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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

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  • Published May 25, 2011 4:11 pm KST
  • Updated May 25, 2011 4:11 pm KST

Today is Thursday, May 26, the 146th day of 2011. There are 219 days left in the year.

1788 ― Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain

1798 ― British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara

1805 ― Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains

1805 ― Napoleon is crowned king of Italy

1896 ― Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo

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

1969 ― John and Yoko begin their second bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)

1972 ― Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord

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