Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 26

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 * 946 – King Edmund I of England was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine.
 * 1328 – English friar William of Ockham, who popularised the methodological principle known as Occam's razor, secretly left Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
 * 1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history occurred at a church in Grue, killing at least 113 people.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war.
 * 1868 – The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson adjourned after the second and third articles of impeachment did not obtain enough votes from the U.S. Senate to convict.
 * 1888 – The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.
 * 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, an account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Plymouth Colony, to the state of Massachusetts.
 * 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge in London opened, crossing the River Thames between Vauxhall and Westminster.
 * 1932 – Donoghue v Stevenson is decided, ultimately establishing the foundation for negligence in common law jurisdictions worldwide.
 * 1933 – American singer Jimmie Rodgers (pictured) died at the Taft Hotel in New York City.
 * 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee was established to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities by people or organizations in the U.S. suspected of having communist or fascist ties.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Allies began a mass evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
 * 1967 – The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the first progressive rock albums, was released.
 * 1989 – Tropical Storm Cecil dissipated over Laos after devastating Quảng Nam province, Vietnam, and causing the deaths of 751 people.
 * Born/died: | Bede |d|735| Louis I of Naples |d|1362| John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough |b|1650| Edmond de Goncourt |b|1822| Adolfo de la Huerta |b|1881| Mamie Smith |b|1891| Imi Lichtenfeld |b|1910| Miles Davis |b|1926|Horatio Bottomley |d|1933|  Paul E. Patton |b|1937|  Jyoti Gogte |b|1956| Lauryn Hill |b|1975| Mufti Abdul Razzaq  |d|2021