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Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze steps down. 
Dec 21 Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; b. 1910).
Dec 22 Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76.
Dec 22 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait.
Dec 22 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
Dec 22 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's inaugural popularly elected president
Dec 23 Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies
Dec 23 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Dec 24 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's main target.
Dec 25 "Godfather III" premiers
Dec 25 Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
Dec 26 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
Dec 26 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33.
Dec 27 Barbara McDougall announces a five-year $332 million agreement to give Quebec control of cultural integration of immigrants to the province.
Dec 27 San Francisco became the inaugural city to adopt regulations regarding video display terminals in the workplace.
Dec 28 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65.
Dec 31 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds.
Dec 31 The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
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