May 26

Sunday 26, 2002:

Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.

Sunday 26, 1991:

Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.

Thursday 26, 1977:

George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.

Thursday 26, 1938:

The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

Saturday 26, 1736:

Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.