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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On May 26, 1942, the U.S. War Department formally established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) during World War II as a way of boosting morale among American troops overseas. That same day, Radio Tokyo boasted of recent victories in the Pacific War and declared that "the Japanese people can look forward to a triumphal march into London and a victory march in New York." The Tule (TOO'-lee) Lake Segregation Center, which held Japanese-American wartime internees, opened in northern California.
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• In 1521, Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms (vohrms) because of his religious beliefs and writings.
• In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on the remaining charges.
• In 1913, Actors' Equity Association was organized in New York.
• In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
• In 1940, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
• In 1941, the American Flag House, where Betsy Ross once lived, was donated to the city of Philadelphia.
• In 1952, representatives of the United States, Britain, France and West Germany signed the Bonn Convention granting conditional sovereignty to, and ending the Allied occupation of, West Germany.
• In 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
• In 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
• In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
• In 1981, 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.
• In 1992, Charles Geschke, president and chief operating officer of Adobe Systems Inc., was kidnapped in the company's parking lot in Mountain View, Calif., and held for ransom. (Geschke was rescued four days later; his kidnappers were ar

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