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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1976 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that Waltzing Matilda will be his country's national anthem at the upcoming Montreal Summer Olympic Games. 
1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1979 The inaugural woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) is elected
1980 Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, dies
1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
1982 British Destroyer HMS Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket catches fire and later flounders, many sailors die
1983 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China.
1983 Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72.
1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1984 Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer.
1987 Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56.
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus.
1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched.
1989 White house aide Oliver North is convicted of charges from the Iran-Contra affair The three convictions are later overturned on appeal
1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger.
1990 Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
1990 Don Appell, dies.
1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent.
1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed.
1991 Morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), steps down due to Parkinson disease.
1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89.
1994 In this year, Arsenal claims 34th Europe Cup II
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1994 Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59.
1995 Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
1996 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87.
1997 Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
2005 In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
2006 A new coalition government takes office in Israel; its four political parties hold 67 of the 120 seats in the Knesset
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