May 26

Wednesday 26, 2004:

The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Monday 26, 2003:

Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.

Sunday 26, 2002:

Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.

Sunday 26, 1991:

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

Monday 26, 1986:

The European Community adopts the European flag.

Friday 26, 1978:

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.

Thursday 26, 1977:

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

Friday 26, 1972:

The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Tuesday 26, 1970:

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

Monday 26, 1969:

John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.

Thursday 26, 1966:

British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.

Sunday 26, 1963:

The Organisation of African Unity is formed.

Wednesday 26, 1948:

The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

Sunday 26, 1940:

World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.

Thursday 26, 1938:

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

Sunday 26, 1918:

The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.

Tuesday 26, 1908:

At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.

Saturday 26, 1906:

Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

Wednesday 26, 1897:

Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.

Tuesday 26, 1896:

James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.

Sunday 26, 1889:

Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public

Monday 26, 1879:

Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.

Tuesday 26, 1868:

The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.

Friday 26, 1865:

American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

Thursday 26, 1864:

Montana is organized as a United States territory.

Wednesday 26, 1830:

The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

Monday 26, 1828:

Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.

Sunday 26, 1805:

Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.

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.

Monday 26, 1670:

In Dover, King Charles II of England and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.

Tuesday 26, 1637:

Pequot War: A combined Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.

Thursday 26, 1538:

Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

Wednesday 26, 1328:

William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a sentence of death from Pope John XXII.

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