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May 26
- 1667 - Birth of Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1669 - Birth of Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
- 1883 - Death of Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
- 1902 - Death of Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
- 1904 - Death of Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
- 1922 - Death of Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist (b. 1838)
- 1951 - Birth of Sally Ride, American astronaut
- 1951 - Death of Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
- 1969 - Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
- 1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1976 - Death of Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1999 - Death of Waldo Semon, American chemist and inventor (b. 1898)
- 2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2004 - Death of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
