Saturday, May 26, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

MAY 26

1940:Operation Dynamo begins as hundreds of civilian, commercial and military boats rescue Allied soldiers trapped in Nazi-occupied northern France. Roughly 330,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers would be transported from Dunkirk, France, to safety in England by June 4.

1647: Alse Young is the first person executed for a conviction of witchcraft in America, in Windsor, Conn.

1927: Henry Ford watches as the last Ford Model T rolls off of the assembly line in Highland Park, Mich., after 15 million of the popular cars had been produced over 19 years.

1879:Treaty of Gandamak signed by Great Britain and Russia. This treaty established an independent Afghan state.

1805:Lewis & Clark, with their companion Sacajawea, first see the Rocky Mountains.

1977 "The human fly" daredevil George Willig climbs straight up the World Trade Center
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