CHICKEN BUCKETS: Today in History: Monday, May 26, 2014

AP Highlight in History:
On May 26, 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.

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On this date in:
1521	Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and his writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.
1805	Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
1868	The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal as the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction.
1896	The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published. The average price of the 11 initial stocks was 40.94
1908	The first major oil strike in the Middle East took place as engineers working for British entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy hit a gusher in Masjid-i-Suleiman in present-day Iran.
1969	Apollo 10 returned to Earth after a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.
1972	President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow.
1977	George H. 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.
1978	The first legal casino in the eastern United States opened in Atlantic City, N.J.
1994	Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic.
1998	The Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island - historic gateway for millions of immigrants - is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
2004	Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2009	President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.
2009	California's Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid.
2011	Congress passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers contained in the Patriot Act to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists.
2011	Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt.