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Today in
History ~ May 26
Events
1328 - William of Ockham forced to flee (with his razor) from Avignon
1521 - Edict of Worms Emperor Charles V issued an edict by which Martin Luther was banned from the empire.
1538 - Geneva throws out Calvin
1637 - In the first major battle of the Pequot War, an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English captains John Mason and John Underhill attacked a Pequot village in Connecticut, completely destroying the village and massacring some 500 Indian women, and children. [H]
1647 - Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1736 - Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
1798 - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 - Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1805 - Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1860 - Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861 - Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 - Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
1864 - -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1864 - Montana Territory Created
1865 - Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of General Edmund Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi forces, New Orleans, Louisiana
1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote [H]
1896 - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned [H]
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables"
1905 - A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1913 - Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1922 - Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 - The French auto race Le Mans was held for the first time with the participation of 35 cars.Andre Lagache and Rene Leonard won the first race with a Chenard & Walcker.
1924 - German government of Marx resigns
1924 - Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
1927 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model Tautomobile
1930 - Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1934 - Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1938 - House on un-American Activities forms
1940 - Two weeks after German forces invaded France, the British initiated Operation Dynamo--the total evacuation of Allied forces from the beach at Dunkirk
1941 - American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1941 - Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 - German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1943 - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1945 - US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1948 - Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 - South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
1955 - Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 - Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
1961 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961 - USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1966 - Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in South-Vietnam
1969 - Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1971 - Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1972 - Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1977 - George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
1977 - Movie "Star Wars" debuts
1978 - 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1984 - Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1987 - Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1987 - Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
1989 - Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1994 - Pop star Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic. The couple divorced less than two years later.
Birthdays Today
1591 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
1689 - Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
1799 - Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
1822 - E de Goncourt, writer
1835 - Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General (Confederate Army) artillery expert at Gettysburgh
1856 - George Templeton Strong, composer/essayist
1867 - Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
1877 - Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
1886 - Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) (singer: Sonny Boy; actor: The Jazz Singer, Rhapsody in Blue, Rose of Washington Square)
1893 - Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
1895 - Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)
1897 - Norma Talmadge (actress: The Forbidden City, The Social Secretary, Dubarry)
1899 - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal
1907 - John Wayne (Marion Morrison) (The Duke: Academy Award-winning actor-over 200 films) shootist
1908 - Robert Morley (Adolph Wilton) (actor: Marie Antoinette, Around the World in 80 Days, The African Queen, War and Remembrance, Of Human Bondage, Istanbul; producer)
1910 - Laurance S Rockefeller, NYC, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1911 - Ben Alexander (Nicholas Alexander) (actor: All Quiet on the Western Front, Dragnet)
1913 - Peter Cushing (actor: Star Wars, Tales from the Crypt, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, The House That Dripped Blood)
1919 - Jay Silverheels (actor: The Lone Ranger, Broken Arrow, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
1920 - Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom) (singer: Fever, Is That All There Is?, It's a Good Day, I Hear Music, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, I'm Just Wild About Harry, I've Got the World on a String, Mr. Wonderful; actress: Mister Music, The Jazz Singer, Pete Kelley's Blues; sang for: Lady and the Tramp)
1923 - James Arness (Aurness) (actor: Gunsmoke, How the West was Won, Hondo, The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory; Minneapolis, MN radio newscaster; brother of Peter Graves)
1927 - Jacques Bergerac, France, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun)
1938 - Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto, soprano (Salome)
1938 - William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
1939 - Brent Musberger (sportscaster: ABC Sports, CBS Sports)
1941 - Cliff Drysdale (tennis)
1942 - Chuck Hartenstein (baseball)
1944 - Sam Posey (auto racer)
1947 - Darrell Evans (baseball: Atlanta Braves)
1948 - Stevie (Stephanie) Nicks (songwriter: Edge of Seventeen, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams, Don't Stop; solo: Stop Draggin' My Heart Around [w/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers], Leather & Lace [w/Don Henley], Stand Back, Talk to Me)
1949 - Dan Pastorini (football)
1949 - Hank Williams Jr. (singer: All My Rowdy Friends Have Gone and Settled Down, Whiskey Bent and Hell-Bound, Family Tradition, Raining In My Heart, I've Got a Right to Cry, I'd Rather Be Gone, I Fought the Law, Are You Ready? [ABC Monday Night Football intro]; movie soundtrack: Your Cheatin' Heart)
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas (actor: Miami Vice, Hair, False Witness, A Fight for Jenny, Homeboy)
1951 - Sally Ride (astronaut: 1st American woman in space: Challenger shuttle [1983])
1952 - Dewey Forry (baseball)
Famous deaths
0735 - Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62
1421 - Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
1595 - Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/Jesuit/saint, dies at 79
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70
1868 - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
1939 - Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74
1943 - Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
1973 - Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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