Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2026. There are 219 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On May 26, 2009, California\u2019s Supreme Court upheld the state\u2019s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid. (Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in June 2015.)<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.<\/p>\n
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924, which barred immigration from Asia and restricted the total number of immigrants from other parts of the world to 165,000 annually.<\/p>\n
In 1927, the Ford Model T officially ended production as Henry Ford and his son Edsel drove the 15 millionth Model T off the Ford assembly line in Highland Park, Michigan.<\/p>\n
In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.<\/p>\n
In 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.<\/p>\n
In 1954, an explosion occurred aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors.<\/p>\n
In 1967, the Beatles album \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d was released.<\/p>\n
In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty under President George W. Bush in 2002.)<\/p>\n
In 1981, 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.<\/p>\n
In 2009, President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Ratko Mladi\u0107, the Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt. (Extradited to face trial in The Hague, Netherlands, Mladi\u0107 was convicted in 2017 on genocide and war crimes charges and is serving a life sentence.)<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks is 78.
\nActor Pam Grier is 77.
\nCountry singer Hank Williams Jr. is 77.
\nCelebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is 71.
\nActor Genie Francis is 64.
\nComedian Bobcat Goldthwait is 64.
\nMusician Lenny Kravitz is 62.
\nActor Helena Bonham Carter is 60.
\nActor Joseph Fiennes is 56.
\nActor-producer-writer Matt Stone is 55.
\nSinger-songwriter Lauryn Hill is 51.
\nSinger Jaheim is 48.
\nNHL player Mathew Barzal is 29.
\nActor Lola Flanery is 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2026. There are 219 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[137785,137786,137787,101,103,102,104,106,105,9039],"class_list":["post-332622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-may-26-history","tag-prop-8","tag-same-sex-marriage-ban","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}