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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a></b>:  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sorry_Day" title="National Sorry Day">National Sorry Day</a></b> in Australia; First day of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a></b> (Judaism, 2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Georgia)" title="Independence Day (Georgia)">Independence Day</a></b> in Georgia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>) 
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/946" title="946">946</a> – King <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_I" title="Edmund I">Edmund I</a></b> of England was murdered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pucklechurch" title="Pucklechurch">Pucklechurch</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">feast day</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Canterbury" title="Augustine of Canterbury">St Augustine</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a> – American singer <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers" title="Jimmie Rodgers">Jimmie Rodgers</a></b> died at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michelangelo" title="The Michelangelo">Taft Hotel</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>'  <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band">Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</a></b></i>, one of the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a> albums, was released.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Cecil" title="Tropical Storm Cecil">Tropical Storm Cecil</a></b> dissipated over Laos after devastating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_Nam_province" title="Quảng Nam province">Quảng Nam province</a>, Vietnam, and causing the deaths of 751 people.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_de_Goncourt" title="Edmond de Goncourt">Edmond de Goncourt</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1822); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoti_Gogte" title="Jyoti Gogte">Jyoti Gogte</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1956); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufti_Abdul_Razzaq" title="Mufti Abdul Razzaq">Mufti Abdul Razzaq</a></b>   (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2021)</p>