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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 
1984 Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
1987 inaugural World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft.
1988 Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure.
1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) results in the deaths of 67
1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64.
1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84.
1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies.
1993 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77.
1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83.
1995 Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment is declared the oldest living person, with a proven age of 120 years and 238 days.
1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66.
1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93
1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
1998 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die
1999 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)
2000 Pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her inaugural visit to the Vatican in 20 years.
2005 Jens Stoltenberg is recorded as becoming the Prime Minister of Norway for the second time
2006 The United States population reaches 300 million based on a United States Census Bureau projection.
2007 Whitehaven, England is recorded as becoming the inaugural place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover.
2012 The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri.
2013 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.
2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi "liberated" from militants
2017 In this year, American short-story writer George Saunders claims the Man Booker Prize for his inaugural novel "Lincoln in the Bardo".
2017 Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
2018 India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women
2018 Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years.
2018 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, the second country after Uruguay.
2018 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
2018 The revived "The Connors" debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman , without fired former star Roseanne Barr
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