About May 26
May 26, 2024 is the 147th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 248 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 26
- 1328 –William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
- 1637 –Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
- 1647 –Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
- 1783 –A Great Jubilee Day held at Trumbull, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
- 1828 –Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1857 –Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- 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.
- 1868 –The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- 1869 –Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- 1897 –Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- 1906 –Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
- 1908 –At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) 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 Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
- 1938 –In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
- 1966 –British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
- 1970 –The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1972 –Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1977 –George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center.
- 1991 –Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
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