Historical Events In May - 26

1983  On May - 26 challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7   

1983  NASA launches Exosat on this day in history.   

1983  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

1984  Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia on May - 26.   

1984  Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die on May - 26.   

1985  Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin on this day in history.   

1985  Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die on this day in history.   

1987  On May - 26 cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe   

1987  Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka on this day in history.   

1987  Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail on this day in history.   

1987  William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA on this day in history.   

1988  On May - 26 stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games   

1988  On May - 26 stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games   

1989  On May - 26 danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals   

1989  On May - 26 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1990  China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China on this day in history.   

1991  All 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand on this day in history.   

1991  On May - 26 presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia   

1991  On May - 26 tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41   

1992  Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour on this day in history.   

1992  With the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Ukraine decide to split the Black Sea fleet on May - 26.   

1992  On this day in history danny Biasone, basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 83   

1993  On May - 26 emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time   

1993  Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich on this day in history.   

1993  Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91 on May - 26.   

1994  Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) on this day in history.   

1994  George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88   

1996  Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90   

2006  Yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia killing 5,782 people on this day in history.   

2007  On May - 26 russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States. [10]   

2011  Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia on May - 26.   

2012  A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink on this day in history.   

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1264  On this day in history birth of prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)   

1478  On May - 26 birth of clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)   

1566  On May - 26 birth of mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)   

1566  Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) was born on May - 26.   

1591  On this day in history birth of dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer   

1602  On this day in history birth of philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)   

1667  Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) was born on this day in history.   

1669  Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722) was born on May - 26.   

0604  On May - 26 augustinus van Canterbury, bishop/apostle of England, dies (or 605)   

0735  On May - 26 beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62   

0818  On this day in history death of ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)   

1055  Death of Margrave Adalbert of Austria on this day in history.   

1421  Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies on this day in history.   

1512  On May - 26 bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies   

1595  On May - 26 philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79   

1609  Death of Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried on this day in history.