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What happened in history on this day: May 26?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On May 26 in ...
- 1995 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issues an internal memo "The Internet Tidal Wave", saying he believes the Internet to be the single most important development in the computer industry since the IBM Personal Computer. He gives the highest level of importance to the Internet, calling it "critical to every part of our business".
- 1998 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the K6-2 processor, featuring 266, 300, or 333 MHz speed, 100 MHz bus and cache, 3DNow! instructions, and incorporating 9.3 million transistors.
- 2003 - Palm announces it has sold 1 million Zire handheld computers.
- 2003 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 3200+ processor. It features 333 MHz front-side bus. Price is US$464 in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2003 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 3000+ desktop processor. It features 400 MHz system bus. Price is US$280 in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2005 - Intel releases the 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 model 670 processor. It features 2 MB cache, 800 MHz front-side bus and 90-nanometre traces. Price is US$849 in 1000 unit quantities.
- 2005 - Intel releases the Pentium D processor, models 820, 830, and 840. They feature dual cores, each with 2 MB level 2 cache, 800 MHz front-side bus, EM64T instructions, Enhanced Speed Step Technology, 90 nm process, 230 million transistors, 206 mm2 die size. Speeds and prices in 1000 unit quantities are 2.8 GHz (US$241), 3.0 GHz (US$316), and 3.2 GHz (US$530).
- 2006 - Barbados issues a postage stamp depicting children at a personal computer.
- 2010 - Market capitalization of Apple (US$222 billion) passes Microsoft (US$219 billion) for the first time since December 19,1989. Apple stock is worth more than 10 times what they were 10 years ago, whereas Microsoft stock is down 20 percent over the same time period.
- 1928 - Walt Disney copyrights the film Plane Crazy.
- 1963 - The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards an Emmy Award (outstanding program achievements in the field of children's programming) to the Walt Disney Studio for the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color TV show.
- 1976 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film Escape From the Dark to theaters in Great Britain.
- 1983 - The EPCOT Outreach information area opens in Communicore West in EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World.
- 1990 - The Calling Dick Tracy shop opens on Hollywood Boulevard in Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World.
- 1990 - The Mickey's Starland attraction opens in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1991 - The Disney TV movie Plymouth airs.
- 1991 - The NBC TV network airs the last show of the series The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage.
- 1995 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Mad Love to theaters in the USA.
- 2000 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Shanghai Noon to theaters in the USA.
- 2006 - Disney world premieres the film Cars at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 2007 - The Disney Wonder cruise ship begins Disney Cruise Line's first 11-night Mediterranean sailings from Barcelona, Spain.
- 1980 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway in Lime Rock, Connecticut, the IMSA GT Challenge 90-minute race is held.
- Finishing 4th in GTO class and 7th overall is the Dynasales #48 Corvette driven by John Carusso.
- Finishing 6th in GTO class and 9th overall is the Lamber's Corvettes #72 Corvette driven by Murray Edwards.
- Placing 6th in GTX class and 16th overall is the #27 Corvette driven by Rich Sloma.
- Placing 7th in GTX class and 17th overall is the USA Racing #68 Corvette driven by Richard Valentine.
- Placing 11th in GTO class and 18th overall is the #99 Corvette driven by Phil Currin.
- 1986 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway, in Lime Rock, Connecticut, the IMSA Camel Grand Prix race is held. The Corvette GTP finishes 7th.
- 2001 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway in Lakeville, Connecticut, the Lime Rock Park Grand Prix is held, Round 5 of the Rolex Grand-American Sports Car Series.
- Finishing 1st in AGT class and 13th overall is the #09 Team X-1R Corvette, driven by Craig Conway and Doug Goad.
- Finishing 2nd in AGT class and 18th overall is the #18 Comer Racing Corvette, driven by Jack Willes.
- Finishing 4th in AGT class and 23rd overall is the #46 ACP Motorsports Corvette, driven by Kerry Hitt and Alex Tradd.
- 2002 - The Indianapolis 500 race is held. A modified 2003 50th Anniversary Edition Pace Car Corvette is the official pace car, driven by Jim Caviezel.
- 2003 - At the Lime Rock Park in Lime Rock, Connecticut, round four of the Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup is held.
- Finishing 2nd is the Revolution Motorsports #10 Corvette, driven by Bobby Sak.
- Finishing 4th is the Trenton Forging/GMAC Commercial Finance #2 Corvette, driven by Stuart Hayner.
- Finishing 5th is the #78 Corvette, driven by P.L. Newman.
- Finishing 9th is the ROH Wheels #06 Corvette, driven by Joey Scarallo.
- Finishing 11th is the Derhaag Motorsports/Preformed Line Products #49 Corvette, driven by Randy Ruhlman.
- Finishing 14th is the Unicco Service Co #20 Corvette, driven by Garrett Kletjian.
- Finishing 16th is the Derhaag Motorsports #59 Corvette, driven by Simon Gregg.
- 2003 - At the Lime Rock Park raceway in Lakeville, Connecticut, the Mohegan Sun Presents the Lime Rock Park Grand Prix Weekend races are held, round four of the SCCA Pro Racing Speed World Challenge GT series.
- Finishing 6th is the 3R Racing #73 Corvette Z06, driven by Phil McClure.
- Finishing 8th is the Metric Chemical #35 Corvette Z06, driven by David Farmer.
- Finishing 10th is the Popeyes #52 Corvette Z06, driven by Henry Gilbert.
- Finishing 11th is the Rathmann Chevy #16 Corvette Z06, driven by Jim Rathmann. Rathmann is awarded the Sunoco Hard Charger Award.
- In 15th place, but not finishing the race, is the Tiger Racing #99 Corvette Z06, driven by Thomas Oates.
- In 17th place, but not finishing the race, is the Courtesy Chevrolet #5 Corvette Z06, driven by Don Campbell.
- In 18th place, but not finishing the race, is the Black Dog Racing #25 Corvette, driven by Tony Gaples.
- 2008 - At Lime Rock Park the Grand-Am GT Classic race is held, round 6 of the Grand-American Road Racing Championship.
- Finishing 12th in GT class and 12th overall is Heinricy/Knowles/Aquilante in the #35 Phoenix Performance Inc. Corvette.
- Finishing 17th in GT class and 17th overall is Sahlen/Nonnamaker in the #42 Team Sahlen Corvette.
- Finishing 18th in GT class and 18th overall is Nonnamaker/Nonnamaker in the #43 Team Sahlen Corvette.
- 1940 - Adolf Hitler lifts his panzer halt order. Army headquarters directs panzers to move south to attack across the Somme River.
- 1940 - German forces take Boulogne and Calais, France.
- 1940 - Wilhelm Keitel issues an order for the German Air Force to attack British food supplies, public services, and aircraft industry.
- 1940 - (evening) A British order is given to implement Operation Dynamo, for British destroyers to rescue up to 4500 men of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, France, within two days.
- 1941 - (about 0600 hours) A reconnaissance plane from Northern Ireland spots the Bismarck.
- 1941 - (1036 hours) A Royal Air Force Coastal Command Catalina flying boat out of Loch Erne sights the Bismarck.
- 1941 - (1430 hours) British carrier Ark Royal arrives within fifty miles of the Bismarck, ready to launch aerial torpedo attacks.
- 1941 - Fourteen Swordfish planes from the Ark Royal launch torpedoes on a ship which turns out to be the British cruiser Sheffield. All torpedoes miss or detonate early.
- 1941 - (1915 hours) British carrier Ark Royal launches 15 Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bomber floatplanes against the Bismarck.
- 1941 - (2035 hours) Swordfish planes from Ark Royal contact the Sheffield, receiving visual signal of the position of the Bismarck.
- 1941 - Swordfish planes launch torpedo attacks on the Bismarck. Two hits are scored, one knocking out the steering gear, jamming the rudder at 15 degrees to port. Another torpedo strikes amidships, doing little damage.
- 1941 - (evening) Crete commander Major General Bernard Freyberg of New Zealand reports by radio to Cairo, Egypt, that his forces can no longer hold the island.
- 1942 - Great Britain and the Soviet Union conclude an alliance for twenty years.
- 1942 - British Deputy Chief of Air Staff Arthur Travers Harris issues final operation order for massive bombing of Cologne or Hamburg, on night of May 27/28 or up to May 31/June 1.
- 1942 - (evening) Axis forces in North Africa under German General Erwin Rommel resume attacks on British forces. Italian infantry make a diversionary frontal assault against the British Gazala line at Belhamed, a fifty mile long heavily mined defensive line. Rommel's 10,000-vehicle force begins a drive for the weak British southern flank.
- 1943 - At Peenemünde, comparison tests are made of the flying bomb (Fi.103 or FZG 76, later called V-1) and the A-4 rocket (V-2) in the presence of Nazi ministers and generals. Two rockets perform perfectly, flying 160 miles. Two flying bombs crash in the Baltic after travelling a mile or two. The Long-Range Bombardment Commission accepts the recommendation of putting both into production, top priority.
- 1943 - German submarine U-436 under commander Günther Seibicke is lost with all hands (47 dead).
- 1992 - Tonga issues postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of World War II in the Pacific.
- 1984 - In Houston, Texas, 14 top scorers from 14 regions of the US compete in the Grand National Finals of Konami's Track & Field arcade game. The top three will play in Japan in June against Japan's top three players.
- 1994 - Acclaim releases the Mortal Kombat video game for the Sega CD in the US.
- 2009 - Sony Computer Entertainment releases the Infamous video game for the PlayStation 3 in the USA.
- 2017 - Capcom releases the Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers video game for the Switch in the USA.
- 2017 - Grey Box releases the Rime video game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the USA.
- 1797 - The Mint delivers the last half dollars of the 18th century.
- 1934 - Congress authorizes Daniel Boone Bicentennial commemorative half dollar program, up to 600,000 coins.
- 1965 - (to May 28) The U.S. Mint facility in Denver Colorado melts all of the 1964-dated silver dollar trial pieces.
- 2008 - (to May 27) Superior Galleries conducts the Pre-Long Beach Elite Coin Auction of 1200 lots in Beverly Hills, California. USA 1879 Flowing Hair gold $4 Stella NGC PR-67 cameo: US$402,500.
- 2009 - The US Mint releases the 2009 Guam quarter dollar coin to circulation.
- 1874 - Second Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5.
- 1883 - 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42.5.
- 1884 - Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 and 7-3 in cricket versus England XI in four hours.
- 1896 - First American intercollegiate bicycle race, at Manhattan Beach, New York.
- 1898 - 32nd Belmont Stakes: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32.
- 1907 - Chicago White Sox' pitcher Ed Walsh no-hits New York Highlanders, 8-1 in five-inning game.
- 1909 - Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31).
- 1923 - First Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance race is run.
- 1925 - Detroit Tigers' Ty Cobb is first to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends at 1,139).
- 1928 - Philadelphia Athletics commit 7 errors and lose to New York Yankees 7-4.
- 1930 - Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway.
- 1933 - Philadelphia Phillies' Chuck Klein hits for the cycle versus Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1946 - 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball.
- 1956 - Cincinnati Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with two outs in the 10th and lose to Milwaukee Braves in 11th, 2-1.
- 1957 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open.
- 1959 - Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th.
- 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
- 1963 - Wes Stock becomes the only Baltimore Orioles' player to win a double header.
- 1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open.
- 1972 - Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in five rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1974 - Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic.
- 1975 - Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes.
- 1980 - Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton is first National League player to record six one-hitters.
- 1980 - Dietmar Mogenburg of Federal Republic of Germany ties high jump record at 7 feet 8 inches.
- 1982 - Aston Villa win the 27th European Cup beating Bayern Munich 1-0 in Rotterdam.
- 1983 - Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws.
- 1983 - 29th Walker Cup: US 13.5-Great Britain/Ireland 10.5.
- 1985 - Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin.
- 1985 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1988 - NHL Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in four games.
- 1990 - Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20.
- 1991 - Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1993 - Long fly ball by Cleveland Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head and goes over fence for a homerun.
- 1993 - Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich, Germany.
- 1996 - Indianapolis 500 race; Buddy Lazier wins with an average speed of 147.956 mph.
- 1996 - Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game.
- 1996 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic.
- 1997 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) and Tony Womack (Pittsburgh Pirates) hit inside the park homeruns.
- 1999 - Manchester United wins the UEFA Champions League at the Nou Camp stadium, Barcelona, beating Bayern Munich to lift their third major trophy of the season, after winning the English Premier League and FA Cup, an unprecedented feat for a single season.
- 2004 - F.C. Porto wins the European Champion Clubs Cup defeating A.S. Monaco by 3-0.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Texas Rangers beats Oakland Athletics by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Angels beats Arizona Diamondbacks by score 14-1.
- 2022 - At Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Los Angeles Angels by score 6-3.
- 2022 - At Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Boston Red Sox beats Chicago White Sox by score 16-7.
- 2022 - At Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Milwaukee Brewers beats Saint Louis Cardinals by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Kansas City Royals beats Minnesota Twins by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Philadelphia Phillies beats Atlanta Braves by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Detroit Tigers beats Cleveland Guardians by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Washington Nationals beats Colorado Rockies by score 7-3.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Yankees beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 7-2.
- 2022 - At Great America Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cincinnati Reds beats Chicago Cubs by score 20-5.
- 2022 - At Scotiabank Saddledrome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, NHL Western Conference 2nd Round, game 5: Edmonton Oilers defeats Calgary Flames by score 5-4, winning series 4-1.
- 2022 - At PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, NHL Eastern Conference 2nd Round, game 5: Carolina Hurricanes beats New York Rangers by score 3-1, leading series 3-2.
- 1969 - Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth.
- 1980 - Soyuz 36 carries two cosmonauts (one Hungarian) to Salyut 6.
- 1981 - Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth.
- 1983 - NASA launches Exosat.
- 2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2010 - NASA's Atlantis space shuttle lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after completing its 32nd and likely final mission, delivering a Russian module and spare equipment to the International Space Station.
- 1984 - Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13 inches of rain, 14 die.
- 2009 - More than 155 people are killed by Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh and West Bengal in eastern India. At least 500,000 people are made homeless by the storm.
- 1781 - Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1790 - Territory South of River Ohio created by US Congress.
- 1805 - Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains.
- 1829 - John Campbell takes office as US Treasurer.
- 1861 - US Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with CSA.
- 1861 - US Navy blockades New Orleans (Louisiana) and Mobile (Alabama).
- 1864 - Territory of Montana is formed.
- 1864 - Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia.
- 1865 - Battle of Galveston, Texas; Confederate States Army General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiates surrender of Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy.
- 1876 - HMS Challenger returns from 128,000km oceanographic exploration.
- 1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is first published in Customer's Afternoon Letter. It represents the average of twelve stocks from important American industries. The previous index by Charles Dow of mostly railroad stocks is replaced by only industrial stocks.Initial value is 40.94. The stocks are General Electric, American Cotton Oil Company, American Sugar Company, American Tobacco Company, Chicago Gas Company, Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company, Laclede Gas Light Company, National Lead Company, North American Company, Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company, U.S. Leather Company, and United States Rubber Company.
- 1906 - Archaeological Institute of America forms.
- 1913 - Actors' Equity Association forms (New York City).
- 1924 - US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration).
- 1927 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile.
- 1930 - US Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution.
- 1934 - (to October 31) The Century of Progress Exposition centennial fair opens for a second year in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1937 - In San Francisco, California, the Golden Gate Bridge unofficially opens, as 200,000 people across the new bridge.
- 1938 - House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work.
- 1941 - American Flag House (Betsy Ross' home) given to city of Philadelphia.
- 1943 - First president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia).
- 1944 - US 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mère Eglise.
- 1945 - American bomber planes drop fire bombs on Tokyo, Japan.
- 1946 - Patent filed in US for hydrogen bomb.
- 1956 - US Navy aircraft carrier Bennington burns off Rhode Island, killing 103.
- 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).
- 1958 - Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark.
- 1961 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- 1961 - US Air Force bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over three hours.
- 1966 - Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam.
- 1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1969 - Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth.
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT accord.
- 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 - George Willig climbs New York City World Trade Center.
- 1978 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, opens its first gambling casino, run by Resorts International. New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne opens the casino at 10AM. The first legal bet is made by Steve Lawrence, $10 on craps, pass, loses.
- 1981 - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14.
- 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1984 - Tulsa, Oklahoma gets 13 inches of rain, 14 die.
- 1987 - US Supreme Court rules dangerous defendants could be held without bail.
- 1987 - William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1992 - Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company parking lot. Kidnappers demand a ransom of $650,000 - they are later apprehended.
- 1995 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issues an internal memo "The Internet Tidal Wave", saying he believes the Internet to be the single most important development in the computer industry since the IBM Personal Computer. He gives the highest level of importance to the Internet, calling it "critical to every part of our business".
- 2002 - A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, leaving 14 dead.
- 2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2007 - In Woburn, Massachusetts, USA a meteorite punches a hole through a warehouse roof.
- 2009 - US President Barack Obama announces the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
- 2010 - NASA's Atlantis space shuttle lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after completing its 32nd and likely final mission, delivering a Russian module and spare equipment to the International Space Station.
- 2015 - Charter Communications announces it will acquire rivals Time Warner Cable and Bright House. The resulting company will be worth US$130 billion.
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