1908<\/strong> – In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – Actors\u2019 Equity Association was organized in New York City.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – In Morocco, rebel leader Abd el Krim surrendered.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – A patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed a military pact with Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin promised a “close collaboration after the war.”<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress passed Public Law 557 which permanently established the Civil Air Patrol as the Auxiliary of the new\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – The first trailer bank opened for business in Locust Grove, Long Island,\u00a0NY. The 46-foot-long trailer took in $100,000 in deposits its first day.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Union Square, San Francisco became a state historical landmark.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The word “Frisbee” became a registered trademark of Wham-O.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Civil rights activist group Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta,\u00a0GA.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – A\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force bomber flew across the Atlantic in a record time of just over three hours.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The\u00a0Apollo 10<\/i>\u00a0astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) was signed by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and USSR. The short-term agreement put a freeze on the testing and deployment of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles for a 5-year period.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Kathy Schmidt set an American women\u2019s javelin record with a throw of 207 feet, 10 inches.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – American stuntman Evel Knievel suffered severe spinal injuries in Britain when he crashed while attempting to jump 13 buses in his car.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – George H. Willig was arrested after he scaled the South Tower of New York’s World Trade Center. It took him 3 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – The first legal casino in the Eastern\u00a0U.S.\u00a0opened in Atlantic City,\u00a0NJ.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Sri Lanka launched Operation Liberation. It was an offensive against the Tamil rebellion in Jaffra.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The Edmonton Oilers won their fourth NHL Stanley Cup in five seasons. They swept the series 4 games to 0 against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China’s trade status with its human rights record.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island was mainly in\u00a0New Jersey, not\u00a0New York.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court ruled those police officers in high-speed chases are liable for bystander injuries only if their “actions shock the conscience.”<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The\u00a0Grand Princess<\/i>\u00a0cruise ship made its inaugural cruise. The ship measured 109,000 tons and cost approximately $450 million, making it the largest and most expensive cruise ship ever built.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The United States Senate approved legislation that allowed the U.S. Mint flexibility on how the mandatory inscriptions on the Washington quarter could be placed. H.R. 3301 allowed the mandatory inscriptions to be moved to the front of the quarter for the 50 States Circulating Commemorative Coin Program.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0complete\u00a0an unprecedented\u00a0Treble\u00a0as they beat Bayern Munich 2-1 to add their second\u00a0European Cup\u00a0triumph to their\u00a0Premier League\u00a0and\u00a0FA Cup success, becoming the first and only English club to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The tugboat\u00a0Robert Y. Love<\/i>\u00a0collides\u00a0with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the\u00a0Arkansas River\u00a0near\u00a0Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 United States Army veteran\u00a0Terry Nichols\u00a0is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the\u00a0Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Severe flooding\u00a0begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.<\/p>\n History of 26 May 1908 – In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East. 1913 – Actors\u2019 Equity Association was organized in New York City. 1926 – In Morocco, rebel leader Abd el Krim surrendered. 1938 – The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[741,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-26-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1gS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24205,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/24205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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