Talk:May 26

May 26: Memorial Day in the United States (2008); Independence Day in Guyana and Georgia; Mother's Day in Poland; National Sorry Day in Australia

• 1828 – Kaspar Hauser (pictured), a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index.
• 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
• 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
• 1986 – The European Community adopted the Flag of Europe, a flag previously adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955.

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