May 26th
Today in America's Present Past
1637 | Indian Wars: Fort Mystic massacre.
1647 | Civil Rights: Also Young, the first person in the U.S. executed on the allegation of being a “witch.”
1647 | Civil Rights: Massachusetts bars Catholic priests from entering its colony.
1736 | Indian Wars: Battle of Ackia, Louisiana.
1805 | Lewis and Clark sight the Rocky Mountains for the first time.
1857 | Civil Rights: Dred Scott freed by his owner, Henry Blow, three months after SCOTUS ruled against him.
1868 | POTUS: The Senate acquitted President Andrew Johnson, adjourning his impeachment.
1869 | Boston University is formed.
1886 | Entertainer Al Jolson was born.
1896 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average starts.
1907 | Actor John Wayne was born.
1926 | Musician Miles Davis was born.
1927 | Entrepreneur David Edgerton was born.
1937 | Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, Michigan.
1938 | Congress: The House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities is formed.
1940 | The first successful helicopter flight in the U.S.
1943 | Entrepreneur Edsel Ford died.
1945 | WWII: U.S. forces fire bomb Tokyo, Japan.
1948 | Musician Stevie Nicks was born.
1949 | Musician Hank Williams Jr. was born.
1951 | Astronaut Sally Ride was born.
1964 | Musician Lenny Kravitz was born.
1972 | POTUS: Republican President Nixon signs the SALT accord.
1998 | SCOTUS: Rules that Ellis Island is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2004 | War on Terror: Terry Nichols is convicted of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
2005 | Actor Eddie Albert died.
2006 | Entrepreneur Édouard Michelin died.
2022 | Actor Ray Liotta died.