5 Khordad 1400

Events

• 1805 (221 years ago) 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.
• 1864 (162 years ago) President Abraham Lincoln signs legislation organizing the Montana Territory.
• 1879 (147 years ago) Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
• 1903 (123 years ago) Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.
• 1908 (118 years ago) The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France. The Battle of Dunkirk begins simultaneously as Allied defenders fight to slow down the German offensive.
• 1966 (60 years ago) British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.

Births

• 1478 (548 years ago) Clement VII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1534)
• 1566 (460 years ago) Mehmed III, Ottoman sultan (died 1603)
• 1907 (119 years ago) John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (died 1979)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (died 1991)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Jeremy Corbyn, British journalist and politician
• 1951 (75 years ago) Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, founded Sally Ride Science (died 2012)
• 1966 (60 years ago) Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
• 1968 (58 years ago) Frederik X, King of Denmark

Deaths

• 735 (1291 years ago) Bede, English monk, historian, and theologian
• 1421 (605 years ago) Mehmed I, Ottoman sultan (born 1389)
• 1512 (514 years ago) Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1447)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (born 1808)
• 1976 (50 years ago) Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (born 1889)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1934)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American politician (born 1928)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Ray Liotta, American actor (born 1954)

All 352 events, births and deaths of May 26