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
- 17 –Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
- 1293 –An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
- 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.
- 1770 –The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- 1783 –A Great Jubilee Day held at Trumbull, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
- 1805 –Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
- 1828 –Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1879 –Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- 1896 –Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- 1897 –Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- 1906 –Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
- 1917 –Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
- 1918 –The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- 1970 –The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1972 –The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1972 –Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1981 –Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
- 1998 –The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
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