On May 26, 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan.
In 1864 the Montana Territory was organized.
In 1865 arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
In 1868 the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on all remaining charges.
In 1940 the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
In 1969 the Apollo 10 astronauts returned after a successful eight-day rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
In 1977 George 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.
In 1978 the first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City.
In 1992 the White House announced that the Coast Guard was returning a group of Haitian refugees picked up at sea to their homeland under a new presidential executive order.
In 1994 President Bill Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced his administration would no longer link China’s trade status with its human-rights record. )
In 1995, in the tobacco industry’s largest recall ever, Philip Morris U.S.A. halted sales of several cigarette brands, including some versions of top-selling Marlboro, because some filters were contaminated.
In 1998 the Supreme Court made it far more difficult for police to be sued by people hurt during high-speed chases.
In 1999 House Republicans pushed through legislation that would put new obstacles in the way of spending government surpluses that came from Social Security taxes.
In 2001 Republicans and moderate Democrats drove a sweeping $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut through Congress.
In 2003 an airplane carrying Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan crashed in Turkey, killing all 75 people aboard.
In 2004, nearly a decade after the Oklahoma City bombing, Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the attack. (Nichols later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)
