- 1951 - Sally Ride, astronaut
- 1953 - Michael Portillo,
politician
- 1955 - Morimoto
Masaharu, Japanese chef (Iron Chef)
- 1955 - Doris Dörrie, actor and
screenplay writer
- 1957 - Margaret Colin,
actress
- 1958 - Pete Michaels, actor, comedian, ventriloquist
- 1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, actor, comedian
- 1964 - Lenny Kravitz,
guitarist, singer
- 1966 - Helena Bonham
Carter, actress
- 1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
Deaths
- 604 or 605 - Augustine of Canterbury
- 818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
- 946 - King Edmund I of
England (b. 921)
- 1648 - Vincent Voiture,
poet (b. 1597)
- 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English
civil servant, famous for his diary (b. 1633)
- 1824 - Capel Lofft, writer (b.
1751)
- 1881 - Jakob Bernays,
philologist (b. 1824)
- 1883 - Edward Sabine,
astronomer (b. 1788)
- 1902 - Almon Strowger,
developed the Strowger switch (b. 1839)
- 1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
- 1908 - Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadi sect (b. 1839)
- 1924 - Victor Herbert,
operetta composer (b. 1859)
- 1926 - Simon Petlyura,
Ukrainian independence fighter, known mostly by the pogroms done when he ruled Ukraine (b. 1879)
- 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, singer
(b. 1897)
- 1943 - Edsel Ford, president of the
Ford Motor Company (b. 1893)
- 1976 - Martin Heidegger,
German philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1995 - Friz Freleng, animator (b.
1905)
- 1999 - Waldo Semon, inventor (b.
1898)
- 2002 - Mamo Wolde, marathon runner (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Kathleen Winsor,
novelist (b. 1919)
Holidays and Observances
May 25 - May 27 - April 26 - June 26 - listing of all days
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