Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2015. There are 219 days left in the year.
1521 ― Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers
1788 ― Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
1805 ― Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains
1896 ― Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1925 ― Tigers' Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1977 ― Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
1977 ― Movie Star Wars" debuts
1978 ― First legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1989 ― Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1994 ― Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)