Tuesday, May 28, 2013

May 26 in history


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MAY 25      INDEX      MAY 27
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47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.

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.

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.

946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.

1135 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain".

1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.

1328 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.

1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.

1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.

1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.

1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.

1736 – The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.

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 North Stratford, 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 Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.

1805 – Explorers Lewis and Clark first sight the Rocky Mountains.

1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.

1822 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.

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: the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

1868 – Michael Barrett was the last person to be publicly executed in Great Britain.

1868 – The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on the remaining charges.

1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.

1896 – Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.

1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

1897 – The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.

1900 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.

1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.

1908 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

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.

1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held, and has since been run annually in June.

1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.

1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

1940 – World War II: Operation Dynamo – In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France, of British, French, and Belgian troops that had been cut off and surrounded by Germans.

1940 – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.

1941 – Seamstress and American Flag creator Betsy Ross’ home, American Flag House, is given to Philadelphia.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.

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.

1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.

1966 – The Beatles' eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was released.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.

1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.

1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).

1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.

1983 – The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.

1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.

1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.

1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767, crashes in an area of western Thailand after a thrust reverser malfunction. All 223 people aboard are killed.

1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.

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.

1998 – The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.

2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.

2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.

2012 – A cannibal attack takes place on the MacArthur Causeway in Miami, Florida.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western



Contemporary Western

Augustine of Canterbury
Lambert of Vence
Peter Sanz (one of Martyr Saints of China)
Philip Neri
Pope Eleuterus
Quadratus of Athens
Zachary, Bishop of Vienne


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox


Saints

Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus (possibly Cleopas) of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
Martyrs Abercius and Helen,[3][4] children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st c.)
Martyr Julius, Roman soldier, by beheading, at Dorostolum in Mysia
      (Asia Minor) (302)
Saint Synesius, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 5th c.)
Venerable John of Psichaita the Confessor, of Constantinople (c. 825)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Hieromartyr Zacharias, Bishop of Vienne, suffered under Trajan (106)
Hieromartyr Simitrius priest, and 22 other martyrs, who suffered under
      Antoninus Pius, at Rome (159)
Saint Eleutherius, Pope of Rome (189)
Saints Fugatius (Fagan) and Damian (Deruvian), sent by Pope Eleutherius
      to England to preach the Gospel (2nd c.)
Martyr Priscus, a Roman legionary officer, and a great multitude of other
      Christians of Besançon, near Auxerre (272)
Martyrs Felicissimus, Heraclius, and Paulinus, at Todi in Umbria (303)
Martyr Quadratus, a martyr in North Africa
Saint Bécán, a hermit near Cork in Ireland in the time of St Columba; founder
      of Kilbeggan, Westmeath, worked in a monastery there (6th c.)
Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England (605)
Saint Oduvald, a noble who became a monk and later Abbot of Melrose Abbey
      in Scotland (698)
Saint Regintrudis, fourth Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria
Saint Guinizo, born in Spain, became a monk at Montecassino in Italy (c. 1050)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

New Martyr George of Sofia (George the New, George the Serbian) (1515)
New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, the former Dervish,
      beheaded at Smyrna (1794)
Saint Innocent, Bishop of Cherson (1857)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyrs Milan Banjac and Milan Golubovic, of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945)

Other commemorations

Translation of the relics of Saint Bertilla (692), Abbess of Chelles
Uncovering of the relics (1521) of Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Kolyazin (1483)
Translation of the relics (1534) of New Martyr George of Kratovo and Sofia (1515)
The Icon of the Mother of God of Seligersk-Vladimir (16th c.)



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