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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds) 
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1982 After 437 years, the remains of Henry VIII ship the 'Mary Rose' are raised from the seabed.
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial.
1984 Kathryn D. Sullivan of the US is the inaugural female astronaut to walk in spaceoct12
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 VP candidate debate-Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R).
1984 Khanderao M Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies.
1985 Pres Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1986 Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 Norm Cash, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51.
1987 200000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1988 Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55.
1989 Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53.
1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 In this year, Octavio Paz claims Nobel Prize for literature.
1990 Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel.
1990 Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondent, dies of cancer at 73.
1991 Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her.
1992 Theo Wolvencamp, painter (Cobra), dies
1994 Maja Bulgakova, Ukranian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
1996 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80.
2006 New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is killed, along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's Upper East Side
2012 A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
2013 10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
2017 TripAdvisor customer poll names The Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, world's best restaurant
2018 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins.
2018 Russian Soyuz spacecraft makes emergency landing when rocket fails two minutes after liftoff, with American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut aboard.
2019 In this year, Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli scores career-best 254 not out to move past 7000 Test runs on day 2 of the 2nd Test against South Africa in Mumbai; India claims by an innings and 137 runs
2020 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Äoković 6-0, 6-2, 7-5; 20th Grand Slam singles title; record 13th French singles title
2020 NBA Finals: LA Lakers beat Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 to win record equalling 17th title; MVP: LeBron James ; inaugural to win the award with 3 different teams.
2020 In this year, British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton claims Eifel Grand Prix at Germany's Nürburgring to equal Michael Schumacher's record of 91 Formula 1 victories
