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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1968 John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 
1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco.
1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76.
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City.
1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze
1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse.
1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died.
1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church.
1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman.
1976 A Naval Aviator tradition came to an end when brown shoes were stricken from the officers' and chiefs' uniforms. The tradition initially distinguished the Brown Shoe Navy of the aviators from the black shoes of the surface officers.
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52".
1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss.
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC).
1979 Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury.
1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72.
1980 Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies.
1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy.
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification.
1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies.
1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79.
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut.
1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies.
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump
1987 Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason.
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK.
1989 Congressman Lukins are discovered guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl.
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam.
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill jul051054 A minor star in the constellation Taurus explodes July 5 in a supernova that is visible by daylight for 23 days and remains visible at night for another 633 days, an event recorded by pictographs in China and in the Western Hemisphere
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