| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 1923 | Horst Tapper: German director / actor (Derrick) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Oren Lee Staley: 1st President of National Farmers Organization (1955-79) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Roy Dotrice: Channel Islands, Guernsey -- Actor (Wizard) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg | |||
| 26 May 1923 | James Arness, American actor and producer (d. 2011) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Roy Dotrice, English actor | |||
| 26 May 1923 | The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June. | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Horst Tapper German director/actor (Derrick) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | James Arness Minneapolis MN, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Oren Lee Staley 1st president of National Farmers Organization (1955-79) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Roy Dotrice Guernsey Channel Island, actor (The Wizard) | |||
| 26 May 1923 | 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run | |||
| 26 May 1923 | Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 1948 | Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers | |||
| 26 May 1948 | South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (b. 1896) | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Theodor Morell, German physician (b. 1886) | |||
| 26 May 1948 | The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. | |||
| 26 May 1948 | WW2 | Theodore Morell passed away. | ||
| 26 May 1948 | birth Stevie Nicks, singer, Fleetwood Mac, (1987 UK No.5 single 'Little Lies' and 1977 US No.1 single 'Dreams', from world-wide No.1 album 'Rumours'). Solo, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.11 album 'Bella Donna', 1989 UK No. 16 single 'Rooms On Fire'). | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Geoff Greenidge cricketer (no relation to Gordon, West Indies opener 1972-74) | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Stevie [Stephanie Lynn] Nicks Phoenix AZ, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna) | |||
| 26 May 1948 | Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers | |||
| 26 May 1948 | South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy | |||
26 May 1948
George Newman |
death George Newman Sir George Newman (born 1870), English public health physician. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 1973 | Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Naomi Harris, Canadian-American photographer | |||
| 26 May 1973 | The Edgar Winter Group went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Frankenstein', the bands only US No.1, it reached No.18 in the UK. The group featured ex McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. In live performances of the song, Edgar Winter further pioneered the advancement of the synthesizer as a lead instrument by becoming the first person ever to strap a keyboard instrument around his neck. | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Jacques Lipchitz US cubist sculptor, dies at 81 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players hits #15 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | "Super Fly Meets Shaft" by John & Ernest hits #31 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Bahrain adopts it's constitution | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1 | |||
| 26 May 1973 | Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 1998 | Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton | |||
| 26 May 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. | |||
| 26 May 1998 | The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people. | |||
| 26 May 1998 | Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 2003 | Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (b. 1919) | |||
| 26 May 2003 |
death Gerald S. Hawkins Died 26 May 2003 at age 75 (born 20 Apr 1928). Gerald Stanley Hawkins was an English-American radio astronomer and mathematician who used a computer to show that Stonehenge was a prehistoric astronomical observatory. In the 18th century, William Stukely had noticed that the horseshoe of trilithons and 19 bluestones opened up in the direction of the midsummer sunrise. Hawkins identified 165 key points that correlated the stones and other archaeological features of the neolithic complex to the rising and setting positions of the sun and moon over an 18.6-year cycle. He first published his findings in an article, Stonehenge Decoded, in the journal Nature (1963), and then in a book with the same title (1965). In Beyond Stonehenge he explored the mysteries of Machu Pichu, the Nasca Lines, Easter Island and the Egyptian Temples of Karnak and Amon-Ra. In the 1990s, he studied the geometry of crop circles. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 2008 | Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934) | |||
| 26 May 2008 | Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian cyclist (b. 1973) | |||
| 26 May 2008 | Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 May 2013 | Ray Barnhart, American businessman and politician (b. 1928) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | John Bierwirth, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1924) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Roberto Civita, Italian-Brazilian businessman (b. 1936) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (b. 1969) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (b. 1940) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Otto Muehl, Austrian painter (b. 1925) | |||
| 26 May 2013 | Jack Vance, American author (b. 1916) | |||
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