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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Mother's Day in Poland | refimprove section |
| Independence DayinGuyana (1966) | refimprove sections |
| 451 – Armenian rebels were defeated by forces of the Sassanid Empire on the Avarayr PlaininVaspurakan, but the loss played a major factor in their being granted religious freedom 33 years later. | refimprove section |
| 1637 – Pequot War: Allied Puritan and Mohegan forces attackedafortified Pequot village in the Connecticut Colony, killing between 400 and 700 people. | Too much uncited |
| 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy at the Milan Cathedral with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. | refimprove section |
| 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal HouseofBaden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. | refimprove |
| 1857 – American slave Dred Scott, who had previously unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, was emancipated by Henry Taylor Blow, his original owner. | external links |
| 1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, at that time representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1897 – Dracula, Irish author Bram Stoker's most famous novel, was first published. | lots of CN tags in one section (equivalent to refimprove section) |
| 1903 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, was founded. | No article structure |
| 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – Henry Ford watched as the 15 millionth Model T roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. | refimprove section |
| 1972 – U.S. president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. | refimprove |
| 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. | multiple issues |
| 1991 – Shortly after leaving Bangkok, an engine thrust reverseronLauda Air Flight 004 deployed without being commanded, causing the aircraft to break apart and killing all 223 people on board. | Too much uncited |
| 2008 – Severe flooding began in eastern and southern China that ultimately caused 148 deaths and forced the evacuation of 1.3 million people. | self-contradictory |
| Mamo Wolde |d|2002 | citations needed |
| Emir Abdelkader |d|1883| | Death and burial require more sourcing |
May 26: National Sorry Day in Australia; Independence Day in Georgia (1918), Lag BaOmer (Judaism, 2024)
