Notable Historical Events on May 26th
May 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 practice Christianity. |
961 |
German King Otto II crowned |
1328 |
William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by 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. |
1596 |
England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain |
1637 |
1st battle of Pequot at Mystic, Connnecticut kills 500 indians |
1647 |
Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony |
1647 |
Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut. |
1736 |
Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French |
1770 |
The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks. |
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 Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy |
1824 |
Brazil is recognized by US |
1828 |
Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. |
1834 |
Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates |
1857 |
US slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow 3 months after US courts ruled against them. |
1860 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy |
1861 |
US 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 |
1869 |
Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
1874 |
2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5 |
1876 |
HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration |
1883 |
11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42.5 |
1884 |
Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours |
1887 |
Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state |
1894 |
Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player |
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 Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned |
1896 |
James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California. |
1898 |
32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32 |
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 Three Gables" (BG) |
1904 |
In two days of bitter fighting, the Japanese Army soundly defeats the Russians at Kinchan and captures the forts at Nanshan |
1905 |
A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia |
1906 |
Archaeological Institute of America forms |
1906 |
Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. |
1907 |
Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game |
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. |
1911 |
Germany passes legislation organizing Alsace and Lorraine as an autonomous state with a legislature |
1913 |
US Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC) |
1913 |
Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate. |
1915 |
H. H. Asquith forms a coalition government in the United Kingdom |
1917 |
Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field |
1918 |
Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia |
1918 |
Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat. |
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 government of Marx resigns |
1924 |
Pres Calvin 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 |
Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie |
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 government of Colijn forms |
1933 |
Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards |
1934 |
Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago |
1936 |
1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends |
1937 |
Dutch Rail NV at law forms |
1937 |
San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens |
1938 |
US House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activities forms |
1940 |
1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky |
1941 |
American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila |
1941 |
Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal 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: Afrika Korps vs British army |
1943 |
Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit US |
1943 |
Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam |
1943 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa |
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 government under D.F. Malan with an 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 |
A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew |
1956 |
Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 |
1957 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
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 win |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
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 International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect |
1966 |
Buddhist sets himself on fire at US consulate in Hué, South Vietnam |
1966 |
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK |
1967 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1969 |
Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth |
1969 |
John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) |
1970 |
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. |
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 |
1972 |
The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank. |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb in Oxford Street, Belfast, killing a 64 year old woman |
1972 |
In the Republic of Ireland, the Special Criminal Court is re-instituted to deal with crimes arising out of the Northern Ireland conflict; as part of the measures trial by jury is suspended. |
1973 |
Bahrain adopts its constitution |
1973 |
Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1 |
1973 |
Chicago White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) |
1973 |
Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 |
1973 |
Super Fly Meets Shaft by John & Ernest hits #31 |
1973 |
Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata premieres |
1974 |
During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14-year old is trampled |
1974 |
Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic |
1974 |
Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 3:09:10.094 (255.224 km/h) |
1975 |
Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes |
1977 |
George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center |
1978 |
1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City |
1979 |
Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 |
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 |
1981 |
The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). |
1982 |
Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam |
1982 |
British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters & destroyer HMS Coventry were hit in Falkland war |
1983 |
29th Walker Cup: US, 13½ - 10½ |
1983 |
Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 |
1983 |
LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws |
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 |
1984 |
US President President Ronald Reagan rules out US military intervention in Iran-Iraq war |
1985 |
Indianapolis 500: Danny Sullivan wins by 24 seconds following a spin |
1985 |
Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die |
1985 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1987 |
Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe |
1987 |
Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka |
1987 |
US Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail |
1987 |
William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA |
1988 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
1989 |
At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio |
1989 |
Danish parliament allows same-sex marriage |
1989 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1990 |
Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 |
1991 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
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 |
Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich |
1993 |
Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head & goes over fence for a home run |
1996 |
"Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 66 perfs |
1996 |
Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game |
1996 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1996 |
Indianapolis 500: Buddy Lazier wins in 3:22:45.753 (238.112 km/h) |
1997 |
Sammy Sosa (Cubs) & Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs |
1998 |
Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton |
1998 |
The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York. |
2002 |
The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars. |
2002 |
Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia. |
2002 |
Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:00:10.871 (267.954 km/h) |
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 publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. |
2004 |
The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2004 |
39th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith & Martina McBride wins |
2006 |
The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless. |
2012 |
A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvinkaa kills 2, wounds 7 |
2012 |
Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents |
2013 |
The Mumbai Indians defeat the Chennai Super Kings to win the Indian 20/20 Premier League |
2013 |
Golfer Matteo Manassero wins the BMW PGA Championship |
2013 |
Indianapolis 500: Tony Kanaan wins in 2:40:03.4181 (301.644 km/h) |
2014 |
Narendra Modi becomes President of India |
2016 |
EgyptAir Enlists European Companies to Look for Black Boxes From Flight 804 |
2016 |
Florida judge denies Gawker new trial in Hulk Hogan case |
2016 |
States ratchet up transgender battle with lawsuit against US |
2016 |
Texas to sue to stop US government's transgender bathroom policy |
2016 |
CDC: 1% to 13% of Zika-infected babies could have microcephaly |
2016 |
Arizona sues over Obama bathroom directives |
2016 |
State department faults Clinton over email security |
2017 |
Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election a day after being charged with assault |
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