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Tuesday, May 26, 1998
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"Evil finds itself in the large cities, the small cities,
the villages."
--
the
Rev. Dennis Rogers, whose Danville, Illinois, church was
bombed Sunday
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- A trial will be held for members of the Montana Freemen.
- Funeral services will be held for Oregon high-school shooting victim Mikael Nickolauson.
- On Wednesday, May 27, Michael Fortier will be sentenced for his role in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing.
- On Thursday, May 28, NATO foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg.
- On Friday, May 29, the sentencing of Adam Pletcher of Long Grove, Illinois, is to take place for attempting to extort money from Microsoft head Bill Gates.
- On Saturday, May 30, the MTV Movie Awards will be presented in Santa Monica, California.
- On Sunday, May 31, Pope John Paul II visits Poland.
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- Georgia celebrates Independence Restoration Day.
- Actor James Arness ("Gunsmoke") is 75.
- Actress Helena Bonham Carter ("A Room With a View") is 32.
- Actress Genie Francis ("General Hospital") is 36.
- Singer and musician Lenny Kravitz ("Are You Gonna Go My Way?") is 34.
- Singer Peggy Lee ("Fever") is 78.
- Sportscaster Brent Musburger is 59.
- Singer Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac is 50.
- Astronaut Sally Ride is 47.
- Actor Phillip Michael Thomas ("Miami Vice") is 49.
- Singer Hank Williams Jr. ("Country Boy Can Survive") is 49.
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- In 1521, the Edict of Worms outlawed Martin Luther and his followers, following his Papal excommunication in April.
- In 1659, Aurangzeb formally ascended the Mogul throne.
- In 1798, during the Irish Rebellion, the British killed about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara.
- In 1805, Napoleon was crowned king of Italy in Milan cathedral.
- In 1834, the Portuguese Civil War ended with the capitulation of the pretender, Dom Miguel.
- In 1865, the last Confederate resistance of the American Civil War ended when Gen. Kirby Smith surrendered at New Orleans. The Confederates had already signed a surrender on April 9.
- In 1868, Irish nationalist Michael Barrett was hanged for a bomb attack at Clerkenwell, London -- the last public execution in England.
- In 1868, U.S. President Andrew Johnson was finally acquitted of impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
- In 1879, the British and Afghans signed the Treaty of Gandamak giving the British control of the Khyber Pass.
- In 1923, the first Le Mans 24-hour motor race was run.
- In 1940, Operation Dynamo began to evacuate defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk.
- In 1942, Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London, providing for full collaboration during and after World War II.
- In 1948, the Nationalist Party took power in South African elections, beating the United Party by 70 seats to 65.
- In 1966, British Guiana became an independent member of the Commonwealth, changing its name to Guyana.
- In 1971, the Soviet Union's answer to Concorde, the TU-144, made its first appearance in the West at the Paris Air Show.
- In 1979, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen appointed a new coalition government with Mauno Koivisto as prime minister.
- In 1982, in the Falklands war, the British container ship Atlantic Conveyor and destroyer Coventry were both hit, killing 33.
- In 1991, Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected president of Georgia.
- In 1991, an Austrian Lauda-Air Boeing 767 crashed after a stopover in Bangkok, killing 223.
- In 1993, the Pakistan supreme court re-instated Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and parliament after they had been dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
- In 1996, Albania's opposition parties pulled out of the election on polling day because of "terror" and manipulation of the poll by the ruling Democratic Party.
- In 1997, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made an unexpected personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation
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