• Today is Monday, May 26, the 146th day of 2014. There are 219 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 26, 1954, explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)
• On this date:
• In 1521, Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms (vohrms) because of his religious beliefs and writings.
• In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.
• In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on the remaining charges.
• In 1913, Actors' Equity Association was organized by a group of actors at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel 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 1942, the U.S. War Department formally established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). The Tule (TOO'-lee) Lake Segregation Center for Japanese-American wartime internees opened in northern California.
• 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

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