Wikipedia: May 26

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

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 Nurenberg, 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
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.

Births

1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (+ 1722)
1667 - Abraham de Moivre, mathematician (+ 1754)
1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (+ 1760)
1764 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (+ 1836)
1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (+ 1837)
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, writer (+ 1896)
1865 - Robert W. Chambers, artist (+ 1933)
1867 - Mary of Teck, queen consort of King George V of the United Kingdom (+ 1953)
1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (+ 1958)
1878 - Isadora Duncan, dancer (+ 1927)
1886 - Al Jolson (+ 1950)
1887 - Paul Lukas, actor (+ 1971)
1893 - Norma Talmadge, actress (+ 1957)
1907 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (+ 1979)
1908 - Robert Morley, actor (+ 1992)
1911 - Ben Alexander, actor (+ 1969)
1912 - Jay Silverheels, actor (+ 1980)
1913 - Peter Cushing, actor (+ 1994)
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (+ 1972)
1920 - Peggy Lee, singer (+ 2002)
1923 - James Arness, actor
1923 - Roy Dotrice, actor
1926 - Miles Davis, musician (+ 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 (+ 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 - 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
1975 - Lauryn Hill, hip-hop singer

Deaths

604 or 605 - Augustine of Canterbury
946 - King Edmund I of England
1648 - Vincent Voiture, poet
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary
1824 - Capel Lofft, writer
1881 - Jakob Bernays, philologist
1883 - Edward Sabine, astronomer
1902 - Almon Strowger, developed the Strowger switch
1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadi sect
1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, singer
1943 - Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company
1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
1995 - Friz Freleng, animator
1999 - Waldo Semon, inventor
2002 - Mamo Wolde, marathon runner
2003 - Kathleen Winsor, novelist

Holidays and Observances

See Also:

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