Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 26
This is a list of selected May 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Damage to the Interstate 40 bridge
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Sorry Day in Australia; | refimprove |
| ; Mother's Day in Poland | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Guyana (1966) | refimprove sections |
| 451 – Armenian rebels were defeated by forces of the Sassanid Empire on the Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan, but the loss played a major factor in their being granted religious freedom 33 years later. | refimprove section |
| 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy at the Milan Cathedral with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. | refimprove section |
| 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. | refimprove |
| 1857 – American slave Dred Scott, who had previously unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, was emancipated by Henry Taylor Blow, his original owner. | external links |
| 1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, at that time representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1897 – Dracula, Irish author Bram Stoker's most famous novel, was first published. | lots of CN tags in one section (equivalent to refimprove section) |
| 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – Henry Ford watched as the 15 millionth Model T roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. | refimprove section |
| 1972 – U.S. president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. | refimprove |
| 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. | multiple issues |
| 2008 – Severe flooding began in eastern and southern China that ultimately caused 148 deaths and forced the evacuation of 1.3 million people. | self-contradictory |
Eligible
- 1328 – English friar William of Ockham, who popularised the methodological principle known as Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
- 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claimed victory in the Battle of Montijo.
- 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war.
- 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of Of Plymouth Plantation, the account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony they founded in North America, to Massachusetts.
- 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thames between Vauxhall and Westminster.
- 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by people or organizations in the U.S. suspected of having communist or fascist ties.
- 1940 – Second World War: The mass evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops (pictured) cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk began.
- 1999 – Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League to become the first English football club to win three major championships in the same season.
- 2002 – Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge (aftermath pictured) near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing 11 vehicles to fall into Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River.
- Born/died: | Augustine of Canterbury |d|604| Bede |d|735| Yuan Xingqin |d|926| Louis I of Naples |d|1362| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough |b|1650| Abdelkader al-Jazairi |d|1883| Mamie Smith |b|1891| Imi Lichtenfeld |b|1910| Miles Davis |b|1926| Paul E. Patton |b|1937| Lauryn Hill |b|1975| Mamo Wolde |d|2002
Notes
- Blackwall Tunnel appears on May 22, so Vauxhall Bridge should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Boulogne (1940) appears on May 25, so Dunkirk evacuation should not appear in the same year
- The Long and Winding Road appears on June 13, so Sgt. Pepper should not appear in the same year
May 26: Independence Day in Georgia (1918)
Artist's impression of the Grue Church fire
- 946 – King Edmund I of England was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine.
- 1637 – Pequot War: Allied Puritan and Mohegan forces attacked a fortified Pequot village in the Connecticut Colony, killing between 400 and 700 people.
- 1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history (depicted) occurred at a church in Grue, killing at least 113 people.
- 1967 – The Beatles' eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was released.
- 1991 – Shortly after leaving Bangkok, an engine thrust reverser on Lauda Air Flight 004 deployed without being commanded, causing the aircraft to break apart and killing all 223 people on board.
- Edmond de Goncourt (b. 1822)
- Adolfo de la Huerta (b. 1881)
- Elizabeth Peer (d. 1984)