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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics). 
1995 Official CN opening ceremony for a new tunnel between Sarnia, Ont and Port Huron, MI. The tunnel can handle full height double stack container cars
1995 Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86
1996 In this year, Renette Cruz, Vancouver British Columbia, claims Miss Canadian Universe.
1996 Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86
1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV.
1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
2005 The United Kingdom votes in the 205 general election. The Labour Party is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority
2005 Two homemade bombs explode outside the British consulate in New York, USA.2006 NASA astronomers announce the discovery of a storm system in the Jovian atmosphere, dubbed the Red Spot Junior.
2006 Fiat chairman Sergio marionne announces that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008, after a 13-year hiatus
2006 NASA astronomers announce the discovery of a storm system in the Jovian atmosphere, dubbed the Red Spot Junior
2007 Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon
2012 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal.
2013 10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria
2014 China announces it will upgrade Ethiopia's infrastructure in an effort to improve a China-Africa strategic partnership
2014 The World Health Organization identifies the spread of poliomyelitis in at least 10 countries as a major worldwide health emergency.
2016 Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in a night attack on Gamboru Ngala
2018 In this year, 144th Kentucky Derby: 52 year old Mike Smith claims his second Derby aboard Justify
2018 Former Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers a brain haemorrhage and is hospitalised; recovers.
2018 In this year, Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim.
2018 Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, inaugural death from a vaping product
2018 NASA's unmanned spaceprobe InSight is launched. It is expected to land on Mars in November and use a drill to conduct geological science
2019 Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash-lands and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The U.K. death toll from COVID-19 is recorded as becoming the highest in Europe at 32313 after exceeding the death toll of 29029 in Italy.
2020 The Philippines' National Telecommunications Commission issues a cease and desist order to the broadcasting operations of ABS-CBN, the country's largest media network, as Congress fails to renew its franchise granted on March 30, 1995.
2021 Donald Trump 's ban from Facebook upheld by the company's Oversight Board for a further six months.
2021 SpaceX successfully flies, lands, and recovers a Starship prototype for the inaugural time, after four unsuccessful previous attempts.[90].
2023 The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.
2024 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping visits Europe for the inaugural time in five years, arriving in France [1]
2024 Panamanian general election: José Raúl Mulino is elected president.
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