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May 26
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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.
Events
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1328 -
William of Ockham,
Franciscans Franciscan Minister-General
Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave
Avignon, fearing a sentence of death from
Pope John XXII.
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1538 -
Geneva expels
John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in
Strasbourg for the next three years.
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1637 -
Pequot War: A combined
Puritan and
Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a
Pequot village in
Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
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1670 - In
Dover, England Dover,
Charles II of England King Charles II of
Kingdom of England England and
Louis XIV of France King Louis XIV of
France sign the
Treaty of Dover Secret Treaty of Dover.
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1736 -
Battle of Ackia:
Kingdom of Great Britain British and
Chickasaw soldiers repel a
French colonization of the Americas French and
Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day
Tupelo, Mississippi Tupelo,
Mississippi. The French, under
Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with
Acadia and the other northern colonies of
New France.
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1805 -
Napoleon I of France Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of
King of Italy and is crowned with the
Iron Crown of Lombardy in the
Duomo di Milano Gothic architecture gothic cathedral in
Milan.
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1828 - Mysterious
feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of
Nuremberg.
*
1830 - The
Indian Removal Act is passed by the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by
President of the United States President Andrew Jackson two days later.
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1864 -
Montana is organized as a
Political divisions of the United States United States territory.
*
1865 -
American Civil War:
Confederate States of America 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 of the United States 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.
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1889 - Opening of the first
Eiffel Tower elevator to the public
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1896 -
Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II becomes
Tsar of
Russia.
*1896 -
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the
Dow Jones Industrial Average.
*1896 -
James Dunham murders six people in
Campbell, California.
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1897 -
Bram Stoker's novel ''
Dracula'' goes on sale in
London.
*
1906 -
Vauxhall Bridge is opened in
London.
*
1908 - At
Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest
Iran 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.
*
1917 - A powerful F4
tornado rips
Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world´s longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
*
1918 - The
Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
*
1936 - In the
House of Commons of Northern Ireland,
Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
*
1938 - The
House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
*
1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Dunkirk – In
France,
Allies Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from
Dunkirk, France Dunkirk.
*
1948 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress passes
Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the
Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the
United States Air Force.
*
1963 - The
Organisation of African Unity is formed.
*
1966 -
British Guiana gains independence, becoming
Guyana.
*
1969 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 10 returns to
earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned
moon landing.
*1969 -
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono begin their second
Bed-In Bed-In for Peace at the
Queen Elizabeth Hotel in
Montreal.
*
1970 - The
Soviet Union Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed
speed of sound Mach 2.
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1972 -
Willandra National Park is established in
Australia.
*1972 - The
United States and the
Soviet Union sign the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
*
1977 -
George Willig climbs the South Tower of
New York City's
World Trade Center.
*
1978 - In
Atlantic City, New Jersey,
Resorts International, the first legal
casino in the eastern
United States, opens.
*
1982 -
Aston Villa Football Club win the
European Cup, beating
Bayern Munich 1-0 in
Rotterdam.
*
1983 - Strong 7.7 magnitude
earthquake strikes
Japan, triggers a
tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many missing people and thousands of buildings destroyed.
*
1986 - The
European Community adopts the
European flag.
*
1991 -
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected
President of Georgia President of the
Georgia (country) Republic of Georgia in the post-
Soviet Union Soviet era.
*1991 -
Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural
Thailand, killing 223.
*
1995 -
Teresa Heinz marries
U.S. Senate U.S. Senator John Kerry on
Nantucket, Massachusetts.
*
1999 -
Manchester United win the
UEFA Champions League and complete a historic and unprecedented treble.
*
2002 - The
Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet
Mars (planet) Mars.
*2002 -
Ã?lvaro Uribe becomes
List of Presidents of Colombia 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.
*
2004 - ''
The New York Times'' publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the
2003 invasion of Iraq 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of
weapons of mass destruction.
Births
*
1264 -
Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d.
1326)
*
1478 -
Pope Clement VII (d.
1534)
*
1566 -
Mehmed III,
Ottoman Emperor (d.
1603)
*
1602 -
Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d.
1674)
*
1650 -
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d.
1722)
*
1667 -
Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d.
1754)
*
1669 -
Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d.
1722)
*
1689 -
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d.
1762)
*
1700 -
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d.
1760)
*
1764 -
Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d.
1836)
*
1799 -
Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d.
1837)
*
1822 -
Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d.
1896)
*
1865 -
Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d.
1933)
*
1867 -
Mary of Teck, wife of
George V of the United Kingdom (d.
1953)
*
1873 -
Olaf Gulbransson,
Norway Norwegian artist
*
1878 -
Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d.
1927)
*
1886 -
Al Jolson, American singer (d.
1950)
*
1887 -
Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d.
1971)
*
1893 -
Norma Talmadge, American actress (d.
1957)
*
1895 -
Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d.
1965)
*
1907 -
Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d.
1964)
*1907 -
John Wayne, American actor (d.
1979)
*1907 -
Jean Bernard (physician) Jean Bernard, French physician
*
1908 -
Robert Morley, English actor (d.
1992
*
1909 -
Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d.
1994)
*
1911 -
Ben Alexander, American actor (d.
1969)
*
1912 -
Jay Silverheels, American actor (d.
1980)
*
1914 -
Frankie Manning, American
Lindy Hop dancer
*
1913 -
Peter Cushing, English actor (d.
1994)
*
1915 -
Sam Edwards, American actor (d.
2004)
*1915 -
Antonia Forest, British children's author (d.
2003)
*
1916 -
Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d.
1972)
*
1920 -
Peggy Lee, American singer (d.
2002)
*
1923 -
James Arness, American actor
*1923 -
Roy Dotrice, British actor
*
1926 -
Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d.
1991)
*
1928 -
Jack Kevorkian, American physician
*
1938 -
William Bolcom, American composer
*1938 -
Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
*
1939 -
Merab Kostava, one of the leaders of
Georgian anti-soviet movement,
national hero of Georgia
*1939 -
Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
*
1941 -
Cliff Drysdale, South African-born tennis player
*
1942 -
Levon Helm, American musician (
The Band)
*
1943 -
Erica Terpstra, Dutch swimmer, politician and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee
*
1946 -
Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d.
1993)
*
1948 -
Stevie Nicks, American songwriter and actress
*
1949 -
Ward Cunningham, American inventor
*1949 -
Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
*1949 -
Hank Williams Jr., American singer
*
1951 -
Sally Ride, astronaut
*
1953 -
Michael Portillo, British politician
*
1954 -
Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
*
1955 -
Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
*1955 -
Wesley Walker, american football player
*
1957 -
Margaret Colin, American actress
*1957 -
Kristina Olsen, American musician
*
1962 -
Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
*1962 -
Genie Francis, American actress
*
1964 -
Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer
*
1965 -
Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
*
1966 -
Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
*
1968 -
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
*
1970 -
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
*
1971 -
Matt Stone, American television producer
*
1974 -
Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
*
1977 -
Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
*1977 -
Luca Toni, Italian soccer player
*
1979 -
Ashley Massaro, WWE Diva
*
1982 -
Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
*
1989 -
Kent Burton, Movie Star
Deaths
*
604 -
Augustine of Canterbury,
Archbishop of Canterbury
*
818 -
Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b.
766)
*
946 - King
Edmund I of England (b.
921)
*
1055 - Margrave
Adalbert of Austria
*
1421 -
Mehmed I,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1389)
*
1512 -
Bayezid II,
Ottoman Sultan
*
1536 -
Francesco Berni, Italian poet
*
1595 -
Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b.
1515)
*
1648 -
Vincent Voiture, French poet (b.
1597)
*
1653 -
Robert Filmer, English writer (b.
1588)
*
1679 -
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b.
1636)
*
1685 -
Karl II, Elector Palatine (b.
1651)
*
1703 -
Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b.
1633)
*
1762 -
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b.
1714)
*
1799 -
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b.
1714)
*
1824 -
Capel Lofft, English writer (b.
1751)
*
1840 -
Sidney Smith (admiral) Sidney Smith, British admiral (b.
1764)
*
1881 -
Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b.
1824)
*
1883 -
Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b.
1788)
*
1902 -
Almon Strowger, American inventor (b.
1839)
*
1907 -
Ida McKinley,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1847)
*
1908 -
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Ahmadi sect (b.
1839)
*
1924 -
Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b.
1859)
*
1926 -
Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b.
1879)
*
1933 -
Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b.
1860)
*1933 -
Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b.
1897)
*
1943 -
Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b.
1893)
*
1951 -
Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b.
1880)
*
1955 -
Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b.
1918)
*
1976 -
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b.
1889)
*
1995 -
Friz Freleng, American animator (b.
1905)
*
1999 -
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b.
1906)
*1999 -
Waldo Semon, American inventor (b.
1898)
*
2002 -
Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b.
1932)
*
2003 -
Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b.
1919)
*
2004 -
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b.
1931)
*2004 -
Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b.
1934)
*
2005 -
Eddie Albert, American actor (b.
1906)
*2005 -
Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (b.
1928)
Holidays and observances
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Australia -
National Sorry Day
*
Poland -
Mother's Day
*
Georgia (country) Georgia -
National Day
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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May 25 -
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April 26 -
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historical anniversaries listing of all days
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