05. 26. ON THIS DAY in past

in #history6 years ago

On this day in history so many things happened, both good and bad.
Here are some of the events that happened on this day:

961
German King Otto II crowned

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

1805
Lewis & Clark first sight the Rocky Mountains

1805
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy
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1834
Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates

1857
US slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow 3 months after US courts ruled against them.

1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy

1896
Last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

1915
H. H. Asquith forms a coalition government in the United Kingdom

1922
Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke
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1923
1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run

1924
US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration

1927
Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie
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1940
1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky

1955
Conservatives led by Anthony Eden win British parliamentary election

1963
15th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win

1969
Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth

1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their 2nd bed-in for peace (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
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1972
Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1972
US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT accord

1975
"Rhinestone Cowboy" single released by Glen Campbell (Billboard Song of the Year 1975)

1978
1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

1982
26th European Cup: Aston Villa beats Bayern Munich 1-0 at Rotterdam

1993
1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich

2000
Arthur C. Clarke is knighted "for services to literature" at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka
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2002
Eminem releases his 4th studio album “The Eminem Show” (2002 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award Best Rap Album 2003)

2004
12th UEFA Champions League Final: Porto beats AS Monaco 3-0 at Gelsenkirchen

2013
66th Cannes Film Festival: "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" directed by Abdellatif Kechiche wins the Palme d'Or. The two main actresses in the film, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux also awarded

2014
Narendra Modi becomes the 15th Prime Minister of India

And here are a few people who were born on this day

1895
Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1971)

1907
John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), born in Winterset, Iowa (d. 1979)
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1913
Peter Cushing, English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who), born in Kenley, Surrey, England (d. 1994)

1926
Miles Davis, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer, born in Alton, Illinois (d. 1991)

1949
Hank Williams Jr, country singer (Honky Tonk), born in Shreveport, Louisiana

1951
Sally Ride, American astronaut (first American woman to go to space), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)

1964
Lenny Kravitz, American musician who holds the record for most Grammy Awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (1999-2002), born in Manhattan, New York

1966
Helena Bonham Carter, British actress (Harry Potter, Fight Club, The King's Speech, Enid, The Wings of the Dove), born in London, England

1975
Lauryn Hill, American singer-songwriter (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), born in East Orange, New Jersey
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And that's just a small part of all that happened on this day in history, and I hope you liked this little thing I set.
Have a nice day, and know that one day on this day will remember and there will be only history. so do something that people will remember

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