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Events from History on May 26

1328 : William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
1521 : Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
1538 : GenŠve throws out Calvijn
1596 : England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1637 : 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven Ct kills 500 indians
1647 : Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1736 : Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
1781 : Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia
1790 : Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
1798 : British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 : Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1805 : Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1824 : Brazil is recognized by US
1834 : Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1860 : Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861 : Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 : Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
1864 : -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1864 : Territory of Montana formed
1865 : Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
1868 : President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1876 : HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
1884 : Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours
1887 : Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state
1896 : 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896 : Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1896 : Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1898 : SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities
1900 : British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1903 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
1905 : A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1906 : Archaeological Institute of America forms
1911 : 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1913 : Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1915 : H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
1917 : Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
1918 : Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1922 : Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 : 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run
1923 : Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 : German govt of Marx resigns
1924 : Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
1925 : Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1925 : Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1926 : Lebanon adopts constitution
1927 : Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile
1928 : A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
1930 : Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
1930 : Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1932 : Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1933 : 2nd emergency Dutch govt of Colijn forms
1933 : Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
1934 : Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1936 : 1st govt of Zealand in Belgium ends
1937 : Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937 : San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
1938 : House on un-American Activities forms
1940 : Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
1941 : American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1941 : Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 : German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 : Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1942 : Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 : Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1943 : 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1943 : Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1943 : Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
1944 : 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste MŠre Eglise
1945 : US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 : 2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball
1946 : Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
1946 : Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 : Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1948 : Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 : South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy
1951 : Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London
1953 : Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1955 : "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 44 performances
1955 : Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1955 : Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 : Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
1956 : Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter,
1956 : broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
1958 : Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 : Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
1959 : Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
1961 : Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961 : USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1962 : "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1963 : 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1963 : Organization of African Unity forms
1963 : Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a doubleheader
1964 : "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 perfs
1965 : Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 : Revised Intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1966 : Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hu‚ South-Vietnam
1966 : Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1967 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1969 : John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1971 : Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1972 : Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 : Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1972 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 : Bahrain adopts it's constitution
1973 : Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres
1974 : During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
1977 : George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
1977 : Movie "Star Wars" debuts
1978 : 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1980 : Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
1980 : Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
1980 : Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 : Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1982 : British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1983 : 29th Walker Cup: US, 13«-10«
1983 : Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
1983 : NASA launches Exosat
1983 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 : Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
1984 : Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1984 : Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
1985 : Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1987 : Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
1987 : Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1987 : Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
1987 : William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
1989 : At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
1989 : Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1989 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 : Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR
1992 : Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
1993 : Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
1993 : Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's
1993 : head & goes over fence for a home run
1994 : Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
1996 : "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 66 perfs
1996 : Indianapolis 500 race
1997 : Sammy Sosa (Cubs) & Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs
1998 : Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs Pres Clinton
2002 : Pakistan tests Ghajnavi mid-range missile.

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