On this day in History - May 26

• 0604 - Augustine of Canterbury dies.
• 0818 - Ali ar-Rida dies (b. 0766). Shia Imam.
• 0946 - King Edmund I of England dies (b. 0921).
• 1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria dies.
• 1182 - Portugal: D.Afonso Henriques concede o primeiro foral à vila de Coruche.
• 1264 - Prince Koreyasu was born (d. 1326). 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan.
• 1328 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
• 1421 - Mehmed I dies (b. 1389). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1478 - Pope Clement VII was born (d. 1534).
• 1512 - Bayezid II dies. Ottoman Sultan
• 1521 - Martin Luther was declared a heretic by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.
• 1536 - Francesco Berni dies. Italian poet.
• 1538 - Geneva expels John Calvin.
• 1566 - Mehmed III was born (d. 1603). Ottoman Emperor.
• 1595 - Philip Neri dies (b. 1515). Italian churchman / Morre Filipe Néri, padre italiano, fundador da Congregação do Oratório.
• 1602 - Philippe de Champaigne was born (d. 1674). French painter.
• 1637 - Pequot War: an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, killing approximately 500 inhabitants.
• 1647 - Alse Young dies. American witch.
• 1648 - Vincent Voiture dies (b. 1597). French poet.
• 1650 - John Churchill was born (d. 1722). British generak, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
• 1653 - Robert Filmer dies (b. 1588). English writer.
• 1667 - Abraham de Moivre was born (d. 1754). French mathematician.
• 1669 - Sébastien Vaillant was born (d. 1722). French botanist.
• 1670 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
• 1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria dies (b. 1636).
• 1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1651).
• 1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dies (b. 1762). English writer.
  1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf was born (d. 1760). German religious and social reformer.
• 1703 - Samuel Pepys dies (b. 1633). English civil servant famous for his diary.
• 1736 - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
• 1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten dies (b. 1714). German philosopher
• 1764 - Edward Livingston was born (d. 1836). Jurist and statesman.
• 1771 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense was born ( † 07 Mar 1833). Gerrman writer.
• 1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin was born (d. 1837). Russian author.
• 1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo dies (b. 1714). Scottish judge.
• 1805 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy.
• 1822 - Edmond de Goncourt was born (d. 1896). French writer.
• 1824 - Capel Lofft dies (b. 1751). English writer.
• 1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
• 1831 - Ciro Menotti dies (b. 1798). Italian patriot.
• 1834 - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates / Concessão de Évora-Monte. Conhecida por Convenção de Évora-Monte este acordo tenta, com base na deposição das armas por parte dos miguelistas, uma pacificação geral da sociedade portuguesa. A D. Miguel era concedida uma pensão, não podendo regressar a Portugal.
• 1840 - Sidney Smith dies (b. 1764). British admiral.
• 1862 - Juana Azurduy dies (b. 12 Jul 1780). Argentine revolutionary.
• 1863 - Robert Fitzsimmons was born (d. 1917). Boxing champion.
• 1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• 1865 - Robert W. Chambers was born (d. 1933). American artist.
• 1867 - Mary of Teck was born (d. 1953). Queen Consort of King George V of the United Kingdom.
• 1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
• 1873 - Olaf Gulbransson was born (d. 1958). Norwegian painter.
• 1874 - Henri Farman was born. French aviator and aircraft builder.
• 1874 - Joaquim António de Aguiar dies. Portuguese politician.
• 1878 - Isadora Duncan was born (d. 1927). American dancer.
• 1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• 1881 - Jakob Bernays dies (b. 1824). German philologist.
• 1883 - Edward Sabine dies (b. 1788). Irish astronomer.
• 1883 - Abd al-Qadir dies (b. 1808). Algerian political and military leader.
• 1886 - Al Jolson was born (d. 1950). American singer.
• 1887 - É assinado o tratado de amizade e comércio com a China, que atribui a Portugal o direito de ocupação e governo de Macau.
• 1887 - Paul Lukas was born (d. 1971). Actor.
• 1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public
• 1892 - Francisco Maria de Sousa Brandão dies. Portuguese general and politician.
• 1893 - Norma Talmadge was born (d. 1957). American actress.
• 1894 - Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
• 1895 - Dorothea Lange was born (d. 1965). American photographer.
• 1895 - Paul Lukas was born (d. 1971). Hungarian actor.
• 1895 - Gervásio Lobato dies. Portuguese author ("Lisboa em Camisa").
• 1896 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• 1896 - Michael Simpson murders six people in Campbell, California.
• 1897 - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.
• 1899 - Antonio Barrette was born (d. 1968). Quebec politician.
• 1902 - Almon Strowger dies (b. 1839). Developed the Strowger switch.
• 1904 - George Formby was born (d. 1961). English singer and comedian.
• 1904 - Vlado Perlemuter was born (d. 2002). Polish pianist.
• 1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette dies (b. 1857). French neurologist.
• 1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
• 1907 - Jean Bernard was born (d. 2006). French physician.
• 1907 - Rachel Carson was born (d. 1964). American environmental write.
• 1907 - John Wayne was born (d. 1979). American actor.
• 1907 - Ida McKinley dies (b. 1847). First Lady of the United States.
• 1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman 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.
• 1908 - Robert Morley was born (d. 1992). English actor.
• 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad dies (b. 1835). Founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.
• 1909 - Adolfo López Mateos was born (d. 1969). President of Mexico.
• 1909 - Sir Matt Busby was born (d. 1994). Scottish footballer and manager.
• 1909 - Nikolay Guryanov was born (d. 2002). Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest.
• 1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
• 1911 - Ben Alexander was born (d. 1969). American actor.
• 1911 - A Câmara de Deputados do México elege como presidente interino Francisco León de la Barra.
• 1912 - Jay Silverheels was born (d. 1980). American actor.
• 1913 - Actors' Equity Association was organized in New York.
• 1913 - Peter Cushing was born (d. 1994). English actor.
• 1914 - Frankie Manning was born. American Lindy Hop dancer.
• 1915 - Sam Edwards was born (d. 2004). American actor.
• 1915 - Antonia Forest was born (d. 2003). British children's author.
• 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg was born (d. 1972). Dutch journalist.
• 1917 - A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world´s longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
• 1917 - Eva Szorenyi was born. Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
• 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
• 1918 - Anton Christoforidis was born (d. 1985). Greek boxer.
• 1920 - Peggy Lee was born (d. 2002). American singer.
• 1920 - Rúben A. was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1922 - Ernest Solvay dies. Belgium chemist.
• 1923 - James Arness was born. American actor.
• 1923 - Roy Dotrice was born. British actor.
• 1924 - Victor Herbert dies (b. 1859). Irish Operetta composer.
• 1926 - Lebanon adopts constitution.
• 1926 - Maria de Lourdes Martins was born. Portuguese composer and pianist.
• 1926 - Simon Petlyura dies (b. 1879). Ukrainian independence fighter, known mostly by the pogroms done when he ruled Ukraine.
• 1926 - Miles Davis was born (d. 1991). American musician.
• 1928 - Jack Kevorkian was born. American physician.
• 1930 - Sivuca was born on Itabaiana, Paraíba (d. 14 Dec 2006). Brazilian musician.
• 1930 - Tony Tornado (António Vianna Gomes) was born in Mirante do Paranapanema, São Paulo. Brazilian singer and actor.
• 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers dies (b. 1897). American singer.
• 1933 - Horatio Bottomley dies (b. 1860). British financier and politician.
• 1934 - Portugal - Tem início o 1.º Congresso da União Nacional (decorreu até 28 de Maio), que se realiza na Sociedade de Geografia. No seu decurso, cimenta-se a ideologia conservadora e autoritária do partido único do Estado Novo que orientará, durante quatro décadas, o destino de Portugal.
• 1936 - In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
• 1937 - A Exposição Universal é inaugurada em Paris.
• 1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• 1938 - William Bolcom was born. American composer
• 1938 - Teresa Stratas was born. Canadian soprano
• 1938 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was born. Russian playwright and novelist
• 1939 - Merab Kostava was born. Georgian anti-Soviet leader
• 1939 - Brent Musburger was born. American sports broadcaster.
• 1939 - Charles Horace Mayo dies (b. 1865). American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic).
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.
• 1940 - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Quebec politician
• 1940 - Levon Helm was born. American musician (The Band)
• 1941 - Cliff Drysdale was born. South African tennis player
• 1941 - John Kaufman was born. Sculptor
• 1941 - Reg Bundy was born (d. 2003). British performer.
• 1942 - Levon Helm was born. Musician (The Band) .
• 1943 - Erica Terpstra was born. President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
• 1943 - Edsel Ford dies (b. 1893). President of the Ford Motor Company .
• 1944 - Sam Posey was born. American race car driver
• 1945 - Garry Peterson was born. Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
• 1946 - Mick Ronson was born (d. 1993). English guitarist.
• 1946 - Na Checoslováquia, os comunistas ganham as eleições para a Assembléia Constituinte.
• 1948 - Stevie Nicks was born. Amwerican songwriter and actress.
• 1948 - The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
• 1948 - Theodore Morell dies (b. 1886). Hitler's personal physician.
• 1949 - Philip Michael Thomas was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Hank Williams Jr. was born. American singer.
• 1949 - Ward Cunningham was born. American inventor of Wiki.
• 1949 - Pam Grier was born. American actress
• 1951 - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn was born. Irish politician
• 1951 - Sally Ride was born. American astronaut
• 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth dies (b. 1880). American scientist and polar explorer.
• 1952 - David Meece was born. Christian musician
• 1953 - Michael Portillo was born. British politician.
• 1954 - Alan Hollinghurst was born. British novelist
• 1954 - Danny Rolling was born (d. 2006). American murderer.
• 1954 - Lionel Conacher dies (b. 1900). Canadian athlete.
• 1955 - Masaharu Morimoto was born. Japanese chef
• 1955 - Wesley Walker was born. American football player
• 1955 - Alberto Ascari dies (b. 1918). Italian race car driver.
• 1955 - Morimoto Masaharu was born. Japanese chef
• 1955 - Alberto Ascari dies (b. 1918). Italian race car driver.
• 1956 - Frédéric Dutoit was born. French politician.
• 1957 - Margaret Colin was born. American actress.
• 1957 - Kristina Olsen was born. American musician.
• 1957 - Roberto Ravaglia was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1957 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle was born. Lesotho academic and politician.
• 1957 - François Legault was born. Quebec politician.
• 1958 - Pete Michaels was born. Actor, comedian, and ventriloquist.
• 1959 - Steve Hanley was born. English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
• 1960 - UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow
• 1960 - Rob Murphy was born. American baseball player.
• 1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1963 - The Organisation of African Unity is formed.
• 1963 - 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth win.
• 1964 - Caitlín R. Kiernan was born. Irish-American writer.
• 1964 - Lenny Kravitz was born. American guitarist and singer.
• 1965 - Os generais Alfredo Ovando e René Barrientos assumem a presidência da Bolívia.
• 1965 - Hazel Irvine was born. British television presenter.
• 1966 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
• 1966 - Helena Bonham Carter was born. English actress.
• 1966 - Zola Budd was born. South African athlete.
• 1967 - Phil Doyle was born. Australian writer.
• 1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark was born.
• 1968 - Pat Kenney was born. American wrestler.
• 1968 - Little Willie John dies (b. 1937). American singer.
• 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.
• 1969 - O Pacto Andino, programa de integração econômica para criar em onze anos um mercado comum, é firmado em Caracas entre os representantes da Bolívia, Colômbia, Chile, Equador e Peru.
• 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 - Paul Hawkins dies (b. 1937). Australian racing driver.
• 1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• 1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki was born. Japanese cartoonist, Manga-ka
• 1971 - Matt Stone was born. American television produver, Co-creator of South Park
• 1972 - The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
• 1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
• 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1972 - Patsy Palmer was born. British actress.
• 1973 - Bahrain adopts it's constitution.
• 1973 - The Beatles '1967-1970' album went to No.1 on the US chart.
• 1974 - The first mimimum wage is defined in Portugal / O I Governo provisório fixa o primeiro Salário Mínimo Nacional em 3.300 escudos mensais, um mês após o 25 de Abril, entrando em vigor a 27 de Maio.
• 1974 - Lars Frölander was born. Swedish swimmer.
• 1974 - Silvio Moser dies (b. 24 Apr 1941). Swiss racing driver.
• 1975 - Travis Lee was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 - Justin Pierre was born. American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
• 1976 - Martin Heidegger dies (b. 1889). German philosopher.
• 1977 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
• 1977 - Mark Hunter was born. American musician (Chimaira).
• 1977 - Misaki Ito was born. Japanese actress.
• 1977 - Luca Toni was born. Italian soccer player.
• 1977 - William Powell dies (b. 1942). American singer (The O'Jays).
• 1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
• 1978 - Cybele dies (b. 1887). Greek actress
• 1979 - Ashley Massaro was born. American wrestler.
• 1979 - Elisabeth Harnois was born. American actress.
• 1979 - George Brent dies (b. 1899). British actor.
• 1981 - 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.
• 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).
• 1981 - Irini Merkouri was born. Greek singer.
• 1982 - Yoko Matsugane was born. Japanese model.
• 1982 - Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Champions Cup in Rotterdam
• 1983 - Strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggers a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many missing people and thousands of buildings destroyed.
• 1985 - O Iraque bombardeia seis cidades iranianas.
• 1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
• 1987 - Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe.
• 1988 - O escritor português Vergílio Ferreira vence o Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela da APE.
• 1989 - É admitida a primeira mulher nos quadros de oficiais do exército português.
• 1990 - For the first time ever the Top five positions on the US singles chart were held by female artists; Madonna was at No.1 with 'Vogue', Heart were at No.2, Sinead O'Connor No.3, Wilson Phillips at No.4 and Janet Jackson was at No.5
• 1991 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
• 1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
• 1991 - Julianna Rose Mauriello was born. American actress
• 1992 - Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
• 1993 - Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Champions Cup in Munich
• 1994 - Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
• 1994 - A cidade mexicana de Zacatecas é declarada Património Cultural da Humanidade.
• 1995 - Friz Freleng dies (b. 1889). American animator, Pink Panther's creator / Morre o cineasta norte-americano Friz Freeleng, 89 anos, criador da Pantera Cor-de-rosa.
• 1996 - George Michael went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Older.'
• 1996 - Attilio Veronese dies. Italian painter.
• 1997 - France's deeply unpopular prime minister, Alain Juppe, announced he would resign, a day after the country's governing center-right coalition suffered major losses in first-round parliamentary elections.
• 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
• 1998 - Veterans reject Japanese 'sorrow': Emperor Akihito of Japan speaks of his "pain" over the suffering inflicted by his country during World War II, but war veterans feel he does not go far enough.
• 1999 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League to complete an unprecedented treble.
• 1999 - Paul Sacher dies (b. 1906). Swiss conductor.
• 1999 - Waldo Semon dies (b. 1898). American inventor.
• 2000 - Hezbollah celebrates Israeli retreat : The Hezbollah leader is greeted by thousands of supporters during a victory rally to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon.
• 2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi dies. Defence Minister of Zimbabwe is killed in a car crash.
• 2001 - Vittorio Brambilla dies (b. 1937). Italian racing driver.
• 2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
• 2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
• 2002 - Fourteen people were killed when barges being pushed by a towboat crashed into the piers of the Interstate 40 bridge in Oklahoma, causing part of the structure to fall into the Arkansas River.
• 2002 - The Pianist by Toman Polanski wins La Palme D'Ór in Cannes / O realizador Roman Polanski recebe a Palma de Ouro do Festival de Cannes pelo filme "O Pianista".
• 2002 - The first episode of 'At Home With The Osbournes' was shown on MTV in the UK.
• 2002 - Eminem scored his third UK No.1 single with 'Without Me.'
• 2002 - Ronan Keating scored his second UK No.1 album with ‘Destination.’
• 2002 - Mamo Wolde dies (b. 1932). Ethiopian marathon runner.
• 2003 - Kathleen Winsor dies (b. 1919). American writer.
• 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.
• 2003 - Carlos Eduardo Dolabella dies (b. 11 Jun 1937). Brazilian actor.
• 2004 - The U.S. Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 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 - FC Porto won their second European Champions Clubs' Cup beating Monaco 3-0 / Porto vence o Mónaco por 3-0 e conquista a Liga dos Campeões Europeus em Futebol, a 2ª. da sua história, depois de na época anterior já ter vencido a Taça Uefa.
• 2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh dies (b. 1931). Russian astronomer.
• 2004 - Dullah Omar dies (b. 1934). South African lawyer and politician.
• 2005 - Eddie Albert dies (b. 1906). American actor.
• 2005 - Chico Carrasquel dies (b. 1928). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
• 2006 - Europe's Biggest Station to Open in Berlin in Time for World Cup. Chancellor Angela Merkel is opening Europe's largest train station in Berlin.
• 2006 - Lisbon : Rock in Rio (II Edition) in Lisbon begins.
• 2006 - Portuguese Telma Monteiro becomes European Champion in Judo (less than 52 Kg) in Tampere, Finland.
• 2006 - The 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
• 2006 - José Marinho dies at 42. Porrtuguese pianist, composer and conductor. - A judoca portuguesa Telma Monteiro, líder da hierarquia mundial da categoria até 52 kg, sagra-se campeã da Europa, em Tampere, Finlândia.
• 2006 - Édouard Michelin dies (b. 1963). CEO of Michelin
• 2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan dies (b. 1919). Irish athlete and physician.
• Poland - Mother's Day
• Georgia - National Day
• Australia - National Sorry Day
• Brasil - Dia de Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio.
• Cherry Dessert Day
• International Jazz Day: Held annually on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, this celebrates the history and music of jazz worldwide