About May 26
May 26, 2020 is the 147th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 262 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 26
- 451 –Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
- 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.
- 1736 –Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
- 1828 –Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1830 –The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- 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.
- 1868 –The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- 1879 –Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- 1897 –Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- 1918 –The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
- 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.
- 1966 –British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
- 1972 –The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1986 –The European Community adopts the European flag.
- 1991 –Lauda Air Flight 004 crashes in rural Thailand, killing 223.
- 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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