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National Sorry Day in Australia; | refimprove |
; Mother's Day in Poland | refimprove section |
Independence Day in Guyana (1966) | refimprove section |
451 – Armenian rebels were defeated by forces of the Sassanid Empire on the Avarayr Plain in Vaspurakan, but the loss played a major factor in their being granted religious freedom 33 years later. | refimprove section |
1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy at the Milan Cathedral with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. | refimprove section |
1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history took place at a church in Grue, Norway, with at least 113 deaths. | refimprove |
1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. | refimprove |
1857 – American slave Dred Scott, who had previously unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, was emancipated by Henry Taylor Blow, his original owner. | refimprove section |
1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, at that time representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index. | unreferenced sections |
1897 – Dracula, Irish author Bram Stoker's most famous novel, was first published. | refimprove section |
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. | refimprove section |
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. | refimprove |
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. | needs more footnotes |
2008 – Severe flooding began in eastern and southern China that ultimately caused 148 deaths and forced the evacuation of 1.3 million people. | discrepancies in deaths and displacement numbers |
May 26: Independence Day in Georgia (1918);
Bede (d. 735) · John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (b. 1650) · Imi Lichtenfeld (b. 1910)