This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/26/1478 Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34) 
05/26/1566 Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603) 
05/26/1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer 
05/26/1650 John Churchill up Marlborough, English duke/general strategist 
05/26/1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) 
05/26/1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric 
05/26/1773 Hans Georg Nageli, composer 
05/26/1782 Joseph Drechsler, composer 
05/26/1799 Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) 
05/26/1799 August Kopisch, German writer (Die Heinzelm„nnchen von K”ln) 
05/26/1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880 
05/26/1825 Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer 
05/26/1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
05/26/1846 Arthur Coquard, composer 
05/26/1850 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Stupid force) 
05/26/1853 Monroe A Althouse, composer 
05/26/1856 George Templeton Strong, composer 
05/26/1859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life) 
05/26/1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator 
05/26/1866 John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers) 
05/26/1867 Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland 
05/26/1871 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47) 
05/26/1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker) 
05/26/1876 Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion 
05/26/1877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer 
05/26/1877 Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte) 
05/26/1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34) 
05/26/1884 Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show) 
05/26/1886 Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee) 
05/26/1890 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits) 
05/26/1893 Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus) 
05/26/1893 Norma Talmadge, US actress (Sign on Door, Camille) 
05/26/1894 Paul Lukas, Hungarian/US actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx) 
05/26/1897 Norma Talmadge, actress (Du Barry Woman of Passion) 
05/26/1898 Ernst Bacon, composer 
05/26/1898 Gerard Bertouille, composer 
05/26/1899 Pieter Menten, war criminal 
05/26/1903 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn) 
05/26/1905 Hans Holewa, composer 
05/26/1907 Carleton Young, actor (Reefer Madness, Pride of the Bowery) 
05/26/1907 John Wayne, 'Duke', [Marion Michael Morrison], actor (True Grit) 
05/26/1908 Malando, [Arie Maasland], composer/orchestra leader (Ol‚ Guapa) 
05/26/1908 Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen) 
05/26/1909 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United) 
05/26/1909 Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger) 
05/26/1910 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico 
05/26/1910 Laurance S Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank) 
05/26/1911 Ben Alexander, actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles Kicks Off) 
05/26/1912 J nos K d r, premier Hungary (1956-58) 
05/26/1913 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician 
05/26/1913 Peter Cushing, England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles, Star Wars) 
05/26/1914 Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes) 
05/26/1920 Peggy Lee, [Norma Egstrom], Jamestown ND, singer (Thats All There Is

05/26/1923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick) 
05/26/1923 James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing) 
05/26/1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)

05/26/1923 Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (Wizard) 
05/26/1924 Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87) 
05/26/1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark) 
05/26/1925 Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)

05/26/1926 Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer 
05/26/1926 Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz artist (cool jazz) 
05/26/1927 Jacques Bergerac, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) 
05/26/1929 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea) 
05/26/1934 Abdulah M 'Dulah' Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader 
05/26/1937 Yehuda Yannay, composer 
05/26/1938 Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto Canada, soprano 
05/26/1938 William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles) 
05/26/1939 Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV) 
05/26/1941 Imants Kalnins, composer 
05/26/1942 Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band) 
05/26/1942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good) 
05/26/1943 Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 
05/26/1944 Verden 'Phally' Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople) 
05/26/1945 Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who) 
05/26/1946 Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna) 
05/26/1947 Sherry Bain, Calif, actress (Pipe Dreams) 
05/26/1949 Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders) 
05/26/1949 Dayle Haddon, Montr‚al Qu‚bec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes) 
05/26/1949 Hank Williams Jr, Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk) 
05/26/1949 Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough) 
05/26/1949 Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice) 
05/26/1951 Muhammed Ahmad Fares, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3) 
05/26/1951 Sally Kristen Ride, LA Calif, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G

05/26/1955 Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979) 
05/26/1956 Joe Penny, actor (Jake & Fatman) 
05/26/1959 Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life) 
05/26/1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy) 
05/26/1962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like) 
05/26/1962 Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence

05/26/1963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)

05/26/1963 Eddie Martin Jr, jockey 
05/26/1964 Lenny Kravitz, singer (911 is a Joke) 
05/26/1966 Helena Bonham Carter, UK, actress (Getting it Right, Lady Jane) 
05/26/1966 Zola Budd, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988) 
05/26/1968 Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark 
05/26/1976 Benji Gregory, Encino Calif, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf) 
05/26/1990 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/26/ 735 Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 6

05/26/1421 Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies 
05/26/1512 Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies 
05/26/1609 Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried 
05/26/1703 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70 
05/26/1753 Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies 
05/26/1818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal/War Minister, dies

05/26/1831 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies 
05/26/1832 Francois-Louis Perne, composer, dies at 59 
05/26/1871 Aime Maillart, composer, dies at 54 
05/26/1873 August Conradi, composer, dies at 52 
05/26/1876 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian, dies at 77 
05/26/1880 John Curwen, composer, dies at 63 
05/26/1883 Abd el-Frame, Algerian sultan, dies at about 74 
05/26/1891 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 68 
05/26/1905 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies 
05/26/1908 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69

05/26/1912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61 
05/26/1924 Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67 
05/26/1924 Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65 
05/26/1933 Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35 
05/26/1939 Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74 
05/26/1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies 
05/26/1946 Friedrich AH von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies 
05/26/1951 Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71 
05/26/1956 Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 5

05/26/1959 Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78 
05/26/1959 Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57 
05/26/1963 Sharon Lynn, actress (Big Executive, Wild Company), dies at 53 
05/26/1966 Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47 
05/26/1966 Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86 
05/26/1967 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies 
05/26/1967 George E Stone, actor (5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64 
05/26/1968 William E 'Little Willie' John, US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30) 
05/26/1969 Kathryn Minner, entertainer, dies 
05/26/1971 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70 
05/26/1973 Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81 
05/26/1974 Kitty Gordon, entertainer, dies at 96 
05/26/1976 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86 
05/26/1977 Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63 
05/26/1977 William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35 
05/26/1979 George Brent, actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St), dies at 75 
05/26/1991 Tom Eyen, US musical/TV writer (Dreamgirls, Mary Hartman), dies 
05/26/1993 Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78 
05/26/1993 Marvin Young, actor, dies 
05/26/1994 George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 
05/26/1994 Sonny Sharrock, US free-jazz guitarist, dies at 53 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/26/ 961 German King Otto II crowned 
05/26/1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 
05/26/1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven Ct kills 500 indians 
05/26/1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony 
05/26/1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French 
05/26/1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia 
05/26/1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain 
05/26/1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress 
05/26/1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy 
05/26/1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with Sou

05/26/1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL 
05/26/1864 Territory of Montana organized 
05/26/1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith 
05/26/1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote 
05/26/1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration 
05/26/1887 Legal betting at race tracks begins 
05/26/1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY 
05/26/1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted 
05/26/1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned 
05/26/1898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies 
05/26/1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa 
05/26/1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of 3 Gables' (BG) 
05/26/1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia 
05/26/1907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game

05/26/1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC) 
05/26/1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England 
05/26/1916 F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair 
05/26/1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field 
05/26/1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russi

05/26/1922 Lenin suffers a stroke 
05/26/1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run 
05/26/1923 Socialistic Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg 
05/26/1924 German govt of Marx resigns 
05/26/1924 Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration 
05/26/1926 Lebanon adopts constitution 
05/26/1927 15 millionth T-Ford produced 
05/26/1928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4 
05/26/1930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Carawa

05/26/1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo 
05/26/1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia 
05/26/1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards 
05/26/1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago 
05/26/1937 Dutch Rail NV at law established 
05/26/1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens 
05/26/1938 House on un-American Activities begins work 
05/26/1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila 
05/26/1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 
05/26/1941 German occupiers begin youth labor 
05/26/1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star 
05/26/1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 
05/26/1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia

05/26/1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam 
05/26/1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa 
05/26/1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo 
05/26/1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia 
05/26/1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb 
05/26/1948 South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy 
05/26/1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die 
05/26/1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade 
05/26/1956 Aircraft carrier 'Bennington' burns off RI, killing 103 
05/26/1956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, 
05/26/1956 broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 
05/26/1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed 
05/26/1958 Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark 
05/26/1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th 
05/26/1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta 
05/26/1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 
05/26/1963 Organization of African Unity established 
05/26/1963 Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a double header 
05/26/1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes 
05/26/1965 Revised intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect 
05/26/1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hu‚ South-Vietnam 
05/26/1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK 
05/26/1969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth 
05/26/1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montrael)

05/26/1972 Nixon & Brezjnev signs SALT accord 
05/26/1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution 
05/26/1973 Beatles' 'Beatles 1967-1970,' album goes #1 
05/26/1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/2

05/26/1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled 
05/26/1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes 
05/26/1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov 
05/26/1977 'Beatlemania' opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway 
05/26/1977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center 
05/26/1977 Movie 'Star Wars' debuts 
05/26/1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City 
05/26/1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8' 
05/26/1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters 
05/26/1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6 
05/26/1981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth 
05/26/1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 
05/26/1983 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws 
05/26/1983 NASA launches Exosat 
05/26/1984 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3317 Paris 
05/26/1984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla 
05/26/1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia 
05/26/1984 Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13' of rain, 14 die 
05/26/1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin 
05/26/1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka 
05/26/1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio 
05/26/1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals 
05/26/1990 Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 
05/26/1991 Austria passenger flight explodes in Bangkok, 223 die 
  
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