Historical Events In May - 26

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

1983  On May - 26 nASA launches Exosat  

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

1984  On this day in history frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia  

1984  On May - 26 tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die  

1985  On this day in history danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin  

1985  Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die on this day in history.  

1987  Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe on May - 26.  

1987  On May - 26 great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka  

1987  Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail on May - 26.  

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1987  On this day in history william H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA  

1988  Stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games on May - 26.  

1988  On May - 26 stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games  

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

1989  On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

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

1991  All 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand on May - 26.  

1991  On this day in history presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia  

1991  Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41 on this day in history.  

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

1992  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1993  Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich on May - 26.  

1993  On this day in history carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91  

1994  On this day in history michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)  

1994  George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

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

1996  Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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  Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia on this day in history.  

2012  On May - 26 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  Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34) was born on May - 26.  

1566  On this day in history birth of mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)  

1566  Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) was born on this day in history.  

1591  On this day in history birth of dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer  

1602  Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674) was born on May - 26.  

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

1669  Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1421  On this day in history mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies  

1512  On May - 26 bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies  

1595  On May - 26 philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79  

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