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