Today is Saturday, May 26, the 147th day of 2012. There are 219 days left in the year.

1521 ― Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers

1860 ― Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy

1896 ― Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)

1922 ― Lenin suffers a stroke

1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo

1946 ― Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb

1972 ― Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1993 ― Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a homerun

1994 ― Michael Jackson ,35, weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley, 26

1998 ― Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton