This Day in History 26/05
MAY 26TH
1647 – Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy
1824 – Brazil is recognized by US
1896 – Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) 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 United Kingdom.
1918 – Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1926 – Lebanon adopts constitution
1948 – South Africa elects a nationalist government under D.F. Malan with an apartheid policy
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1907 – John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], Winterset IA, actor (Green Berets, True Grit)
1913 – Peter Cushing, England, actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who)
1915 – Antonia Forest, British children’s author (d. 2003)
1926 – Miles Davis, Alton, Illinois, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1935 – Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, London, English actress (Fight Club, Howards End)
1975 – Lauryn Hill, South Orange New Jersey, American singer-songwriter (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (1413-21). B. 1389.
1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (1481-1512) dies at 62
1814 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2011 – Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920)
2013 – Jack Vance, American science fiction author, dies
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