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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1965 Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68. 
1966 Francis Chichester begins the inaugural solo sail around the world.
1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois.
1966 Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world.
1967 The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is are discovered dead in his London flat from an overdose of sleeping pills.
1967 Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1968 Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79.
1971 Humorist and author Bennet Cerf dies
1971 Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73.
1973 Largest hailstone ever are discovered in Canada falls at Cedoux; weight 290 grams, diameter 114 mm (almost three times bigger than a golf ball).
1974 Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, dies in Addis Ababa at age 83
1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18020 miles around the world
1975 Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83.
1976 British MP John Stonehouse steps down following his conviction for theft and fraud
1977 George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51.
1979 An IRA bomb takes the life of British Lord Louis Mountbatten in a boat off the Irish coast.
1979 Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82.
1980 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68.
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe are discovered aboard the Andrea Doria.
1981 Salvage divers recover a million dollars in cash and jewels from the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, sunk in 1965.
1981 Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62.
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth.
1984 Diane Sawyer joins the on-air reporting cast of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes
1984 President Reagan announces the Teacher in Space project.
1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1986 US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings.
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka
1990 Fifty-two Americans, previously held hostage by Iraq, reach freedom in Turkey.
1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude.
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