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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.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
4.1 Liturgical Feast days
5 External links
Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practise Christianity .
1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura , Japan , kills 30,000.
1328 - William of Ockham , Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena , and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon , go a sentence of death from Pope John XXII .
1538 - Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
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.
1670 - In Dover , King Charles II of England and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover .
1736 - Battle of Ackia : British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day 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 .
1770 - The Orlov Revolt , a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1805 - 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 cathedral in Milan .
1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg .
1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress ; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
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.
1869 - Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state .
1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1896 - 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 .
1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London .
1908 - At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) 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 .
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.
1928 - The first motion picture is projected publically in Athens , Greece .
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 , Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk .
1948 - The 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 for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal .
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 .
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.
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 the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand , killing 223.
1992 - Charles Geschke , co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California . The FBI rescues him four days later.
1999 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League to complete an unprecedented treble .
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.
2004 - The New York Times 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction .
2006 - The 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
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 )
1863 - Robert Fitzsimmons , Boxing champion (d. 1917 )
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 , Norwegian artist (d. 1958 )
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 )
1899 - Antonio Barrette , Quebec politician (d. 1968 )
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter , Polish pianist (d. 2002 )
1907 - John Wayne , American actor (d. 1979 )
1907 - Jean Bernard , French physician (d. 2006 )
1908 - Robert Morley , English actor (d. 1992 )
1909 - Sir Matt Busby , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994 )
1909 - Adolfo López Mateos , President of Mexico (d. 1969 )
1911 - Ben Alexander , American actor (d. 1969 )
1912 - Jay Silverheels , American actor (d. 1980 )
1912 - János Kádár , Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989 )
1913 - Peter Cushing , English actor (d. 1994 )
1914 - Frankie Manning , American Lindy Hop dancer
1915 - Sam Edwards , American actor (d. 2004 )
1915 - Antonia Forest , British children's author (d. 2003 )
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg , Dutch journalist (d. 1972 )
1918 - Anton Christoforidis , Greek boxer (d. 1985 )
1920 - Peggy Lee , American singer (d. 2002 )
1923 - James Arness , American actor
1923 - Roy Dotrice , British actor
1926 - Miles Davis , American musician
1928 - Jack Kevorkian , American physician
1938 - William Bolcom , American composer
1938 - Teresa Stratas , Canadian soprano
1938 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya , Russian playwright and novelist
1939 - Merab Kostava , Georgian anti-Soviet leader
1939 - Brent Musburger , American sports broadcaster
1940 - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay , Quebec politician
1940 - Levon Helm , American musician (The Band )
1941 - Cliff Drysdale , South African-born tennis player
1943 - Erica Terpstra , President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
1944 - Sam Posey , American racing driver
1946 - Mick Ronson , English musician (d. 1993 )
1948 - Stevie Nicks , American songwriter
1949 - Ward Cunningham , American inventor
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas , American actor
1949 - Hank Williams Jr. , American singer
1949 - Pam Grier , American actress
1951 - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn , Irish politician
1951 - Sally Ride , American astronaut
1952 - David Meece , Christian musician
1953 - Michael Portillo , British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst , British novelist
1954 - Danny Rolling , American murderer (d. 2006 )
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto , Japanese chef
1955 - Wesley Walker , American football player
1956 - Frédéric Dutoit , French politician
1957 - Margaret Colin , American actress
1957 - Kristina Olsen , American musician
1957 - Roberto Ravaglia , Italian racing driver
1957 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle , Lesotho academic and politician
1959 - Steve Hanley , English musician
1960 - Rob Murphy , American baseball player
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait , American actor
1962 - Genie Francis , American actress
1964 - Lenny Kravitz , American musician
1964 - Caitlín R. Kiernan , Irish-American writer
1965 - Hazel Irvine , British television presenter
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter , English actress
1966 - Zola Budd , South African athlete
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 - Pat Kenney , American wrestler
1969 - Steven Eric Goryan , IT specialist, Naturalist
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki , Japanese cartoonist
1971 - Ivan O. Godfroid , Belgian writer
1971 - Matt Stone , American television producer
1972 - Patsy Palmer , British actress
1974 - Lars Frölander , Swedish swimmer
1975 - Travis Lee , American baseball player
1976 - Justin Pierre , American singer (Motion City Soundtrack )
1977 - Mark Hunter , American musician (Chimaira )
1977 - Misaki Ito , Japanese actress
1977 - Luca Toni , Italian soccer player
1979 - Ashley Massaro , American wrestler
1980 - David Burt , IT specialist
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois , American actress
1981 - Irini Merkouri , Greek singer
1982 - Yoko Matsugane , Japanese model
1991 - Julianna Rose Mauriello , American actress
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 )
1831 - Ciro Menotti , Italian patriot (b. 1798 )
1840 - Sidney Smith , British admiral (b. 1764 )
1881 - Jakob Bernays , German philologist (b. 1824 )
1883 - Edward Sabine , Irish astronomer (b. 1788 )
1883 - Abd al-Qadir , Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808 )
1902 - Almon Strowger , American inventor (b. 1839 )
1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette , French neurologist (b. 1857 )
1907 - Ida McKinley , First Lady of the United States (b. 1847 )
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (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 , American singer (b. 1897 )
1939 - Charles Horace Mayo , American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic ) (b. 1865 )
1943 - Edsel Ford , American automobile executive (b. 1893 )
1948 - Theodore Morell , Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886 )
1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth , American scientist (b. 1880 )
1954 - Lionel Conacher , Canadian athlete (b. 1900 )
1955 - Alberto Ascari , Italian race car driver (b. 1918 )
1968 - Little Willie John , American singer (b. 1937 )
1969 - Paul Hawkins , Australian racing driver (b. 1937 )
1974 - Silvio Moser , Swiss racing driver (b. 1941 )
1976 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (b. 1889 )
1978 - Cybele , Greek actress (b. 1887 )
1979 - George Brent , British actor (b. 1899 )
1995 - Friz Freleng , American animator (b. 1905 )
1999 - Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor (b. 1906 )
1999 - Waldo Semon , American inventor (b. 1898 )
2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi , Defence Minister of Zimbabwe is killed in a car crash.
2001 - Vittorio Brambilla , Italian racing driver (b. 1937 )
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 (b. 1934 )
2005 - Eddie Albert , American actor (b. 1906 )
2005 - Chico Carrasquel , Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928 )
2006 - Édouard Michelin , CEO of Michelin (b. 1963 )
2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan , Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919 )
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