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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: National Blueberry Cheesecake Day: -- A day dedicated to the blueberry cheesecake, one of the most popular desserts in the U.S. Although originating in ancient Greece, cheesecakes have today spread to the far corners of the world and each region has its own varieties of cheesecakes. One such very popular variety is the blueberry cheesecake. Cheesecake is a rich dessert cake made with cream and soft cheese on a graham cracker, cookie, or pastry crust. Often, it is topped with a fruit compote or puree. Every year on May 26, people all around the U.S. celebrate National Blueberry Cheesecake Day. Legend has it that blueberry cheesecakes were fed to the athletes at the Olympic Games in Greece. It is a historical dessert that has been carried on through centuries without losing popularity. While cheesecakes can be traced back to ancient Greece, the cheesecakes that people eat now are a more recent innovation. People have come up with different kinds of interesting flavors for cheesecakes but May 26 is the celebration of the classic blueberry cheesecake. As cheesecakes spread to different countries, more ingredients were added and different varieties began popping up. While in America, cream cheese is the primary ingredient for cheesecakes, Italians prefer to use ricotta. On the other hand, Germany and Poland use quark, a special kind of curd cheese. As cheesecakes became localized with time, bakers thought of newer innovations for it. One of the most popular innovations was the addition of fruit to cheesecakes and perhaps the best of them all was the sweet and enticing blueberries! Blueberry cheesecakes, too, come in a number of varieties. Some of the most unique blueberry cheesecakes include blueberry mint cheesecakes, chocolate blueberry cheesecakes, and kombucha blueberry cheesecakes! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-radio-crime-and-detective-megaset-3-dual-layer-mp3-dv33.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: National Cherry Dessert Day: -- A sweet tooth's holiday that celebrates cherries, the fruit that seem to go perfectly well with almost anything! From cherry cobblers to cherry cheesecakes, the versatility of this simple fruit is endless. That trait, and of course its amazing taste, and health benefits are the things we celebrate on National Cherry Day. Cherries can be wild or tame, from bush or tree, and give us more vitamins and minerals than we can count. Today is specifically set aside every year to pay homage to cherry desserts, leaving us with insatiable cravings and inspiring ideas. There are different types and even colors of cherries that have been identified throughout history. Some of them include true cherries, bird cherries or cherry laurels, and bush cherries, with the term 'wild cherries' referring to cherries growing outside cultivation. The word cherry was coined from the Old Nothern French word 'cherise,' which was derived from the Latin word 'cerasum' to refer to the ancient Greek region of Kerasous, which is said to be the first place in Europe cherries were exported to. In the US, cherries arrived first in Brooklyn, New York. Colonists in Massachusetts planted the first sour cherry, which is still a people's favorite. Queen Elizabeth I is given credit for making the first cherry pie in the 1500s with the start of fruit pies and tarts. Since then, a variety of cherry-flavored desserts have made their way into the scene. Cherry can be used as a filling like in cherry pie and cobbler, as part of the flavoring like cherry cheesecake, or even as a topping like cherry tarts or biscuits. The origins of National Cherry Dessert Day are still widely unknown, but that does not stop us from celebrating this sweet holiday! It is observed annually on May 26, after National Cherry Month, and before Cherry Day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/those-oldies-but-goodies-rock-amp-roll-doo-wop-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: World Lindy Hop Day: -- Today we're getting our dance shoes ready to hit the floor! There isn't a better way to create some positive vibes than by dancing, especially if you're doing it in the right environment with the perfect music. That is what Lindy Hop is all about. A dancing style that has endured time by bringing people together and helping spread joy. The is an American dance style that made its first appearance in the late 1920s with the popularisation of big bands. It crosses over dance style traditions from Europe like turns and embracing holds with body postures from Africa. Its geographical origin can also be traced back to Harlem, New York City. The Lindy is a fusion of many dances that preceded it, or were popular during its development, but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston. It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family. It s often synonymous with the jitterbug dance, but the jitterbug might include elements of the jive, east coast swing, collegiate shag, charleston, balboa and other swing dances. The name Lindy refers to its often aerobatic elements, and comes from a trend that occurred after Charles Lindbergh's successful flight across the Atlantic in 1927. Many chefs, musicians, and even business owners paid tribute to the aviator by naming the creations and their establishments after this brave American. The dance evolved together with the music it's danced to. The Lindy Hop reached mainstream popularity during the 1930s with dance groups like the Harlem Congaroos and Hot Chocolate performing at exhibitions. The movie "Hellzapoppin'" also featured Lindy Hop dancers. Lindy Hop enjoyed a revival since the mid 1980s, when Swing Legend Frankie "musclehead" Manning, an influential choreographer and performer of the era, was popularized it. World Lindy Hop Day was established to honor his contributions. Today, Lindy Hop communities can be found in many cities around the world. One of the most famous examples is the town of Herrang in Sweden, home of the Herrang Dance Camp, a famous meet up for Lindy Hop enthusiasts. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hellzapoppin39-dvd-olsen-and-johnson-vaudeville-lindyhoppi39.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: World Redhead Day: -- A day set aside to celebrate everyone who has natural red hair. If you have red hair, you are considered a part of a unique group because less than 2% of the world's population is born with naturally red hair. Red hair is more common and appears with greater frequency (between 2% and 6%) among those of Northern European descent. Red hair gets its color from high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. Redheads are those whose hair has a variety of red hues - from a deep burgundy or bright copper, or auburn, to burnt orange or red-orange to strawberry blond. Red hair is usually associated with fair skin color, lighter eye color, freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light. In ancient Asian civilizations (dating back to the second millennium B.C.), people were said to have red and auburn hair. There are several accounts of redheads in Greek literature. The ancient people Budini, Sarmatians, and Thracians were reported by Greek authors to be blue-eyed and red-haired. Throughout history, red hair is believed to be good for women, but not for men. Red hair has been associated with evil, vampires, and witches; outsiders were usually portrayed sporting red hair because red hair was not very common. Some historians also attribute this negativity towards red hair to the belief that Judas Iscariot (the disciple who betrayed Jesus) had red hair. Red hair is also associated with someone with a temper. In the 16th and 17th centuries, women who had red hair were stigmatized as witches. An estimated 45,000 red-haired women suspected of being witches were burned during the witch trials. Although there have been instances of discrimination and indifference towards redheads, acceptance, and celebration have become the norm. Redhead festivals take place across the globe from the Netherlands to Israel. There is also a magazine called "MC1R" exclusively for redheads. ("MC1R" stands for "melanocortin-1 receptor," a protein-coding gene.) On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-subterraneans-dvd-1960-leslie-caron-george-pep1960.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: World Dracula Day: -- May 26, 1897: First Publications: Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula is first published, one of the most famous pieces of English literature, many of whose characters have entered popular culture as archetypal versions of their characters, such as Count Dracula as the quintessential vampire, and Abraham Van Helsing as an iconic vampire hunter. World Dracula Day is celebrated every year on May 26 in commemoration of its first publication. It is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters), with the narrative related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. Dracula was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Bathory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker's notes mention neither figure. He found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant devil in Romanian. Following its publication, Dracula was positively received by reviewers who pointed to its effective use of horror. In contrast, reviewers who wrote negatively of the novel regarded it as excessively frightening. Comparisons to other works of Gothic fiction were common, including its structural similarity to Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White (1859). In the past century, Dracula has been situated as a piece of Gothic fiction. Modern scholars explore the novel within its historical context-the Victorian era-and discuss its depiction of gender roles, sexuality, and race. The novel, which is in the public domain, has been adapted for film over 30 times, and its characters have made numerous appearances in virtually all media. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/in-search-of-dracula-1975-documentary-starring-christopher1975.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26: Sally Ride Day: -- May 26, 1951: #BOTD: #HBD! Sally Ride, American pilot, PhD, astronaut, physicist and beauty, youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, the only known LGBT person, Astronaut or Cosmonaut, to travel in space at age 32 (d. July 23, 2012) is #born Sally Kristen Ride in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Sally Ride Day is a special appreciation holiday that is held on May 26 every year in commemoration of her birthday. Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in physics in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1978 for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. She was selected as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of NASA astronauts to include women. After completing her training in 1979, she served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third Space Shuttle flights, and helped develop the Space Shuttle's robotic arm. In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1). Ride operated the robotic arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1. Her second space flight was the STS-41-G mission in 1984, also on board Challenger. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. She left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the loss of Challenger and of Columbia, the only person to participate in both. Having been married to astronaut Steven Hawley during her spaceflight years and in a private, long-term relationship with former Women's Tennis Association player Tam O'Shaughnessy, she is the first astronaut known to have been LGBT. She died of pancreatic cancer at her home in La Jolla, California at the age of 61. Following cremation, her ashes were interred next to those of her father at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica. Her papers are in the National Air and Space Museum Archives of the Smithsonian Institution. Ride's obituary publicly revealed for the first time that O'Shaughnessy had been her partner of 27 years. This made Ride the first known LGBT astronaut. The relationship was confirmed by Ride's sister Bear, who said Ride chose to keep her personal life private, including her sickness and treatments. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/we-remember-the-space-shuttle-pioneers-198119811986.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1830: The United States: The History Of The United States: Native Americans: The History Of Native Americans: Forced Migrations Of Native Americans In The United States: The Indian Removal Act: -- The United States Congress passes The Indian Removal Act, which is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The act has been referred to as a genocide. The Act was signed by Jackson and it was enforced under his administration and that of Martin Van Buren. The act enjoyed strong support from the non-Indian peoples of the South, but there was a large amount of resistance from the Indian tribes, the Whig Party, and whites in the northeast, especially New England. The Cherokee worked together as an independent nation to stop this relocation. However, the Cherokee were unsuccessful in their attempt to keep their land and were eventually forcibly removed by the United States government in a march to the west that later became known as the Trail of Tears, a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples that included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Ponca nations. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/native-north-american-indian-history-documentaries-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1857: Origins Of The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): Events Leading To The American Civil War: Slavery: Slavery In The United States: Landmark Court Decisions In The United States: Landmark Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) Decisions: Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Manumission Of Dred Scott: -- Dred Scott (c. 1799 - September 17, 1858), enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Case", is manumitted (emancipated) by the Blow family, his original owners. Scott's freedom suit before the state courts was backed financially by the children of Peter Blow, the original owner of Dred Scott, as his children had turned against slavery in the decade since they sold Scott. Henry Taylor Blow became a Republican Congressman after the Civil War, Charlotte Taylor Blow married the son of an abolitionist newspaper editor, and Martha Ella Blow married Charles D. Drake, one of Scott's lawyers who became a Republican Senator. Members of the Blow family signed as security for Scott's legal fees and secured the services of local lawyers. While the case was pending, Scott was leased out by the St. Louis County sheriff, who held the payments in escrow. In 1851, Scott was leased by Charles Edmund LaBeaume, whose sister had married into the Blow family. Scott worked as a janitor at LaBeaume's law office, which was shared with Roswell Field. Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal. The United States Supreme Court decided 7-2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Moreover, Scott's temporary residence outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation under the Missouri Compromise, which the court ruled unconstitutional as it would "improperly deprive Scott's owner of his legal property". While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused public outrage, deepened sectional tensions between the northern and southern U.S. states, and hastened the eventual explosion of their differences into the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments - the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments - nullified the decision. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1868: Federal Impeachments In The United States: The Reconstruction Era (Reconstruction): The Impeachment Of Andrew Johnson: -- United States President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial ends with his acquittal by one vote after a ten-day recess was called by the United States Senate before they attempted to convict him on additional articles from the ones that they failed to impeach him on when they voted on a different article of impeachment on May 16. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson occurred in 1868, when the United States House Of Representatives resolved to impeach President Andrew Johnson, adopting eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors," in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. The House's primary charge against Johnson was violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in March 1867, over the president's veto. Specifically, he had removed from office Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War - whom the Act was largely designed to protect - and attempted to replace him with Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas (Earlier, while Congress was not in session, Johnson had suspended Stanton and appointed General Ulysses S. Grant as secretary of war ad interim). The House approved the articles of impeachment on March 2-3, 1868, and forwarded them to the Senate. The trial in the Senate began three days later, with Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase presiding. On May 16, the Senate failed to convict Johnson on one of the articles, with the 35-19 vote in favor of conviction falling short of the necessary two-thirds majority by a single vote. A ten-day recess was called before attempting to convict him on additional articles. The delay did not change the outcome, however, as on May 26, it failed to convict the President on two articles, both by the same margin; after which the trial was adjourned. This was the first impeachment of a President since creation of the office in 1789. The culmination of a lengthy political battle between Johnson, a lifelong Democrat and the Republican majority in Congress over how best to deal with the defeated Southern states following the conclusion of the American Civil War, the impeachment, and the subsequent trial (and acquittal) of Johnson were among the most dramatic events in the political life of the nation during the Reconstruction Era. Together, they have gained a historical reputation as an act of political expedience, rather than necessity, which was based on Johnson's defiance of an unconstitutional piece of legislation, and which was conducted with little regard for the will of a general public which, despite the unpopularity of Johnson, opposed the impeachment. Johnson is one of only three presidents against whom articles of impeachment have been reported to the full House for consideration. In 1974, during the Watergate scandal, the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, who resigned from office, rather than face certain impeachment and the prospect of being convicted at trial and removed from office. In 1999, Bill Clinton was impeached; He, like Johnson, was acquitted from all charges following a Senate trial. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/long-shadows-dvd-legacy-of-the-american-civil-war.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26 (or 27), 1877: #BOTD: #HBD! Isadora Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe (d. September 14, 1927) is #born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco and raised in California. She lived and danced in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50 when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France. She is buried at The Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise in Paris, France. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Al Jolson, American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor (d. October 23, 1950) is #born Asa Yoelson in the Jewish village of Srednike, now known as Seredzius, near Kaunas in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. One of the premier American vaudeville entertainers of his day, he appeared in the first motion picture with full sound, The Jazz Singer, in 1927. At the peak of his career, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer." His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized a large number of songs. Numerous well-known singers were influenced by his music, including Bing Crosby, George Burns, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, David Bowie and others. Dylan once referred to him as "somebody whose life I can feel.". In the 1920s, Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer. Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), he later starred in a series of successful musical films throughout the 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946), for which Larry Parks played Jolson, with the singer dubbing for Parks. The formula was repeated in a sequel, Jolson Sings Again (1949). In 1950, he again became the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War, performing 42 shows in 16 days. Al Jolson died of a massive heart attack while playing cards in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel at 335 Powell Street in San Francisco, California, aged 64, just weeks after returning to the U.S. from becaming the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War, a death partly owing to the physical exertion of performing 42 shows in 16 days. His last words were said to be "Oh ... oh, I'm going." After his wife received the news of his death by phone, she went into shock, and required family members to stay with her. At the funeral, police estimated that upwards of 20,000 people showed up, despite the threat of rain. It became one of the biggest funerals in show business history. Celebrities paid tribute: Bob Hope, speaking from Korea via shortwave radio, said the world had lost "not only a great entertainer, but also a great citizen". Larry Parks said that the world had "lost not only its greatest entertainer, but a great American as well. He was a casualty of the [Korean] war." He is buried in Hillside Memorial Park cemetery in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California. Defense Secretary George Marshall posthumously awarded him The Medal Of Merit. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "Jolson was to jazz, blues, and ragtime what Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll." Being the first popular singer to make a spectacular event out of singing a song, he became a rock star before the dawn of rock music. His specialty was performing on stage runways extending out into the audience. He would run up and down the runway, and across the stage, "teasing, cajoling, and thrilling the audience", often stopping to sing to individual members; all the while the "perspiration would be pouring from his face, and the entire audience would get caught up in the ecstasy of his performance". According to music historian Larry Stempel, "No one had heard anything quite like it before on Broadway." Author Stephen Banfield agreed, writing that Jolson's style was "arguably the single most important factor in defining the modern musical". Jolson has been called "the king of blackface"., a theatrical convention since the mid-19th century. With his unique and dynamic style of singing black music, such as jazz and blues, he was became widely successful by extracting African American music and popularizing it for white American audiences who were otherwise not receptive to the originators. Alongside his promotion and perpetuation of anti-black stereotypes, his work was sometimes well-regarded among black publications and he has sometimes been credited for fighting against black discrimination on Broadway, as early as 1911. In an essay written in the 21st century Tim Gioia of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia remarks, "If blackface has its shameful poster boy, it is Al Jolson", showcasing Jolson's complex legacy in American society. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! George Formby, English singer, songwriter, comedian and actor who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s (d. March 6, 1961) is #born George Hoy Booth at 3 Westminster Street, Wigan, Lancashire. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. George Formby, OBE was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions - he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless (lacking sense or initiative; foolish) Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process. During the Second World War Formby worked extensively for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), and entertained civilians and troops, and by 1946 it was estimated that he had performed in front of three million service personnel. After the war his career declined, although he toured the Commonwealth, and continued to appear in variety and pantomime. His last television appearance was in December 1960, two weeks before the death of Beryl. He surprised people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher, Pat Howson, seven weeks after Beryl's funeral, but Formby died in Preston three weeks later, at the age of 56; he was buried in Warrington, alongside his father. Formby's biographer, Jeffrey Richards, considers that the actor "had been able to embody simultaneously Lancashire, the working classes, the people, and the nation". Formby was considered Britain's first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians-particularly Charlie Drake and Norman Wisdom-and, culturally, on entertainers such as the Beatles, who referred to him in their music (their penultimate song, "Free as a Bird", ends with a slight coda including a strummed ukulele by Harrison and the voice of John Lennon played backwards, saying "Turned out nice again", the name of Formby's 1941 comedy film.). Since his death Formby has been the subject of five biographies, two television specials and two works of public sculpture. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/london-the-first-defiant-city-dvd-cities-at-war-wwii-britainhtm.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1907: #BOTD: #HBD! John Wayne, American actor, singer, director, filmmaker and producer, nicknamed Duke or Duke Wayne, among the top box office draws for three decades, Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969) (d. June 11, 1979) is #born Marion Robert Morrison at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local paper, Winterset Madisonian, reported on page 4 of the edition of May 30, 1907, that Wayne weighed 13 lb at birth. Wayne claimed his middle name was soon changed from Robert to Michael when his parents decided to name their next son Robert, but extensive research has found no such legal change, although it might have been changed informally or the documention may have been lost. Wayne's legal name apparently remained Marion Robert Morrison his entire life although to this day his original name is almost always referred to as Marion Michael Morrison. Wayne grew up in Southern California. He was president of Glendale High class of 1925. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to the University of Southern California as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous B movies throughout the 1930s, most of them in the Western genre. Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 motion pictures altogether, including the dozens with his name above the title produced before 1939. Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in True Grit (1969). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959) with Dean Martin, and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979. John Wayne died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 72. He is buried at Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery at Corona del Mar, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/three-musketeers-1933-dvd-12-part-movie-serial-john193312.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, composer, musician, drummer, inventor of several musical instruments, theoretician and poet (d. September 8, 1999) is #born Louis Thomas Hardin in Marysville, Kansas. He was widely recognized as "the Viking of 6th Avenue" by thousands of passersby and residents who were not aware of his musical career. On July 4, 1932, the 16-year-old Hardin found an object in a field which he did not realise was a dynamite cap. While he was handling it the explosive detonated in his face and permanently blinded him. In 1943, Hardin moved to New York, where he met noted classical music luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein and Arturo Toscanini, as well as jazz performer-composers such as Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman, whose upbeat tempos and often humorous compositions would influence Hardin's later work. Moondog won a 1954 case in the New York State Supreme Court against disc jockey Alan Freed, who had branded his radio show, "The Moondog Rock and Roll Matinee", around the name "Moondog", using "Moondog's Symphony" (the first record that Moondog ever cut) as his "calling card". Moondog believed he would not have won the case had it not been for the help of musicians such as Benny Goodman and Arturo Toscanini, who testified that he was a serious composer. Freed had to apologize and stop using the nickname "Moondog" on air, on the basis that Hardin was known by the name long before Freed began using it. Hardin lived in New York City from the late 1940s until 1972, and during this time he could often be found on 6th Avenue, between 52nd and 55th Streets, wearing a cloak and a horned helmet sometimes busking or selling music, but often just standing silently on the sidewalk. Moondog also invented several musical instruments, including a small triangular-shaped harp known as the "oo", another which he named the "ooo-ya-tsu", and a triangular stringed instrument played with a bow that he called the "hus" (after the Norwegian, "hus", meaning "house"). Perhaps his best known creation is the "trimba", a triangular percussion instrument that the composer invented in the late 1940s. The original Trimba is still played today by Moondog's friend Stefan Lakatos, a Swedish percussionist, to whom Moondog also explained the methods for building such an instrument. Along with his passion for Nordic culture, Moondog had an idealised view of Germany ("The Holy Land with the Holy River" - the Rhine), where he settled in 1974. Moondog revisited the United States briefly in 1989, for a tribute at the New Music America Festival in Brooklyn, in which festival director Yale Evelev asked him to conduct the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, stimulating a renewed interest in his music. Eventually, a young German student named Ilona Goebel (later known as Ilona Sommer) helped Moondog set up the primary holding company for his artistic endeavorsand hosted him, first in Oer-Erkenschwick, and later on in Munster in Westphalia. Moondog lived with Sommer's family and they spent time together in Munster. During that period Moondog created hundreds of compositions which were transferred from Braille to sheet music by Sommer. Moondog spent the remainder of his life in Germany. Moondog died in Munster, Germany from heart failure, aged 83. He is buried at the Central Cemetery Munster. His tomb was designed by the artist Ernst Fuchs after his death mask. Moondog recorded many albums, and toured both in the U.S. and in Europe-France, Germany and Sweden. Moondog's music from the 1940s and 1950s is said to have been a strong influence on many early minimalist composers. Philip Glass has written that he and Steve Reich took Moondog's work "very seriously and understood and appreciated it much more than what we were exposed to at Juilliard". In July 1956 the British jazz composer and musician Kenny Graham recorded the album "Moondog and Suncat Suites" with a thirteen-piece band featuring such notable performers as Stan Tracey and Phil Seamen. "Moondog" featured Graham's arrangements of ten Moondog compositions, whereas "Suncat Suite" consisted of a sequence of six of Graham's own compositions inspired by Moondog. HMV issued the original vinyl album in 1957, and Trunk Records reissued it on CD in 2010. Moondog inspired other musicians with several songs dedicated to him. These include "Moondog" on Pentangle's 1968 album Sweet Child and "Spear for Moondog" (parts I and II) by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff on his 1968 Electric Funk album. Glam rock icon Marc Bolan and T. Rex made reference to him in the song "Rabbit Fighter" with the line "Moondog's just a prophet to the end_". The English pop group Prefab Sprout included the song "Moondog" on their album Jordan: The Comeback released in 1990. Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin covered his song "All Is Loneliness" on their 1967 self-titled album. The song was also covered by Antony and the Johnsons during their 2005 tour. Mr. Scruff's single "Get a Move On" from his album Keep It Unreal is structured around samples from "Bird's Lament". New York band The Insect Trust play a cover of Moondog's song "Be a Hobo" on their album Hoboken Saturday Night. The track "Stamping Ground", with its odd preamble of Moondog reciting one of his epigrams, was featured on the sampler double album Fill Your Head with Rock (CBS, 1970). Canadian composer and producer Daniel Lanois included a track called "Moondog" on his album/video-documentary Here Is What Is. Between 1970 and 1980 a blind bearded mystic called "Moondog" appeared as the title character in a four issue series of Underground comix written and illustrated by George Metzger. Disc jockey Rex Doane has used elements of MoondogsSymphony as his standard audio bed and theme for his WFMU radio show Fool's Paradise. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Peggy Lee, American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades, called the Queen Of American Pop Music (d. January 21, 2002) is #born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota. From her beginnings as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. In 1942, Lee had her first number-one hit, "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place", followed in 1943 by "Why Don't You Do Right?", which sold more than one million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two 1943 films, Stage Door Canteen and The Powers Girl. Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Lee was nominated for 13 Grammy Awards. In 1969, her hit "Is That All There Is?" won her the Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance. Baseball's Tug McGraw, whose career with both the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies ranged from 1965 to 1984, named one of his pitches the Peggy Lee. He explained to The Philadelphia Inquirer: "That's the one where the hitter is out in front of it and says, 'Is that all there is?'" In 1995, she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. While Lee was in London for a 1970 engagement at Royal Albert Hall, she invited Paul and Linda McCartney to dinner at The Dorchester. At the dinner, the couple gifted Lee with a song they had written entitled, "Let's Love". In July 1974, with Paul McCartney producing, Lee recorded the song at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, and it became the title track for her 40th album, her only one on Atlantic Records. In 1971, Lee sang the Lord's Prayer at the funeral of Louis Armstrong. The designer of the Miss Piggy Muppet, Bonnie Erickson, who grew up in Lee's home state of North Dakota, used the singer as inspiration for the Miss Piggy character in 1974. Originally called Miss Piggy Lee, her name was shortened to Miss Piggy when the Muppet gained fame. In 1975, Lee received an honorary doctorate in music from North Dakota State University, and in 2000, she received another from Jamestown University. In 1983, Lee had a hybrid tea rose named in her honor that was pink with a touch of peach. The Peggy Lee Rose was the 1983 American Beauty Rose of the Year. Lee has been noted as a musical influence on other artists such as Paul McCartney, Madonna, Beyonce, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Dusty Springfield, Rita Coolidge, Rita Moreno,[60] and Billie Eilish. Lee is often cited as the inspiration for the Margarita cocktail. In 1948, after a trip to Mexico, she and her husband ventured into the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas. She requested a drink similar to one she had in Mexico, and the head bartender, Santos Cruz, created the Margarita, and named it after the Spanish version of Peggy's name. Peggy Lee died after years of poor health of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California; Lee had continued to perform into the 1990s despite her poor health, sometimes using a wheelchair. She was cremated and her ashes were buried with a bench-style monument in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-nat-king-cole-show-dvd-set-2-discs-classic-music-t2.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Miles Davis, African American jazz trumpet player, composer, and bandleader, one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music (d. September 28, 1991) is #born Miles Dewey Davis III to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois, 15 miles north of St. Louis. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born and raised in Alton, Illinois, Davis left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Miles Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album 'Round About Midnight. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over four million copies in the U.S. Davis made several line-up changes while recording Someday My Prince Will Come (1961), his 1961 Blackhawk concerts, and Seven Steps to Heaven (1963), another mainstream success that introduced bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and drummer Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist Wayne Shorter to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the post-bop genre with albums such as E.S.P (1965) and Miles Smiles (1967), before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, emerging electronic music technology, and an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including keyboardist Joe Zawinul, drummer Al Foster, and guitarist John McLaughlin. This period, beginning with Davis' 1969 studio album In a Silent Way and concluding with the 1975 concert recording Agharta, was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record Bitches Brew helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with jazz fusion as the decade progressed. After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as The Man with the Horn (1981) and Tutu (1986). Critics were generally unreceptive but the decade garnered the trumpeter his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide while branching out into visual arts, film, and television work, before his death in Santa Monica, California aged 65 from the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. A funeral service was held on October 5, 1991, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church on Lexington Avenue in New York City that was attended by around 500 friends, family members, and musical acquaintances, with many fans standing in the rain. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, with one of his trumpets, near the site of Duke Ellington's grave. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/miles-ahead-the-music-of-miles-davis-dvd.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"}) (The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow", Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): The Battle Of Dunkirk (French: Bataille De Dunkerque): -- The Battle Of Dunkirk around the French port of Dunkirk (French: Dunkerque) begins. As the Allies were losing The Battle Of France on the Western Front, The Battle Of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, The Battle Of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east, the German Army Group B invaded the Netherlands and advanced westward. In response, the Supreme Allied Commander, French General Maurice Gamelin, initiated "Plan D" and British and French troops entered Belgium to engage the Germans in the Netherlands. French planning for war relied on the Maginot Line fortifications along the German-French border protecting the region of Lorraine but the line did not cover the Belgian border. German forces had already crossed most of the Netherlands before the French forces had arrived. Gamelin instead committed the forces under his command - three mechanised forces, the French First and Seventh Armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) - to the River Dyle. On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly westward toward Sedan, turning northward to the English Channel, using Generalfeldmarschall Erich Von Manstein's plan Sichelschnitt (under the German strategy Fall Gelb), effectively flanking the Allied forces. A series of Allied counter-attacks, including the Battle of Arras, failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the BEF near Armentieres, the French First Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration. After reaching the Channel, the German forces swung north along the coast, threatening to capture the ports and trap the British and French forces. In one of the most debated decisions of the war, the Germans halted their advance on Dunkirk. What became known as the "Halt Order" did not originate with Adolf Hitler. Generaloberste (Colonel-Generals) Gerd Von Rundstedt and Gunther Von Kluge suggested that the German forces around the Dunkirk pocket should cease their advance on the port and consolidate to avoid an Allied breakout. Hitler sanctioned the order on 24 May with the support of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German high command). The army was to halt for three days, which gave the Allies sufficient time to organise the Dunkirk evacuation and build a defensive line. While more than 330,000 Allied troops were rescued, the British and French sustained heavy casualties and were forced to abandon nearly all their equipment; around 16,000 French and 1,000 British soldiers died during the evacuation. The British Expeditionary Force alone lost some 68,000 soldiers during the French campaign. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dunkirk-1958-dvd-john-mills-richard-attenborough-2-dis19582.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"}) (The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow", Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German: Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug; French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France): The Battle Of Dunkirk (French: Bataille De Dunkerque): The Dunkirk Evacuation (Operation Dynamo, The Miracle Of Dunkirk, Dunkirk): -- The Dunkirk Evacuation begins to save the British Expeditionary Force trapped by advancing German armies on the northern coast of France. Boats and vessels of all shapes and sizes ferried 200,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian soldiers across the English Channel by June 2. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week long Battle Of France. In a speech to the House Of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this "a colossal military disaster", saying "the whole root and core and brain of the British Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish or be captured. In his "we shall fight on the beaches" speech on 4 June, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of deliverance". After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, France and the British Empire declared war on Germany and imposed an economic blockade. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent to help defend France. After the Phoney War of October 1939 to April 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France on 10 May 1940. Three of their panzer corps attacked through the Ardennes and drove northwest to the English Channel. By 21 May German forces had trapped the BEF, the remains of the Belgian forces, and three French field armies along the northern coast of France. Commander of the BEF, General Viscount Gort, immediately saw evacuation across the Channel as the best course of action, and began planning a withdrawal to Dunkirk, the closest good port. Late on 23 May, a halt order was issued by Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of Army Group A. Adolf Hitler approved the order the next day and had the German High Command send confirmation to the front. Destroying the trapped BEF, French, and Belgian armies was left to the Luftwaffe until the order was rescinded on 26 May. This gave trapped Allied forces time to construct defensive works and pull back large numbers of troops to fight The Battle Of Dunkirk. From 28 to 31 May, in the Siege of Lille, the remaining 40,000 men of the once-formidable French First Army fought a delaying action against seven German divisions, including three armoured divisions. On the first day only 7,669 Allied soldiers were evacuated, but by the end of the eighth day, 338,226 of them had been rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 boats. Many troops were able to embark from the harbour's protective mole onto 39 British Royal Navy destroyers, four Royal Canadian Navy destroyers, and a variety of civilian merchant ships, while others had to wade out from the beaches, waiting for hours in shoulder-deep water. Some were ferried to the larger ships by what came to be known as the little ships of Dunkirk, a flotilla of hundreds of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, yachts, and lifeboats called into service from Britain. The BEF lost 68,000 soldiers during the French campaign and had to abandon nearly all of its tanks, vehicles, and equipment. In his speech to the House Of Commons on 4 June, Churchill reminded the country that "we must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dunkirk-1940-the-great-escape1940.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter and beauty, known for her distinctive voice, mystical stage persona and poetic, symbolic lyrics, best known for her work as a songwriter and vocalist with Fleetwood Mac, and her chart-topping solo career, is #born Stephanie Lynn Nicks at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona into a family of German, English, Welsh and Irish ancestry. Her work both as a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist has produced over forty top 50 hits and sold over 140 million records, making her one of the best-selling music acts of all time with Fleetwood Mac. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then-boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, was the best-selling album of the year of its release and to date has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the fifth biggest-selling studio album of all time. The album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached number one in various countries worldwide. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. It produced four US Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles, with Nicks's "Dreams" being the band's first and only Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit. In 1981, while remaining a member of Fleetwood Mac, Nicks began her solo career, releasing the studio album Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200 and has reached multiplatinum status. She has released nine solo studio albums, with her most recent, Stand Back, released in 2019. Nicks was named one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time by Rolling Stone. She is the only woman to have been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and as a solo artist in 2019. She has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She has won numerous awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award and five Grammy Award nominations. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1949: #BOTD: #HBD! Pam Grier, African American actress and beauty, considered cinema's first female action star, is #born Pamela Suzette Grier in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation, and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974); her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975). She portrayed the title character in Quentin Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), and also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke!, (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), and Poms (2019). On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998-2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004-2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019-2020). She received praise for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crazy-movie-trailers-1960s1970s-coming-attraction196019703.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1956: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Transport And Bus Segregation In The United States: Transport And Bus Boycotts In The United States: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott: -- The Tallahassee Bus Boycott is precipitated when Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A & M University students, are arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for "placing themselves in a position to incite a riot". The day after the incident, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of the women's residence. News of the cross-burning quickly spread throughout the campus, and Student Government Association officers, led by Brodes Hartley, called for a meeting of the student body. The incidents (the cross-burning and the arrest) were discussed in the meeting. Student leaders called for the withdrawal of student support of the bus company and for students to seek participation in the boycott throughout the community. Reverend Steele, a member of the Tallahassee Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) and leader in the NAACP, organized a mass meeting that night. In the meeting, the Inter-Civic Council (ICC) was born from the joining of the NAACP, IMA, and Tallahassee Civic League. The ICC was formed in response to community fear that an NAACP-led protest would be met with repression by the state of Florida. Its leaders held weekly meetings and the council was highly active in Civil Rights-related activism. The NAACP became involved well after the boycott had been started, when leaders sent a lawyer to defend drivers of boycotters (carpool drivers) who were arrested for driving unlicensed "for hire" vehicles. Robert Saunders, representing the NAACP, and Rev. C. K. Steele then began talks with city authorities while the local African-American community started boycotting the city's buses. Three months into the boycott, the demand for the employment of black bus drivers was met. For months after Browder v. Gayle, the government upheld de facto segregation, with the instantiation of an ordinance mandating assigned seats on buses. That led to arrests of blacks who did not sit in the seats assigned to them. Efforts persisted in resisting bus segregation and enforcement of the ordinance became less strict, when blacks again rode the buses. In 1959, members of the Tallahassee InterCivic Council tested the success of the boycott by riding the newly integrated buses; they found that the integration was successful. Organizational and community leaders did not gather until after the initiation of the boycott, which highlights the spontaneity of the student-initiated boycott. Furthermore, the boycott was initiated during a time in which Tallahassee's civil rights-related organizational activity was markedly low and the black community in Tallahassee was unprepared for a protest as large as the boycott. The creation of the ICC provided an example of the emergence of new norms and structures. Although it is widely believed that the centers of Civil Rights Movement activity were organizational and structural bodies such as the black church and the NAACP, a new normative structure emerged in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott. The boycott was a departure from the circumstances of the Montgomery bus boycott, which was planned and precipitated by active individuals and organizations; in addition, the Tallahassee boycott, at least in its initial stages, was separate from and did not model the latter. On December 22, 1956, the ICC calld off the The Tallahassee Bus Boycott after talks with city authorities resulted in an agreement to repeal their bus-franchise segregation clause because it conflicted with the SCOTUS ruling Browder v. Gayle (1956). The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida, that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1967: Record Releases: -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in the UK. It is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour. In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that formed the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions began on 24 November in Abbey Road Studio Two with two compositions inspired by the Beatles' youth, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", but after pressure from EMI, the songs were released as a double A-side single and not included on the album. In February 1967, after recording the title track "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album representing a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically. During the recording sessions, the band furthered the technological progression they had made with their 1966 album Revolver. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition and recording on songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick helped realise the group's ideas by approaching the studio as an instrument, applying orchestral overdubs, sound effects and other methods of tape manipulation. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It is described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and is credited with marking the beginning of the album era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That year, Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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Today, May 26, 2026

May 26, 1998: Immigration: Immigration To The United States: New Immigrants: Ellis Island: Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) Decisions: New Jersey v. New York [523 U.S. 767 (1998)]: -- The Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is roughly 90% in the state of New Jersey, not New York. An interstate compact had been signed between New York and New Jersey in 1834, years prior to Ellis Island's becoming an immigration station. This compact granted New York the rights to all islands in the water channel separating the two states including both Ellis Island and Liberty Island, but granting New Jersey the rights to half of the water channel. This agreement was fashioned in order to allow New Jersey to build docks on the riverfront, while allowing New York to control islands that it already considered integral parts of its territory. This led to places such as Ellis Island located on the New Jersey side of the river, but belonging to New York. Between the 1890s and 1934, Ellis Island was expanded through land reclamation and soon became a major center for immigrants coming from Europe to the New World. This land was added by the federal government and considered part of New York for decades before New Jersey brought its lawsuit. Since the land added by the federal government was not expressly granted to New York by the interstate compact, and was placed in water that had been expressly granted to New Jersey, the majority ruled that this "new" land (decades old by this time) must belong to New Jersey. The minority dissent used historical reasons and "common-sense inference" as their basis for supporting New York's claim. According to the court decision, all land originally given to New York by the compact (the original, natural Ellis Island) remains under the jurisdiction of New York, but any and all land reclaimed from the waters after that point is under the jurisdiction of New Jersey. The island covers a land area of 27.5 acres. The two states jointly negotiated a post-trial settlement to decide exactly where and how to draw the lines in accordance with the Supreme Court decision. The 2.74-acre original island and other areas negotiated in that post-trial settlement, totaling 3.3 acres, to this day remains part of New York that is a landlocked enclave within New Jersey. The case is possibly the first to use GIS in determining a Supreme Court decision. While the court decision has changed the state territorial sovereignty of most parts of the island, the actual current landowner (holder of the title of Ellis Island) is the federal government. Very few activities on the island were directly affected by the transfer of sovereignty, but the decision did affect some instances of sales taxes, and may well play an influential role in shaping future developments and maintenance of the island. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/immigration-to-the-united-states-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Films 3 Project Apollo Reaching For The Moon DVD, MP4, USB
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1969: Splashdowns: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project Apollo: Apollo 10 (AS-10): -- Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. On May 18, 1969, Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan, aboard a Saturn V, lifted off for the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. It was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures, just short of actually landing. The Lunar Module (LM) followed a descent orbit to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface, at the point where powered descent for landing would normally begin. Its success enabled the first landing to be attempted on the Apollo 11 mission two months later. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) on May 26, 1969, during the return from the Moon. The mission's call signs included the names of the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, which became Apollo 10's semi-official mascots. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some mission-related artwork for NASA. https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-3-project-apollo-reaching-for-the-moon-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer Space Films 5: Apollo Moon Exploration Films DVD, Download, USB
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan Bean, fourth person to walk on the Moon, American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer and test pilot, selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3 (b. March 15, 1932) #dies in Houston, Texas, at the age of 86. His death followed the sudden onset of illness two weeks before while he was in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At the time of his death, Bean was married to his second wife, Leslie, and was also survived by his sister, Paula Scott. Bean was interred in Arlington National Cemetery on November 8, 2018. Alan Bean was born Alan LaVern Bean in Wheeler, the seat of Wheeler County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. Before becoming an astronaut, Bean graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1955 and re-joined the U.S. Navy-he served as an enlisted member for a year after his high school graduation. He received his naval aviator wings in 1956 and served as a fighter pilot. In 1960, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, flew as a test pilot and was The New Nine selection finalist in 1962. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second crewed mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as those of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living crew member of Apollo 12. https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-5-apollo-moon-exploration-dv5.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World War II Propaganda Cartoons MP4 Video Download 2 DVD Set
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, credited as I. Freleng early in his career (b. August 21, 1906) #dies of natural causes in Los Angeles, aged 89. The WB animated TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and the Looney Tunes cartoon From Hare to Eternity (which was the last one directed by Chuck Jones), were both dedicated to his memory. After his death, Cartoon Network aired a variation of one of their station idents with the words "Friz Freleng: 1906-1995" (the birth year is disputed) appearing and an announcer paying tribute to Freleng and his works. He is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery. Friz Freleng was born Isadore Freleng to a Jewish family in Kansas City, Missouri. The name "Friz" came from his friend and fellow Warner Bros. cartoonist Hugh Harman (later of of Harman-Ising and MGM cartoons), who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner, due to the characters strong resemblance to him. Over time, this shortened to "Friz". In total he created more than 300 cartoons, and he introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance), and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won five Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards. After Warner closed down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (including The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday-morning cartoons through the early 1980s. https://store.earthstation1.com/world-war-ii-propaganda-cartoons-dvd-dual-layer-all-regions.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Adam Clayton Powell Biography + 2 Bonus Titles DVD MP4 Video Download
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Charles Rangel, African American soldier, lawyer, and Democratic politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York, the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House Of Representatives at the time of his retirement, serving continuously from 1971 to 2017, first African American Chair of the influential House Ways and Means Committee; founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus (b. June 11, 1930) #dies at Harlem Hospital Center at the age of 94. He had been living in the Lenox Terrace apartment complex in Harlem at the time of his death. Tributes for Rangel came from many senior figures in the Democratic Party. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that flags across the state of New York would fly at half-staff in Rangel's honor on May 27 and on June 13, the day of his funeral. He laid in repose at St. Aloysius Church in Harlem on June 9, 2025. Public viewings were held on June 9 and June 10. A memorial service was held by Harlem community leaders on the evening of June 10. Rangel would lay in state at New York City Hall on June 11 and 12, with public viewing held on June 12. He was the first person to lie in state at New York City Hall since James Davis in 2003. His casket was guarded by uniformed personnel from both the New York Fire and Sanitation Departments. On June 12, New York politicians spoke at a ceremony in City Hall honoring Rangel, including Hillary Clinton and U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The same day, an honor guard service was held for Rangel, with the pallbearers representing the African American-led 369th Regiment of the U.S. Army, also known as the "Harlem Hellfighters." On June 13, Rangel's casket was removed from City Hall, and his funeral was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral. At the funeral, New York Governor Kathy Hochul opened the eulogies, with Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former President Bill Clinton, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi among the other politicians who delivered eulogies. Meanwhile, 70 members of the South Korean National Assembly, including Rep. Choi Hyung-du, proposed a resolution to commemorate the deceased. The resolution expresses gratitude for their participation in the Korean War and honors their contributions to the development of the ROK-US alliance. On July 16, 2025, Charles and Alma Rangel were interred in Section 62, Grave 1957 of Arlington National Cemetery. Charles Rangel was born Charles Bernard Rangel in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and lived there until his death. While he was the most senior member of the House, he was also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation. Rangel earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, where he led a group of soldiers out of a deadly Chinese army encirclement during the Battle of Kunu-ri in 1950. Rangel graduated from New York University in 1957 and St. John's University School of Law in 1960. He worked as a private lawyer, assistant U.S. attorney, and legal counsel during the early-mid-1960s. He served two terms in the New York State Assembly from 1967 to 1971 and defeated long-time incumbent Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in a primary challenge on his way to being elected to the House Of Representatives. Rangel rose rapidly in the Democratic ranks in the House, combining solidly liberal views with a pragmatic style towards finding political and legislative compromises. His long-time concerns with battling the importation and effects of illegal drugs led to his becoming chair of the House Select Committee on Narcotics, where he helped define national policy on the issue during the 1980s. As one of Harlem's "Gang Of Four", he also became a leader in New York City and State politics. He played a significant role in the creation of the 1995 Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and the national Empowerment Zone Act, which helped change the economic face of Harlem and other inner-city areas. Rangel is known both for his genial manner, with an ability to win over fellow legislators, and for his blunt speaking; he has long been outspoken about his views and has been arrested several times as part of political demonstrations. He was a strong opponent of the George W. Bush administration and the Iraq War, and he put forth proposals to reinstate the draft during the 2000s. Beginning in 2008, Rangel faced a series of personal legal issues focusing on ethics violations and allegations of failures to abide by the tax laws. The House Ethics Committee focused on whether Rangel improperly rented multiple rent-stabilized New York apartments, improperly used his office in raising money for the Rangel Center at the City College of New York, and failed to disclose rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic. In March 2010, Rangel stepped aside as the Ways and Means Chair. In November 2010, the Ethics Committee found Rangel guilty of 11 counts of violating House ethics rules and on December 2, 2010, the full House approved a sanction of censure against him. During the 2012 and 2014 elections, Rangel faced two strong primary challenges in a now primarily Hispanic district and prevailed. He did not run for re-election in 2016 and left office in January 2017. https://store.earthstation1.com/adam-clayton-powell-documentary-biography.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Secret Intelligence: US Espionage History TV Series DVD MP4 USB
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2017: #DOTD: #RIP: Zbigniew Brzezinski, known by the nickname Zbig, Polish-American scholar, author, diplomat, political scientist, liberal idealist, progressive, internationalist, political liberal, anti-communist, political activist and analyst, primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission (a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America), 10th United States National Security Advisor (b. March 28, 1928) #dies at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia. The cause of death was not reported. His funeral was held June 9 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, D.C. Former President Carter and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were among those who gave eulogies, while attendees included international diplomats and emissaries; journalists Carl Bernstein, Chuck Todd and David Ignatius; 100-year-old Gen. Edward Rowny; former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice; and former National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. "If I could choose my seatmate, it would be Dr. Brzezinski," Carter said of his international flights on Air Force One. Former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, aged 94, was unable to attend, but a note he sent was read during a eulogy: "The world is an emptier place without Zbig pushing the limits of his insights." His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his wife, Swiss-American sculptor Emilie Benes Brzezinski. He was survived by his wife and his three children: Ian Joseph Brzezinski, foreign policy and military affairs expert, Deputy Assistant Secretary Of Defense For Europe And NATO Policy from May 14, 2001 to January 20, 2005 under President George W. Bush; Mark Francis Brzezinski, lawyer serving as the United States Ambassador To Poland since 2022, United States Ambassador To Sweden from 2011 to 2015 under President Barack Obama; and Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough, television journalist, talk show host, political commentator, news anchor and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe with her husband Joe Scarborough. Zbigniew Brzezinski was born Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski in Warsaw, Poland into an aristocratic Roman Catholic family originally from Brzezany, Tarnopol Voivodeship (then part of Poland, currently in Ukraine). He was an advocate for anti-Soviet containment, for human rights organizations, and for "cultivating a strong West". He has been praised for his ability to see "the big picture". Critics described him as hawkish or "foreign policy hardliner" on some issues such as Poland-Russia relations. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union; the brokering of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel; the overthrow of the US-friendly Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the start of the Iranian Revolution; the United States' encouragement of dissidents in Eastern Europe and championing of human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union; supporting the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and, ultimately, Soviet occupation troops during the Soviet-Afghan War; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999. Brzezinski served as the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appeared frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is co-anchor. He was a supporter of the Prague Process. His eldest son, Ian, is a foreign policy expert, and his youngest son, Mark, is the current United States Ambassador to Poland and previously served as the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015. https://store.earthstation1.com/secret-intelligence-us-espionage-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War And Peace In The Nuclear Age TV Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1972: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Arms Control: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaties:The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (The ABM Treaty, ABMT): -- The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, an agreement that remained in force until 2002. It was an arms control treaty on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons. Under the terms of the treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles. In 1997, five years after the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union, four former Soviet republics agreed with the United States to succeed the USSR's role in the treaty. In June 2002 the United States withdrew from the treaty, leading to its termination. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-and-peace-in-the-nuclear-age-dvd-set-tv-series-7-disc7.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black Civil Rights Films: African-American History DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1961: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Transport And Bus Segregation In The United States: The Freedom Riders: The Journey Of Reconciliation (The First Freedom Ride): The Anniston And Birmingham Bus Attacks: The Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee: -- In the aftermath of the jailing of yet another harrassed group of Freedom Riders, this one a group that rode to Jackson, Mississippi where they were promptly jailed due to Robert Kennedy's secret arranged not to interfere with Mississippi authorities as long as they would prevent violence, CORE leader James Farmer and SCLC leader Martin Luther King establish in Atlanta, Georgia an alliance as the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee (FRCC) in association wtih CORE, SCLC and SNCC. Thereafter recruited and funded by the FRCC, hundreds of Freedom Rider activists would travel from across the country into the Deep South as part of over sixty different Freedom Rides. Most of the Riders would be jailed in Jackson; the plan was to strain the Mississippi prison system to its limit while simultaneously building on the publicity the original Ride had generated. Kennedy urged for a "cooling off" period but this idea was rejected by CORE and other groups. Freedom Rider Jimmy McDonald would later write: "In spite of this, we find responsible people demanding "cooling off" periods and moderation. This is not a new request, and we often have complied with it. I would be happy if they would moderately respect me as a human being and afford me the same dignities that are the right of everyone of us to expect and receive - which include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But according to these so-called moderates, I already am going too fast. They would rather I did nothing to secure the civil rights that have been denied me and my people since the first Negro slave was brought here in the seventeenth century. For 300 years we have been cooling off." https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Z (1969) Grigoris Lambrakis & The Greek Generals Coup Of 1967 MP4 DVD
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1963: Greece: Modern Greece: The Kingdom Of Greece: Paul Of Greece: The Reign Of Paul Of Greece: The Assassination Of Grigoris Lambrakis: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek left-wing politician, physician, Olympic track and field athlete, and member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens, resistance fighter against Axis rule during World War II and later a prominent anti-war activist, born April 3, 1912 in the village of Kerasitsa in the district of Tegea (Arcadia, the Peloponnese) #dies after he was fatally clubbed in an assassination attempt five days prior on May 22, 1964. Shortly after he had delivered the keynote speech at an anti-war meeting in Thessaloniki, two far-right extremists, Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyros Gotzamanis, driving a three-wheeled vehicle, struck Lambrakis with a club over the head in plain view of a large number of people and (allegedly) some police officers. He suffered brain injuries and died in the hospital five days later. The two men were arrested because of the reaction of a by-stander (Manolis Hatziapostolou, nicknamed Tiger) who jumped on their vehicle and fought with them. The day after his death, his funeral in Athens became a massive demonstration. More than 500,000 people rallied to protest against the right-wing government and the Royal Court of King Paul, seen by many to support the activities of the right-wing extremists. Lambrakis remained in the hearts of the Greek people as a national symbol of democracy, representing the struggle against political repression, Royal Court scandal, and international dependence. After the fall of the military dictatorship of The Greek Junta (The Regime Of The Colonels) in 1974, numerous places, including a football stadium in Kallithea and streets and squares throughout the country, have been named in honor of Grigoris Lambrakis. The events surrounding his assassination inspired the film Z, a 1969 Algerian-French epic political thriller by Costa-Gavras, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos that presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Lambrakis, and the film captures the outrage about the military dictatorship that ruled Greece at the time of its making. https://store.earthstation1.com/z-1969-dvd-yves-montand-irene-papas-jeanlouis-trintig1969.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Gunsmoke Old Time Radio Series MP3 Set DVD, Audio Download, USB Stick
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! James Arness, American actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the CBS television series Gunsmoke (d. June 3, 2011) is #born James King Aurnes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe, Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves. James Arness died of natural causes at the age of 88 at his Brentwood home in Los Angeles, California. His body is interred in the Sanctuary of Abiding Hope alcove in the Jasmine Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. https://store.earthstation1.com/gunsmoke-mp3-dvd-complete-old-time-radio-serie3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Howls, Boners And Shockers: Art Linkletter CD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (b. July 17, 1912) #dies at age 97 at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his wife Lois Foerster Linkletter. After his death, Phyllis Diller stated, "In a couple of months Art Linkletter would have been 98 years old, a full life of fun and goodness, an orphan who made it to the top. What a guy." He was survived by his wife Lois, and daughters Dawn Griffin and Sharon Linkletter, as well as seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Alexis Linkletter, his oldest great grandchild, has pursued a career in broadcasting and hosts a number of popular crime podcasts and produces documentary television. Arthur Gordon Linkletter was born Arthur Gordon Kelly or Gordon Arthur Kelley (sources differ) in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In his autobiography, Confessions of a Happy Man (1960), he revealed that he had no contact with his natural parents or his sister or two brothers since he was abandoned when only a few weeks old. He was adopted by Mary (nee Metzler) and Fulton John Linkletter, an evangelical preacher. Art Linkletter was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. Linkletter was famous for interviewing children on House Party and Kids Say the Darndest Things, which led to a series of books quoting children. https://store.earthstation1.com/howls-boners-and-shockers-art-linkletter-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WWII Films: Homefront U.S.A. Collection DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Eddie Albert, American actor and activist who participated in the creation of Earth Day, which is celebrated on the same calendar date as his birthday (b. April 22, 1906) #dies of pneumonia on at the age of 99 in his home in Pacific Palisades, California. He is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, next to his late wife and near his Green Acres co-star Eva Gabor. For contributions to the television industry, Eddie Albert was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6441 Hollywood Boulevard. Eddie Albert was born Edward Albert Heimberger was an American actor in Rock Island, Illinois. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; the first nomination came in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and the second in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid. Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the sadistic prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman. https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-homefront-usa-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eat The Document (1966) Bob Dylan DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor, best known as a member of The Band (d. April 19, 2012) is #born Mark Lavon Helm in Elaine, Arkansas into a family of cotton farmers, and grew up in Turkey Scratch, a hamlet of Marvell, Arkansas. Levon Helm known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Helm also had a successful career as a film actor, appearing as Loretta Lynn's father in Coal Miner's Daughter, as Chuck Yeager's friend and colleague Captain Jack Ridley in The Right Stuff, and as a Tennessee firearms expert in Shooter. In 1998, Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer, which caused him to lose his singing voice. After treatment, his cancer eventually went into remission, and he gradually regained the use of his voice. His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008, and in November of that year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 91 in its list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2010, Electric Dirt, his 2009 follow-up to Dirt Farmer, won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, a category inaugurated in 2010. In 2011, his live album Ramble at the Ryman won the Grammy in the same category. On April 17, 2012, his wife and daughter announced on Helm's website that he was "in the final stages of his battle with cancer" and thanked fans while requesting prayers. Two days later, Helm died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is buried at Woodstock Cemetery in Woodstock, New York. https://store.earthstation1.com/eat-the-document-aka-stage-3966-bob-dylan39s-1963966391966.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock! UK: British Invasion Rock Documentary DVD, Download, Flash Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan White, English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes (b. June 14, 1949) #dies at his home in Seattle, aged 72, following a brief illness. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his wife Gigi. It had been announced four days earlier that he would be absent from the Close to the Edge 50th anniversary tour due to health issues. Two months before his death, many personal items and valuable musical instruments were stolen from White's home and from a nearby storage facility. Stolen or damaged items included platinum record awards and a drum kit that White had used on the Plastic Ono Band sessions. A tribute concert for White was held on October 2, 2022 featuring members of Yes and White along with other special guests including former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin. Alan White was born in the village of Pelton, County Durham, England. White joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Bruford. He was the longest-serving member of the band and the only member besides original bassist Chris Squire never to leave. He appeared on 43 albums with Yes, 17 of which were original studio albums. In 1969, White joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band, after Lennon invited him to play at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, followed by a show at the Lyceum Ballroom. He notably played drums on the singles "Instant Karma!" and "Imagine", as well as most of Lennon's 1971 Imagine album. In addition to his work with Yes and John Lennon, White performed on over 50 albums by other musicians, notably George Harrison, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Terry Reid, Joe Cocker and The Ventures. White was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-uk-british-invasion-rock-1960s119601980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock! UK: British Invasion Rock Documentary DVD, Download, Flash Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Alan White, English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes (b. June 14, 1949) #dies at his home in Seattle, aged 72, following a brief illness. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his wife Gigi. It had been announced four days earlier that he would be absent from the Close to the Edge 50th anniversary tour due to health issues. Two months before his death, many personal items and valuable musical instruments were stolen from White's home and from a nearby storage facility. Stolen or damaged items included platinum record awards and a drum kit that White had used on the Plastic Ono Band sessions. A tribute concert for White was held on October 2, 2022 featuring members of Yes and White along with other special guests including former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin. Alan White was born in the village of Pelton, County Durham, England. White joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Bruford. He was the longest-serving member of the band and the only member besides original bassist Chris Squire never to leave. He appeared on 43 albums with Yes, 17 of which were original studio albums. In 1969, White joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band, after Lennon invited him to play at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, followed by a show at the Lyceum Ballroom. He notably played drums on the singles "Instant Karma!" and "Imagine", as well as most of Lennon's 1971 Imagine album. In addition to his work with Yes and John Lennon, White performed on over 50 albums by other musicians, notably George Harrison, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Terry Reid, Joe Cocker and The Ventures. White was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-uk-british-invasion-rock-1960s119601980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Rick Derringer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, most famous as the singer of "Hang On Sloopy" (b. August 5, 1947) #dies in Ormond Beach, Florida at the age of 77. According to TMZ, Derringer's wife, Jenda Derringer, said he "died peacefully after being taken off life support Monday night following a medical episode". His caretaker and close friend, Tony Wilson, said Derringer had undergone a triple bypass two months earlier but had been doing well. His remains were cremated; the final disposition of his ashes are not publicly disclosed. Rick Derringer was born Richard Dean Zehringer in Celina, Ohio. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the McCoys, when he was brought in to record lead vocals for the number-one hit single with "Hang On Sloopy", regarded as a classic track from the garage rock era. The McCoys had seven songs chart in the top 100, including covers of "Fever" and "Come On, Let's Go". After releasing All American Boy, Derringer established a career as a solo artist. In 1973, Derringer found further success with his song "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". He worked extensively with brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter, playing lead and rhythm guitar in their bands and producing all of their gold and platinum records, including Edgar Winter's hits "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride" (both in 1973). He collaborated with Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, and "Weird Al" Yankovic, producing Yankovic's Grammy Award-winning songs "Eat It" (1984) and "Fat" (1988). He produced the World Wrestling Federation's album The Wrestling Album (1985) and its follow-up, Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II (1987). Those albums featured Hulk Hogan's entrance song, "Real American," initially the theme song of the tag team U.S. Express; and the Demolition tag team's theme, "Demolition." Derringer produced three songs on the soundtrack of the 1984 Tom Hanks film Bachelor Party. Derringer married Liz Agriss in 1969, a writer whom he met when she was working for Andy Warhol. The marriage ended in divorce. He married secondly Dyan Buckelew and they had one daughter. The marriage also ended in divorce. His third wife was Jenda. In 2017, Derringer appeared on Alex Jones's Infowars several times. In one of those appearances, political consultant Roger Stone interviewed him about his support for Donald Trump. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Peter Ustinov's Russia TV Documentary Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, May 26, 2026
May 26, 1896: The Monarchy Of Russia (The Russian Monarchy): Royal Accessions: Successions To The Russian Throne: Coronations: The Coronation Of Nicholas II And Alexandra Feodorovna: -- Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia when he is coronated (crowned) Emperor Of Russia. Nicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Nikolai II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. May 6,] 1868 - July 17, 1918), known as Saint Nicholas II of Russia in the Russian Orthodox Church, last Emperor of Russia, ruled from November 1, 1894 until his forced abdication on March 15, 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody by his political adversaries due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the executions of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War. Soviet historians portray Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects. Russia was defeated in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War which saw the annihilation of the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle Of Tsushima, the loss of Russian influence over Manchuria and Korea, and the Japanese annexation of South Sakhalin. The Anglo-Russian Entente was designed to counter the German Empire's attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, but it ended the Great Game of confrontation between Russia and the United Kingdom. Nicholas approved the Russian mobilization on 30 July 1914 which led to Germany declaring war on Russia on 1 August 1914. It is estimated that around 3.3 million Russians were killed in the First World War. The Imperial Russian Army's severe losses, the High Command's incompetent management of the war efforts, and the lack of food and supplies on the Home Front were the leading causes of the fall of the House of Romanov. Following the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer 1917. On 30 April 1918, Nicholas, Alexandra, and his mother Marie were handed over to the local Ural Soviet in Ekaterinburg; the rest of the captives followed on 23 May. Nicholas and his family were eventually murdered by their Bolshevik guards on the night of 16/17 July 1918. The remains of the imperial family were re-interred in St. Petersburg 80 years later on 17 July 1998. In 1981, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were recognized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in New York City. On 15 August 2000, they were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as passion bearers, commemorating believers who face death in a Christ-like manner. https://store.earthstation1.com/peter-ustinov39s-russia-dvds-complete-6-part-tv-series-2-d3962.html