WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2010. There are 219 days left in the year.

1805 _ Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains

1805 _ Napoleon is crowned king of Italy

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

1945 _ U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo

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

1948 _ South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy

1972 _ Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1989 _ Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals

1994 _ Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)

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