
May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). There are 219 days remaining before the end of the year. ==Events== *1328 - William of Ockham, Franciscans Minister-General Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a sentence of death from Pope John XXII. In December 1327, Ockham was brought into a theological dispute with the pope on the issue of Franciscans taking a vow of poverty. When Michael Cesena asked him to comment on the dispute (Cesena believed in the vow of poverty but the pope disagreed), Ockham wrote the reply accusing John of heresy. Upon learning on their imminent condemnation, Ockham fled the city under the protection of Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who was also in conflict with the pope over papal authority over the Holy Roman Empire and had been excommunication in 1324. *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, England, Charles II of England of Kingdom of England and Louis XIV of France of France sign the Treaty of Dover. The treaty requires France to assist England in its aim to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church. It also compelled England to withdraw from the Triple Alliance (1668) with the Netherlands and Sweden against France, and also to assist France in its war of conquest against the United Provinces. This led to the Third Anglo-Dutch War from 1672 to 1674. *1736 - Battle of Ackia: Kingdom of Great Britain and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French colonization of the Americas and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi, 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. *1805 - Napoleon I of France (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano Gothic architecture in Milan. *1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. *1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the Congress of the United States; it is signed into law by President of the United States Andrew Jackson two days later. *1864 - Montana is organized as a Political divisions of the United States. *1865 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America 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 of the United States Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. *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 of Russia becomes Tsar of Russia. * 1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. *1897 - Bram Stoker's novel ''Dracula'' goes on sale in London. *1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. *1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. *1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. *1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session. *1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allies forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. *1948 - The Congress of the United States 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 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. *1970 - The Soviet Union Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed speed of sound 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. *1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag. *1991 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of Georgia of the Georgia (country) in the post-Soviet Union era. * 1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223. *2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars (planet). *2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes List of Presidents 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'' publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. ==Births== *1264 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan (d. 1326) *1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) *1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (d. 1722) *1667 - Abraham de Moivre, mathematician (d. 1754) *1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760) *1764 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (d. 1836) *1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837) *1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896) *1865 - Robert W. Chambers, artist (d. 1933) *1867 - Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953) *1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958) *1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927) *1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950) *1887 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971) *1893 - Norma Talmadge, actress (d. 1957) *1895 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965) *1907 - Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964) *1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979) *1908 - Robert Morley, actor (d. 1992) *1911 - Ben Alexander, actor (d. 1969) *1912 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980) *1913 - Peter Cushing, actor (d. 1994) *1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972) *1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002) *1923 - James Arness, actor *1923 - Roy Dotrice, actor *1926 - Miles Davis, U.S. musician and composer (d. 1991) *1928 - Jack Kevorkian, American physician *1938 - William Bolcom, American composer *1938 - Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano *1939 - Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster *1941 - Cliff Drysdale, tennis star *1942 - Levon Helm, musician (The Band) *1946 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d. 1993) *1948 - Stevie Nicks, songwriter and actress *1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor *1949 - Hank Williams Jr., American singer *1949 - Ward Cunningham, American inventor of Wiki *1951 - Sally Ride, U.S. astronaut *1953 - Michael Portillo, British politician *1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist *1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef *1957 - Margaret Colin, actress *1958 - Pete Michaels, actor, comedian, and ventriloquist *1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, U.S. actor and comedian *1964 - Lenny Kravitz, guitarist and singer *1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress *1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark *1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, manga-ka *1971 - Matt Stone, co-creator of ''South Park'' *1982 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model ==Deaths== *604 or 605 - Augustine of Canterbury *818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766) *946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921) *1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria *1648 - Vincent Voiture, poet (b. 1597) *1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633) *1824 - Capel Lofft, writer (b. 1751) *1881 - Jakob Bernays, philologist (b. 1824) *1883 - Edward Sabine, astronomer (b. 1788) *1902 - Almon Strowger, developed the Strowger switch (b. 1839) *1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847) *1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadi sect (b. 1839) *1924 - Victor Herbert, operetta composer (b. 1859) *1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukraine independence fighter, known mostly by the pogroms done when he ruled Ukraine (b. 1879) *1933 - Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), U.S. singer (b. 1897) *1943 - Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company (b. 1893) *1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, USA scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880) *1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italy race car driver (b. 1918) *1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889) *1995 - Friz Freleng, animator (b. 1905) *1999 - Waldo Semon, inventor (b. 1898) *2002 - Mamo Wolde, marathon (sport) runner (b. 1932) *2003 - Kathleen Winsor, novelist (b. 1919) *2005 - Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game (b. 1928) *2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906) *2005 - Krzystof Nowak, former Polish football (soccer) player, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (b. 1975) ==Holidays and observances== * Australia - National Sorry Day * Poland - Mother's Day * Georgia (country) - National Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26 BBC: On This Day] ---- May 25 - May 27 - April 26 - June 26 – historical anniversaries li:26 mei th:26 พฤษภาคม
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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 before the end of the year. ==Events== *1328 - William of Ockham, Franciscans Minister-General Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a sentence of death from Pope John XXII. In December 1327, Ockham was brought into a theological dispute with the pope on the issue of Franciscans taking a vow of poverty. When Michael Cesena asked him to comment on the dispute (Cesena believed in the vow of poverty but the pope disagreed), Ockham wrote the reply accusing John of heresy. Upon learning on their imminent condemnation, Ockham fled the city under the protection of Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who was also in conflict with the pope over papal authority over the Holy Roman Empire and had been excommunication in 1324. *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, England, Charles II of England of Kingdom of England and Louis XIV of France of France sign the Treaty of Dover. The treaty requires France to assist England in its aim to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church. It also compelled England to withdraw from the Triple Alliance (1668) with the Netherlands and Sweden against France, and also to assist France in its war of conquest against the United Provinces. This led to the Third Anglo-Dutch War from 1672 to 1674. *1736 - Battle of Ackia: Kingdom of Great Britain and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French colonization of the Americas and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi, 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. *1805 - Napoleon I of France (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano Gothic architecture in Milan. *1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg. *1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the Congress of the United States; it is signed into law by President of the United States Andrew Jackson two days later. *1864 - Montana is organized as a Political divisions of the United States. *1865 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America 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 of the United States Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote. *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 of Russia becomes Tsar of Russia. * 1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. *1897 - Bram Stoker's novel ''Dracula'' goes on sale in London. *1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. *1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. *1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. *1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session. *1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allies forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. *1948 - The Congress of the United States 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 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. *1970 - The Soviet Union Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed speed of sound 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. *1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag. *1991 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of Georgia of the Georgia (country) in the post-Soviet Union era. * 1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223. *2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars (planet). *2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes List of Presidents 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'' publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. ==Births== *1264 - Prince Koreyasu, 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan (d. 1326) *1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) *1650 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (d. 1722) *1667 - Abraham de Moivre, mathematician (d. 1754) *1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760) *1764 - Edward Livingston, jurist and statesman (d. 1836) *1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837) *1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896) *1865 - Robert W. Chambers, artist (d. 1933) *1867 - Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953) *1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, painter (d. 1958) *1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927) *1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950) *1887 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971) *1893 - Norma Talmadge, actress (d. 1957) *1895 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965) *1907 - Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964) *1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979) *1908 - Robert Morley, actor (d. 1992) *1911 - Ben Alexander, actor (d. 1969) *1912 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980) *1913 - Peter Cushing, actor (d. 1994) *1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972) *1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002) *1923 - James Arness, actor *1923 - Roy Dotrice, actor *1926 - Miles Davis, U.S. musician and composer (d. 1991) *1928 - Jack Kevorkian, American physician *1938 - William Bolcom, American composer *1938 - Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano *1939 - Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster *1941 - Cliff Drysdale, tennis star *1942 - Levon Helm, musician (The Band) *1946 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d. 1993) *1948 - Stevie Nicks, songwriter and actress *1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, actor *1949 - Hank Williams Jr., American singer *1949 - Ward Cunningham, American inventor of Wiki *1951 - Sally Ride, U.S. astronaut *1953 - Michael Portillo, British politician *1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist *1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef *1957 - Margaret Colin, actress *1958 - Pete Michaels, actor, comedian, and ventriloquist *1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait, U.S. actor and comedian *1964 - Lenny Kravitz, guitarist and singer *1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, actress *1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark *1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, manga-ka *1971 - Matt Stone, co-creator of ''South Park'' *1982 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model ==Deaths== *604 or 605 - Augustine of Canterbury *818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766) *946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921) *1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria *1648 - Vincent Voiture, poet (b. 1597) *1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633) *1824 - Capel Lofft, writer (b. 1751) *1881 - Jakob Bernays, philologist (b. 1824) *1883 - Edward Sabine, astronomer (b. 1788) *1902 - Almon Strowger, developed the Strowger switch (b. 1839) *1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847) *1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadi sect (b. 1839) *1924 - Victor Herbert, operetta composer (b. 1859) *1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukraine independence fighter, known mostly by the pogroms done when he ruled Ukraine (b. 1879) *1933 - Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), U.S. singer (b. 1897) *1943 - Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company (b. 1893) *1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, USA scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880) *1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italy race car driver (b. 1918) *1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889) *1995 - Friz Freleng, animator (b. 1905) *1999 - Waldo Semon, inventor (b. 1898) *2002 - Mamo Wolde, marathon (sport) runner (b. 1932) *2003 - Kathleen Winsor, novelist (b. 1919) *2005 - Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game (b. 1928) *2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906) *2005 - Krzystof Nowak, former Polish football (soccer) player, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (b. 1975) ==Holidays and observances== * Australia - National Sorry Day * Poland - Mother's Day * Georgia (country) - National Day == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26 BBC: On This Day] ---- May 25 - May 27 - April 26 - June 26 – historical anniversaries li:26 mei th:26 พฤษภาคม
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