📜 This Day in History
May 26
946King Edmund I of England was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine.- 1865American Civil War: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Army force remaining in the war.
- 1897The 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.
- 1933American singer Jimmie Rodgers died at the Taft Hotel in New York City.
- 1989Tropical Storm Cecil dissipated over Laos after devastating Quảng Nam province, Vietnam, and causing the deaths of 751 people.
- 2025A car rammed into a crowd on Water Street, Liverpool, injuring 65 people.
