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Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2026. There are 219 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Read more Horoscopes May 26, 2026: Lenny Kravitz, observe the possibilities<\/a><\/p>\n

Today in history:<\/h4>\n

On May 26, 2009, California\u2019s Supreme Court upheld the state\u2019s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid. (Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in June 2015.)<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.<\/p>\n

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which barred immigration from Asia and restricted the total number of immigrants from other parts of the world to 165,000 annually.<\/p>\n

In 1927, the Ford Model T officially ended production as Henry Ford and his son Edsel drove the 15 millionth Model T off the Ford assembly line in Highland Park, Michigan.<\/p>\n

In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.<\/p>\n

In 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.<\/p>\n

Read more Asking Eric: They are wonderful parents but the house is a nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1954, an explosion occurred aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors.<\/p>\n

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In 1967, the Beatles album \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d was released.<\/p>\n

In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty under President George W. Bush in 2002.)<\/p>\n

In 1981, 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.<\/p>\n

In 2009, President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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In 2011, Ratko Mladi\u0107, the Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt. (Extradited to face trial in The Hague, Netherlands, Mladi\u0107 was convicted in 2017 on genocide and war crimes charges and is serving a life sentence.)<\/p>\n

Read more Harriette Cole: Since I moved in to my boyfriend\u2019s house, I\u2019ve been biting my tongue<\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n
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  • Singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks is 78.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Pam Grier is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is 71.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Genie Francis is 64.<\/li>\n
  • Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait is 64.<\/li>\n
  • Musician Lenny Kravitz is 62.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Helena Bonham Carter is 60.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Joseph Fiennes is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Actor-producer-writer Matt Stone is 55.<\/li>\n
  • Singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill is 51.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Jaheim is 48.<\/li>\n
  • NHL player Mathew Barzal is 29.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lola Flanery is 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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