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
- 1538 –Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
- 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.
- 1828 –Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1857 –Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- 1864 –Montana is organized as a United States territory.
- 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.
- 1869 –Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- 1896 –Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 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.
- 1917 –Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
- 1936 –In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- 1972 –Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1977 –George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center.
- 1983 –A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
- 1991 –Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
- 2004 –The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
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