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Tuesday May 26, 2009
This is the 146th day of the year, with 219 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Star Wars
The first Star Wars movie was released in 1977. The studio was unhappy
with Star Wars as a title after negative market testing. A competition was held
during shooting for cast and crew to come up with a better one, but nothing
stuck. The film was initially budgeted at $8 million but production problems
forced the studio to contribute an additional $3 million. Within three weeks of
the film's release, 20th Century Fox's stock price doubled to a record high.
Its success spawned a host of other science fiction films using the same newly
developed computer-based special-effects technologies that Star Wars had used
so effectively. The famous opening title sequence of the Star Wars series was
first used in a series called Phantom Creeps (1939). George Lucas is said to
have based the character of Hans Solo (Harrison Ford) on his friend, director
Francis Ford Coppola.
Holidays
Georgia: Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Guyana: Independence Day.
2005 - Eddie Albert (born Edward Albert Heimberger), American actor.
Events
1521 - Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his
religious beliefs and writings.
1637 - The Pequot massacres began as part of the Pequot War; Puritan and
Mohegan forces slaughtered many people in Connecticut villages.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed an act establishing the Montana
Territory.
1865 - The last surrender of Confederate troops (those west of the
Mississippi) took place at Shreveport, Louisiana, at the end of the Civil War.
1868 - President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial in Congress ended
with his being acquitted on all charges.
1896 - Nicholas II, the last czar, was crowned ruler of Russia.
1913 - The Actors' Equity Association was organized.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill limiting immigration
into the U.S. and entirely excluding the Japanese.
1946 - A patent was filed in the United States for the H-bomb.
1954 - The Egyptian pharaoh Cheops's funeral ship was found.
1977 - George H. Willig scaled the outside of the South Tower of New
York's World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story
building.
1977 - The movie "Star Wars" debuted.
1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the
Dominican Republic.
2004 - In state court, Oklahoma bombing accomplice Terry Nichols was
found guilty of 161 counts of first-degree murder. He had been already
convicted in federal court.
Births
1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, short-story
writer.
1859 - A. E. Housman, English poet.
1886 - Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), American singer, actor.
1907 - John Wayne (Marion Morrison), American Academy Award-winning actor.
1908 - Robert Morley, Oscar-nominated British actor.
1920 - Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom), American singer, actress.
1948 - Stevie Nicks (born Stephanie Lynn Nicks), American singer and
songwriter.
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait (born Robert Francis Goldthwait), American
comedian.
Deaths
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English diarist.
1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon.
2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin, and the great-grandson of
Édouard Michelin (1859-1940), a co-founder of the company.
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