Page 9: Historical Events In May - 26

1983  On this day in history challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7   

1983  On this day in history nASA launches Exosat   

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

1984  On May - 26 frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia   

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  Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die on May - 26.   

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

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   

1987  William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA on this day in history.   

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

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

1989  Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals on May - 26.   

1989  On May - 26 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1990  China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China on this day in history.   

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

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  On May - 26 weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour   

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  On May - 26 danny Biasone, basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 83   

1993  Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time on this day in history.   

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

1993  On May - 26 carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91   

1994  Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) on May - 26.   

1994  George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 on May - 26.   

1995  On this day in history isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88   

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

1997  Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90 on May - 26.   

2006  Yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia killing 5,782 people on this day in history.   

2007  Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States. [10] on May - 26.   

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

2012  A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink on this day in history.   

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1264  Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326) was born on May - 26.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1667  Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) was born on May - 26.   

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

0604  Augustinus van Canterbury, bishop/apostle of England, dies (or 605) on May - 26.   

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 May - 26 death of margrave Adalbert of Austria   

1421  Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies on this day in history.   

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

1595  On this day in history philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79   

1609  Death of Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried on this day in history.