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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1852 Frederick Corder, composer 
1855 Arthur Hervey, composer.
1861 Louisiana is recorded as becoming 6th state to secede
1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1863 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms.
1863 War Department authorizes Massachusetts Governor to recruit black troops.
1870 Virginia rejoins the Union, following the end of the Civil War.
1870 Virginia rejoins US
1870 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1871 British Rugby Union forms
1871 US income tax repealed
1871 Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones)
1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green.
1877 Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
1878 A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of S African cricket).
1879 Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1880 Douglas MacArthur, American wartime general is born.
1880 Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, general (WW II), he did return!
1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl.
1882 France government of Gambetta falls.
1882 France govt of Gambetta falls
1884 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
1884 Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians)
1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
1885 Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51.
1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1886 Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1887 Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians.
1887 Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist.
1891 Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC.
1891 Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw).
1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies
1893 Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday.
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