Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2021. There are 219 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. On this date: In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory. In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress. In 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.) 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 1977, George Willig scaled the outside of the South Tower of New York’s World Trade Center; he was arrested at the top of the 110-story building. In 1981, 14 people were killed...
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