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