May 26th:
May 26, 1864–President Lincoln signed an enabling act creating the Territory of Montana. Twenty-five years later, on November 8, 1889, Montana became the forty-first state.
Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2009. There are 219 days left in the year.
On May 26, 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on the remaining charges.
In 1908, the first major oil strike in the Middle East occurred in Masjid-i-Suleiman, Persia (present-day Iran).