May 26
1521 - Martin Luther's writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the U.S. Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94.
1908 - The first major oil strike in the Middle East took place as engineers working for British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy hit a gusher in Masjid-i-Suleiman in present-day Iran.
1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
1940 - Allied troops began the massive naval evacuation of more than 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France during World War II.
1954 - Explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off the coast of Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)
1969 - Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1972 - President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
1977 - George Willig, known by some as "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb. He was fined $1.10 -- a penny per floor.
1978 - The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1981 - Fourteen people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of Florida.
1994 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, in the Dominican Republic. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island -- the historic gateway for millions of immigrants -- was mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court made it far more difficult for police to be sued by people hurt during high-speed chases.
2003 - Rwandans voted to approve a new constitution that instituted a balance of power between Hutu and Tutsi.
2004 - Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping to carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. (Nichols later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)
2005 - President George W. Bush received Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House; Bush called Abbas a courageous democratic reformer and bolstered his standing at home with $50 million in assistance.
2009 - President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2009 - California's Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid.
2011 - Congress passed a four-year extension of the post-Sept. 11 powers contained in the Patriot Act to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists; President Barack Obama, in France, signed the measure using an autopen machine minutes before the provisions were set to expire at midnight.
2011 - Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general responsible for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, is found and arrested after a 16-year manhunt in Lazarevo, a farming town north of Belgrade, Serbia.
2015 - Challenging Hillary Rodham Clinton from the left, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders formally kicked off his Democratic presidential bid in Burlington, Vermont, with a pitch to liberals to join him in a “political revolution” to transform the nation’s economy and politics.
2016 - President Barack Obama, visiting Japan, said foreign leaders were “rattled” by Donald Trump and had good reason to feel that way, as he accused the presumptive Republican presidential nominee of ignorance about world affairs.
2020 - Minneapolis police issued a statement saying George Floyd had died after a “medical incident,” and that he physically resisted officers and appeared to be in medical distress; minutes after the statement was released, bystander video was posted online. Protests over Floyd’s death began, with tense skirmishes developing between protesters and Minneapolis police. Four police officers who were involved in Floyd’s arrest were fired.
Birthdays
22 - Molly-Mae Hague (model)
26 - Kailin Chase (model)
30 - Julianna Rose Mauriello (actress)
34 - Brandi Cyrus (actress)
42 - Hrach Titizian (actor)
42 - Elisabeth Harnois (actress)
46 - Lauryn Hill (singer)
50 - Matt Stone (actor/producer)
51 - Joseph Fiennes (actor)
55 - Zola Budd (runner)
55 - Helena Bonham Carter (actress)
57 - Lenny Kravitz (actor/singer)
59 - Bobcat Goldthwait (comedian/actor)
59 - Genie Francis (actress)
61 - Doug Hutchison (actor)
62 - Dave Robbins (country singer)
63 - Margaret Colin (actress)
72 - Hank Williams Jr. (country singer)
72 - Philip Michael Thomas (actor)
72 - Pam Grier (actress)
73 - Stevie Nicks (singer)
82 - Brent Musberger (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - May 26
1923 - The first Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance began. The race was won by Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard. The race ended the next day.
1925 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers became the first player in major league history to record 1,000 career extra-base hits.
1959 - Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a perfect game through 12 innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing 1-0 in the 13th.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies set a National League record with his sixth career one-hitter.
1988 - The Edmonton Oilers swept the Boston Bruins to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five seasons.
1990 - The Philadelphia Phillies retired Mike Schmidt's #20.
1521 - Martin Luther's writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the U.S. Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94.
1908 - The first major oil strike in the Middle East took place as engineers working for British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy hit a gusher in Masjid-i-Suleiman in present-day Iran.
1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
1940 - Allied troops began the massive naval evacuation of more than 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France during World War II.
1954 - Explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off the coast of Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)
1969 - Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1972 - President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
1977 - George Willig, known by some as "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb. He was fined $1.10 -- a penny per floor.
1978 - The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1981 - Fourteen people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the coast of Florida.
1994 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, in the Dominican Republic. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island -- the historic gateway for millions of immigrants -- was mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court made it far more difficult for police to be sued by people hurt during high-speed chases.
2003 - Rwandans voted to approve a new constitution that instituted a balance of power between Hutu and Tutsi.
2004 - Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping to carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. (Nichols later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)
2005 - President George W. Bush received Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House; Bush called Abbas a courageous democratic reformer and bolstered his standing at home with $50 million in assistance.
2009 - President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2009 - California's Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid.
2011 - Congress passed a four-year extension of the post-Sept. 11 powers contained in the Patriot Act to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists; President Barack Obama, in France, signed the measure using an autopen machine minutes before the provisions were set to expire at midnight.
2011 - Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general responsible for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, is found and arrested after a 16-year manhunt in Lazarevo, a farming town north of Belgrade, Serbia.
2015 - Challenging Hillary Rodham Clinton from the left, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders formally kicked off his Democratic presidential bid in Burlington, Vermont, with a pitch to liberals to join him in a “political revolution” to transform the nation’s economy and politics.
2016 - President Barack Obama, visiting Japan, said foreign leaders were “rattled” by Donald Trump and had good reason to feel that way, as he accused the presumptive Republican presidential nominee of ignorance about world affairs.
2020 - Minneapolis police issued a statement saying George Floyd had died after a “medical incident,” and that he physically resisted officers and appeared to be in medical distress; minutes after the statement was released, bystander video was posted online. Protests over Floyd’s death began, with tense skirmishes developing between protesters and Minneapolis police. Four police officers who were involved in Floyd’s arrest were fired.
Birthdays
22 - Molly-Mae Hague (model)
26 - Kailin Chase (model)
30 - Julianna Rose Mauriello (actress)
34 - Brandi Cyrus (actress)
42 - Hrach Titizian (actor)
42 - Elisabeth Harnois (actress)
46 - Lauryn Hill (singer)
50 - Matt Stone (actor/producer)
51 - Joseph Fiennes (actor)
55 - Zola Budd (runner)
55 - Helena Bonham Carter (actress)
57 - Lenny Kravitz (actor/singer)
59 - Bobcat Goldthwait (comedian/actor)
59 - Genie Francis (actress)
61 - Doug Hutchison (actor)
62 - Dave Robbins (country singer)
63 - Margaret Colin (actress)
72 - Hank Williams Jr. (country singer)
72 - Philip Michael Thomas (actor)
72 - Pam Grier (actress)
73 - Stevie Nicks (singer)
82 - Brent Musberger (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - May 26
1923 - The first Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance began. The race was won by Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard. The race ended the next day.
1925 - Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers became the first player in major league history to record 1,000 career extra-base hits.
1959 - Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a perfect game through 12 innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing 1-0 in the 13th.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies set a National League record with his sixth career one-hitter.
1988 - The Edmonton Oilers swept the Boston Bruins to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five seasons.
1990 - The Philadelphia Phillies retired Mike Schmidt's #20.
