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MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008

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  • Published May 25, 2008 4:48 pm KST
  • Updated May 25, 2008 4:48 pm KST

Today is Monday, May 26, the 147th day of 2008. There are 219 days left in the year.

1805 _ Napoleon is crowned king of Italy

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

1922 _ Lenin suffers a stroke

1923 _ Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg

1943 _ First president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

1958 _ Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed

1972 _ Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1973 _ Beatles' ``The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes No. 1

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

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