This Day In History for May 26

1940 - the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, during World War Two began.

1521 - Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.

1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.

1865 - arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.

1868 - the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on all remaining charges.

1913 - Actors' Equity Association was organized.

1960 - UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the US embassy in Moscow.

1969 - the "Apollo Ten" astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.

1981 - 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS "Nimitz" off Florida.

1991 - a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard.

1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. (The marriage ended, however, in 1996.)