Historical Events In May - 26

1983  Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 on May - 26.  

1983  NASA launches Exosat on May - 26.  

1983  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

1984  Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia on May - 26.  

1984  Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die on this day in history.  

1985  On May - 26 danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin  

1985  On this day in history explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die  

1987  On this day in history cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe  

1987  Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka on May - 26.  

1987  On this day in history supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail  

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1987  On May - 26 william H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA  

1988  Stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games on this day in history.  

1988  On this day in history stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games  

1989  On May - 26 danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals  

1989  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

1990  China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China on May - 26.  

1991  All 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand on this day in history.  

1991  On May - 26 presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia  

1991  On May - 26 tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41  

1992  Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour on this day in history.  

1992  On May - 26 with the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Ukraine decide to split the Black Sea fleet  

1992  Danny Biasone, basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 83 on May - 26.  

1993  On this day in history emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time  

1993  On May - 26 olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich  

1993  Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91 on this day in history.  

1994  Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) on this day in history.  

1994  On May - 26 george Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84  

1995  Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88 on this day in history.  

1996  On May - 26 halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76  

1997  On May - 26 manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90  

2006  On this day in history yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia killing 5,782 people  

2007  Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States. [10] on this day in history.  

2011  On May - 26 former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.  

2012  On this day in history a gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink  

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1264  On this day in history birth of prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)  

1478  On May - 26 birth of clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)  

1566  Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603) was born on May - 26.  

1566  Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) was born on May - 26.  

1591  On May - 26 birth of dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer  

1602  On May - 26 birth of philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)  

1667  On this day in history birth of abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)  

1669  On this day in history birth of sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)  

0604  On this day in history augustinus van Canterbury, bishop/apostle of England, dies (or 605)  

0735  Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62 on May - 26.  

0818  Death of Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766) on May - 26.  

1055  On this day in history death of margrave Adalbert of Austria  

1421  On May - 26 mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies  

1512  Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies on May - 26.  

1595  Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1609  On May - 26 death of cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried