On this day: May 26The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote (1868)
Russia and the U.K. sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state (1879)
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2 (1970)
President Barack Obama nominates federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court justice David Souter (2009)
b: Moondog (1918), János Kádár (1912); d: Theodore Morell (1948), Martin Heidegger (1976)
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