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Historical Events In May - 26

Thursday, 08 June 2023

1983  Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1983  NASA launches Exosat on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1983  On May - 26 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  On May - 26 danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  On May - 26 explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  On May - 26 supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  On May - 26 william H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  On May - 26 stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1989  On this day in history danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1989  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  All 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  On this day in history presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41 on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  On this day in history weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  With the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Ukraine decide to split the Black Sea fleet on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  Danny Biasone, basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 83 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  On May - 26 emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91 on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  On May - 26 michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1995  On this day in history isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1996  On this day in history halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1997  Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2006  On this day in history yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia killing 5,782 people  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2007  Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States. [10] on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2012  A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In May - 26

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1264  On this day in history birth of prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1478  On May - 26 birth of clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1566  Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1566  On May - 26 birth of mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1591  On May - 26 birth of dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1602  On May - 26 birth of philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1667  On May - 26 birth of abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1669  On this day in history birth of sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 26

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0604  Augustinus van Canterbury, bishop/apostle of England, dies (or 605) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0735  Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0818  Death of Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766) on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1055  Death of Margrave Adalbert of Austria on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1421  Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1512  Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1595  Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  Death of Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried on May - 26.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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