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May 26 Events in History - May 26 Birthdays - May 26 Deaths
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May 26, 1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton May 26, 1997 Sammy Sosa (Cubs) and Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs May 26, 1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 66 performances May 26, 1996 Indianapolis 500 race May 26, 1996 Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game May 26, 1996 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 26, 1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) May 26, 1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time May 26, 1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich May 26, 1993 Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a home run May 26, 1992 Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR May 26, 1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour May 26, 1991 Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 26, 1990 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC May 26, 1990 Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 May 26, 1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio May 26, 1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals May 26, 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 26, 1988 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games May 26, 1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe May 26, 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka May 26, 1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail May 26, 1987 William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA May 26, 1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin May 26, 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die May 26, 1985 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic May 26, 1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia May 26, 1984 Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die May 26, 1983 29th Walker Cup: U.S., 13 -10 May 26, 1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 May 26, 1983 Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws May 26, 1983 NASA launches Exosat May 26, 1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 26, 1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam May 26, 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war May 26, 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 May 26, 1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8" May 26, 1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters May 26, 1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 May 26, 1979 Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 May 26, 1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City May 26, 1977 George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center May 26, 1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts May 26, 1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes May 26, 1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled May 26, 1974 Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic May 26, 1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution May 26, 1973 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 May 26, 1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) May 26, 1973 Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 May 26, 1973 Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 May 26, 1973 Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres May 26, 1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title May 26, 1972 Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord May 26, 1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 26, 1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance May 26, 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth May 26, 1969 John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) May 26, 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open May 26, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site May 26, 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at U.S. consulate in Hue South-Vietnam May 26, 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK May 26, 1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes May 26, 1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect May 26, 1964 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances May 26, 1963 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth May 26, 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open May 26, 1963 Organization of African Unity forms May 26, 1963 Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader May 26, 1962 "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances May 26, 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta May 26, 1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours May 26, 1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th May 26, 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed May 26, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) May 26, 1958 Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark May 26, 1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open May 26, 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 May 26, 1956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 May 26, 1955 "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 44 performances May 26, 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election May 26, 1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade May 26, 1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die May 26, 1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London May 26, 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers May 26, 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy May 26, 1946 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball May 26, 1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague May 26, 1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia May 26, 1946 Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb May 26, 1945 U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo May 26, 1944 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise May 26, 1943 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia) May 26, 1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam May 26, 1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa May 26, 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London May 26, 1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star May 26, 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army May 26, 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila May 26, 1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck May 26, 1941 German occupiers begin youth labor May 26, 1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk May 26, 1938 House on un-American Activities forms May 26, 1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms May 26, 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens May 26, 1936 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends May 26, 1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago May 26, 1933 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms May 26, 1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St. Louis Cardinals May 26, 1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo May 26, 1930 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway May 26, 1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution May 26, 1928 A's commit 7 errors and lose to Yanks 7-4 May 26, 1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile May 26, 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution May 26, 1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery May 26, 1925 Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139) May 26, 1924 German government of Marx resigns May 26, 1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration May 26, 1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run May 26, 1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg May 26, 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke May 26, 1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia May 26, 1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field May 26, 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England May 26, 1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (New York City) May 26, 1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run May 26, 1907 Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits New York Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game May 26, 1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms May 26, 1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia May 26, 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" May 26, 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa May 26, 1898 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32 May 26, 1898 San Francisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities May 26, 1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY May 26, 1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94) May 26, 1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned May 26, 1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player May 26, 1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state May 26, 1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 vs. England XI in 4 hours May 26, 1883 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42 May 26, 1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration May 26, 1874 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56 May 26, 1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote May 26, 1865 Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith May 26, 1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia May 26, 1864 Territory of Montana formed May 26, 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South May 26, 1861 Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama May 26, 1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy May 26, 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates May 26, 1824 Brazil is recognized by U.S. May 26, 1805 Lewis and Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains May 26, 1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy May 26, 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara May 26, 1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress May 26, 1781 Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia May 26, 1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French May 26, 1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony May 26, 1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven, Connecticut kills 500 indians May 26, 1596 England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain May 26, 1538 Geneve throws out Calvijn May 26, 1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII May 26, 961 German King Otto II crowned |