Today is Saturday, May 26, the 147th day of 2012. There are 219 days left in the year.
1521 ― Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers
1860 ― Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy
1896 ― Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1922 ― Lenin suffers a stroke
1945 ― U.S. drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 ― Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb
1972 ― Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1993 ― Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a homerun
1994 ― Michael Jackson ,35, weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley, 26
1998 ― Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton