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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56 
1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion.
1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran.
1984 Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82.
1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.
1986 K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies.
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213.
1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
1989 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63.
1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty premiers.
1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts.
1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC).
1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
1993 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76
1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76.
1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
2007 Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right
2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374500.
2014 Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia.
2017 Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire
2017 New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664000.
2017 Rebel Wilson win defamation case against Bauer Media at The Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne
2018 World Cup: Portugal 3. Spain 3 - Cristiano Renaldo scores hat-trick - 4th player to score in 4 different WC's - 1st to score in 8 consecutive major tournaments.
2018 Physicist Stephen Hawking 's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin
2018 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company's blood tests.
2018 Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh burns down, four years after a previous fire
2019 Baseball jersey belonging to Babe Ruth is recorded as becoming most expensive sports memorabilia when it sells for $5.64 million at an auction in New York
2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam
2020 In this year, Philippines journalist and 'Time Person of the Year' Maria Ressa are discovered guilty of cyber libel in Manila amid claims charges politically motivated
2020 At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley, the largest escalation along the Sino-Indian border in five decades.
2020 Turkish and Iranian forces commence air and artillery strikes against Kurdistan Workers' Party forces in Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey launches a land operation in the region on June 17.
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