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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 03:28:12 -0500
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Only 219 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
International Jazz Day
On The Way To Today... May 26th
1521 - The Edict of Worms outlawed Martin Luther and his followers,
following his Papal excommunication in April.
1798 - During the Irish Rebellion, the British killed about 500 Irish
insurgents at the Battle of Tara.
1805 - Napoleon was crowned king of Italy in Milan cathedral.
1834 - The Portuguese Civil War ended with the capitulation of the
pretender, Dom Miguel.
1836 - The United States House of Representatives adopted what has
been called the Gag Rule. This rule was made to restrict needless,
overly long discussion about legislation in Congress.
1865 - The last Confederate resistance of the American Civil War ended
when Gen. Kirby Smith surrendered at New Orleans. The Confederates had
already signed a surrender on April 9.
1868 - Irish nationalist Michael Barrett was hanged for a bomb attack
at Clerkenwell, London -- the last public execution in England.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was finally acquitted of
impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1879 - The British and Afghans signed the Treaty of Gandamak giving
the British control of the Khyber Pass.
1923 - The first Le Mans 24-hour motor race was run.
1940 - Operation Dynamo began to evacuate defeated Allied troops from
Dunkirk.
1942 - Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London, providing for full
collaboration during and after World War II.
1960 - U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding
a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United
States that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1966 - British Guiana became an independent member of the
Commonwealth, changing its name to Guyana.
1969 - The Apollo X astronauts returned to Earth after a successful
eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
1971 - The Soviet Union's answer to Concorde, the TU-144, made its
first appearance in the West at the Paris Air Show.
1977 - The man called The Human Fly, George Willig, scaled the World
Trade Center in New York City, by fixing himself up to the window
washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police
custody when he reached the top! It took Willig three and a half hours
to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines - a penny per floor.
1978 - The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1981 - 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight
deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.
1982 - In the Falklands war, the British container ship Atlantic
Conveyor and destroyer Coventry were both hit, killing 33.
1991 - An Austrian Lauda-Air Boeing 767 crashed after a stopover in
Bangkok, killing 223.
1997 - Australian Prime Minister John Howard made an unexpected
personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken
from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation.
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