The First Elevator of the Eiffel Tower Opened to the Public

May 26 is the 146nd day of the year (147rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

26 May 1934 date and 2443 Power of Attorney Organization under the law on the construction of the railway construction work was combined.
26 May 2005 has signed a protocol to develop the Izmir Commuter System Development Cooperation, which will reduce the number of 86 minutes between Aliaga-Menderes and 300 million passengers per year.

Events

961 – II. Otto ascended the throne of the German Kingdom.
1538 - Jean Calvin and his followers are exiled from Geneva. The French cleric, the founder of Calvinism, established a strict theocratic rule when he returned to Geneva in 1541. He died as "Dictator of Geneva" on May 18, 1564.
1647 - A woman named Alse Young became the first person in the American colonies to be executed for witchcraft. Young was hanged in Hartford.
1832 – Asian cholera epidemic in Québec: About 6000 people die.
1889 - The first elevator of the Eiffel Tower opened to the public.
1894 - The last Tsar of Russia, II. Nicholas was crowned.
1897 - Bram Stoker's world-famous Dracula The novel was published.
1926 – The law regarding the dismissal of civil servants who did not participate in the National Struggle was accepted.
1938 – Atatürk left Ankara for the last time.
1938 – The Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held its first session.
1946 – Municipal elections were eventful as they were in the form of "Open Vote and Secret Classification". CHP became the first party. The runner-up Democratic Party, on the other hand, brought the issue to court on the grounds that the government was biased in the election and there was no election security, but could not get any results.
1957 – 7,1 people died in the 52 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Abant.
1963 – Iskenderun Journalists Association was founded.
1966 – Denizlispor Professional Football Club was established at the General Assembly meeting held in Denizli with the participation of Çelik Yeşilspor Youth and Pamukkale Youth Clubs.
1968 – Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel said, “Those who want to change the order are insane, anarchists”.
1970 – Soviet Union-built Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic aircraft becomes the first commercial aircraft to exceed Mach 2 speed.
1971 – Poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was arrested.
1971 – Cinematographer Yılmaz Güney was detained.
1972 - The ballistic missile limitation treaty was signed between the USA and the USSR.
1973 – Çetin Altan received the Orhan Kemal Novel Award for his novel "The Great Eye".
1982 – Written by Yılmaz Güney and directed by Şerif Gören Yol Costa Gavras won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Lost (Missing) shared with the movie.
1983 – 12th execution of the 46 September Coup: Abdülaziz Kılıç, who killed the worker Nusret Ateş by hitting his head with a cut on the head and injuring three other workers, was executed on 12 December 1978 in order to steal their money.
1983 – Social Democracy Party (SODEP) founded; Erdal İnönü was elected as the General President.
1992 – Talip Apaydın received the Orhan Kemal Novel Award for his novel “The Villagers”.
1993 – Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses started publishing his book Bright newspaper was collected.
1997 – At the hearing of the Susurluk accident, truck driver Hasan Gökçe was sentenced to pay a fine of 6 million 420 thousand liras and to pay 100 million liras to the family of DYP Şanlıurfa Deputy Sedat Edip Bucak.
1999 – The Eighth Chamber of the Council of State decided to dismiss the headscarved civil servants who do not accept to serve without headscarves, without giving a warning penalty.
2003 – A plane belonging to Ukraine Airlines crashed near Maçka district of Trabzon. On the plane carrying Spanish Peace Corps soldiers, 62 soldiers and 13 crew members were killed.
2006 – The May 6.3 Java Earthquake with a magnitude of 2006 occurred. At least 5749 people were killed, 38.568 injured, and 600.000 people were left homeless in the earthquake.
2008 – Floods started in China, causing 148 deaths.

Births

1264 – Prince Koreyasu, seventh shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (d. 1326)
1478 – VII. Clemens was pope from 19 November 1523 until his death on 25 September 1534 (d. 1534)
1564 – Imam-i Rabbani, Indian Islamic scholar and Sufi leader (d. 1624)
1566 – III. Mehmet, 13th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1603)
1623 – William Petty, English economist, scientist, and philosopher (d. 1687)
1650 - John Churchill, English general^[2] (d. 1722)
1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
1689 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (known for her detailed observations of Ottoman society) (d. 1762)
1863 – Bob Fitzsimmons, New Zealand boxer (d. 1917)
1867 – Mary Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1874 – Henri Farman, English-French pilot and engineer (d. 1958)
1891 – Paul Lukas, American actor (d. 1971)
1895 – Dorothea Lange, American document photographer (d. 1965)
1904 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish poet, writer and thinker (d. 1983)
1907 – John Wayne, American actor and Academy Award winner for Best Actor (d. 1979)
1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player, manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1969)
1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian statesman, politician (d. 1989)
1912 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1914 – Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1919 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (member of Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1920 – Peggy Lee was an American jazz and pop singer, songwriter, composer, and actress (d. 2002)
1921 – Inge Borkh, German soprano and opera singer (d. 2018)
1923 – James King Arness, American western actor (d. 2011)
1925 – Alec McCowen, English stage, film and television actor, voice actor (d. 2017)
1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1928 – Jack Kevorkian, Armenian-American pathologist, painter, composer, instrumentalist (d. 2011)
1931 – Tarık Dursun K., Turkish writer and publisher (d. 2015)
1940 – Levon Helm, American rock musician (d. 2012)
1943 – Maria do Céu Guerra, Portuguese actress
1944 – Can Gürzap, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actor, writer and trainer
1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist, composer and producer (d. 1993)
1948 - Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
1949 – Jeremy Corbyn, British politician
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and astrophysicist (d. 2012)
1954 – Alan Hollinghurst, English writer
1954 – Wolfgang Sidka, German former football player and manager
1954 – Lisbeth Zwerger, Austrian children's book illustrator
1957 – Uğur Yücel, Turkish actor, director and screenwriter
1962 – English singer under the stage name Black (d. 2016)
1964 – Ilkay Akkaya, Turkish musician
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer, songwriter, producer, and arranger
1964 – Nazlı Tosunoğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1967 – Kristen Pfaff, American bass player (d. 1994)
1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, award-winning Spanish director and screenwriter
1968 – Frederik, heir to the Danish throne
1971 – Matt Stone, American actor
1973 – Magdalena Kožená, Czech mezzo-soprano
1975 – Suat Suna, Turkish pop singer and composer
1977 – Yonca Türkman, Turkish theater and TV actress (d. 2022)
1977 – Luca Toni, Italian football player
1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
1981 – Anthony Ervin, American swimmer
1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1982 – Monique Alexander, American porn star and nude model
1982 – Hasan Kabze, Turkish football player^[3]
1982 – Maya Petrova Russian handball player
1983 – Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch former football player
1986 – Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Spanish-French actress
1987 – Olcay Şahan is a Turkish former national football player.
1988 – Juan Cuadrado, Colombian national football player
1988 – Dani Samuels, Australian athlete
1989 – Tomáš Pekhart, Czech international football player
1991 Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress
1991 – Ah Young, a South Korean singer and actress
1992 – Jenni Vähämaa, Finnish figure skater

Deaths

946 – Edmund I, King of England from 939 until his death (b. 921)
1421 – Celebi Mehmet, 5th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1389)
1512 – II. Bayezid, 8th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1447)
1552 – Sebastian Münster, German cartographer, cosmographer and scholar (b. 1488)
1703 – Samuel Pepys, English writer (b. 1633)
1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Baltic German marshal and Minister of War of the Russian Empire (b. 1761)
1840 – Sydney Smith, British naval officer (b. 1764)
1864 – Charles Sealsfield, American journalist (b. 1793)
1877 – Richard Hawes, American politician (b. 1797)
1883 – Abdulkadir Algeria, Algerian people's leader, clergyman, and soldier (b. 1808)
1895 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Turkish statesman and scientist, historian, lawyer and poet (b. 1822)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, founder of the Ahmadi religious movement (b. 1835)
1917 – Boris Drangov, Bulgarian Colonel and war pedagogue (b. 1872)
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American country, blues, and folk singer (b. 1897)
1943 – Edsel Ford was president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 to 1943 (b. 1893)
1944 – Christian Wirth, senior German police and SS officer (b. 1885)
1948 – Theodor Morell, German physician (b. 1886)
1952 – Emilie Flöge, Austrian fashion designer and businessman (b. 1874)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian Formula 1 driver born in Milan (b. 1918)
1969 – Allan Lockheed, American aircraft designer (b. 1889)
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German existentialist philosopher (b. 1889)
1982 – Semra Ertan, Turkish immigrant worker and writer against xenophobia (b. 1956)
1990 – Emil Konopinski, American nuclear scientist (b. 1911)
1991 – İzzettin Ökte, Turkish composer and tanbur player (b. 1910)
1995 – Doğan Kasaroğlu, Turkish journalist, politician and TRT General Manager (b. 1933)
1997 – Manfred von Ardenne, German research and application physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
2001 – Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (b. 1928)
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 – Sangoulé Lamizana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) soldier and politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Ruth Laredo, American female classical pianist (b. 1937)
2008 – Sydney Pollack, American director, producer, actress, and Academy Award winner for Best Director (b. 1934)
2012 – Orhan Boran, Turkish radio and television presenter and actor (b. 1928)
2013 – Jack Vance, American author (b. 1916)
2015 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2016 – Dumitru Teoderescu, Romanian football director (b. 1939)
2017 – Toni Bertorelli, Italian actress (b. 1948)
2017 – Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer and cosmetologist (b. 1943)
2017 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, American politician (b. 1928)
2018 – Alan Bean, American naval officer and aviator, aircraft engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 – Pierre Bellemere, French writer, novelist, radio broadcaster, television presenter, television producer, director and actor (b. 1929)
2018 – Ted Dabney, American electronics engineer (b. 1937)
2019 – Abdullatif ez Zein, Lebanese politician (b. 1932)
2019 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish television and film actor and theater actor (b. 1927)
2019 – Stephen Thorne, English actor (b. 1935)
2019 – Prem Tinsulanonda, retired Thai military officer (b. 1920)
2020 – Michael Athans, Greek-American professor (b. 1937)
2020 – Samvel Gasparov, Russian film director and short story writer (b. 1938)
2020 – Richard Herd, American actor (b. 1932)
2020 – Irmgard Hermann, German actress and assistant director (b. 1942)
2020 – İsmail Hakkı Karadayı, Turkish general and 22nd Chief of General Staff (b. 1932)
2020 – Vladimir Lopuhin, Russian economist and politician (b. 1952)
2020 – Christian Mbulu, English football player (b. 1996)
2021 – Abdul Wahab Al-Dailami, Yemeni politician (b. 1938)
2021 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian former international football player (b. 1939)
2021 – Arturor de Jesús Correa Toro, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1941)
2021 – Heidi Ferrer, American screenwriter and actress (b. 1970)
2021 – Ben Kruger, South African actor and writer (b. 1957)
2021 – Kay Lahusen, American photojournalist (b. 1930)
2021 – Sureni Senarath, Sri Lankan actress of theatre, film and television (b. 1959)
2022 – Ray Liotta, American actor and voice actor (b. 1954)
2022 – Ciriaco de Mita, Italian politician (b. 1928)
2022 – José Antolín Toledano, Spanish industrialist and businessman (b. 1936)
2022 – Andy Fletcher, English musician (b. 1961)
2022 – Shin Il-ryong, South Korean actor and entrepreneur (b. 1948)
2022 – Enyu Todorov, Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1943)
2022 – Alan White, English musician (b. 1949)

Holidays and special occasions

Mother's Day (Poland)