May 26th - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

The May 26th is the 146e Jour of the Année (147e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1303 : Élizabeth Ryksa wife Venceslas II and it is crowned queen of Bohemia and Poland.
1463 : Louis XI, coming from Guienne, where it had signed peace with the kings de Castille, of Aragon and Navarre, makes its entry with Toulouse.
1657 : Louis XIV, King de France, aspires to the crown of emperor of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire, by making application form officially, but it is the Germanic candidate - Léopold de Habsbourg - which will be elected, in 1658.
1896 : Crowning of the emperor Nicolas II of Russia.

1933 : The Australia asserts a third of the continent the Antarctic.
1944 : Bombardment of Chambéry, Grenoble, Lyon, Nice and Saint-Etienne
1954: The funerary boat of the Pharaon Khéops is discovered in Egypt.
1964 : The China rejects a call of the the United Kingdom, requiring of him to intervene so that the engagements with the Laos cease.
1966 : Independence of the Guyana
1972: During a top with Moscow, Richard Nixon, president of the the United States and Leonid Brezhnev secretary of PCUS signed an agreement of limitation of the nuclear weapons.
1979 : Israel officially restores with the Egypt the town of El Arich, capital of the the Sinai, pursuant to the Camp David agreements.
1986 : The European Community adopts officially its flag.
1991 : the Boeing 767 ensuring the flight 004 of the company Lauda Air is crushed in Thailand making 223 victims.
1993 : The Olympique of Marseilles finally gains the “Ligue of the champions” while beating with Munich, the Milan AC 1 to 0, on a blow of head of Basile Boli, and becomes thus the first French club to gain a European competition.
1994 : The the United States and the Vietnam take again diplomatic relations.

2001 . France: the SNCF establishes the railway record of endurance between Calais and Marseilles with 1067,2 km traversed in 3 hours and 29 minutes with the oar TGV Network n° 531

1650 : British general John Churchill (Marlborough), ancestor of Winston Churchill
1669: Valiant Sebastien, French botanist († 1722).
1799 : Felipe Poey, zoologist Cuba in († 1891).
1799 : Alexandre Pouchkine, poet, playwright and Russian novelist († 1837).
1855 : Vittoria Aganoor, Italian poetess. († April 9th 1910).
1878 : Isadora Duncan, American dancer who revolutionized the contemporary dance by her improvisations († 1927).
1881 : Adolfo of Huerta, president of the Mexico in 1920 († 1925).
1883 : Granny Smith, dancer of review, singer of jazz and blues and American actress († 1946)
1885: Gaston Baty, man of Theater
1886: Al Jolson, type-setter and American actor († 1950).
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