Page 9: Historical Events In May - 26

1983  Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 on May - 26.   

1983  On May - 26 nASA launches Exosat   

1983  On May - 26 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1984  Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia on this day in history.   

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

1985  On this day in history danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin   

1985  On this day in history explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die   

1987  On this day in history 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  On this day in history supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail   

1987  On May - 26 william H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA   

1988  Stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games on May - 26.   

1988  Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games on May - 26.   

1989  Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals on this day in history.   

1989  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

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

1991  On May - 26 all 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand   

1991  Presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia on May - 26.   

1991  On this day in history tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41   

1992  Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour on May - 26.   

1992  On this day in history with the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Ukraine decide to split the Black Sea fleet   

1992  On May - 26 danny Biasone, basketball innovator (24-second clock), dies at 83   

1993  Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time on May - 26.   

1993  Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich on May - 26.   

1993  On this day in history carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91   

1994  On this day in history michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)   

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

1995  Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88 on May - 26.   

1996  Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 on May - 26.   

1997  Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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

2007  Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States. [10] on this day in history.   

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

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  Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34) was born on May - 26.   

1566  Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603) was born on this day in history.   

1566  Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603) was born on this day in history.   

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

1602  On May - 26 birth of philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)   

1667  Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) was born on May - 26.   

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history death of margrave Adalbert of Austria   

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

1512  On this day in history bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies   

1595  Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1609  On May - 26 death of cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried