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26 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1908 Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad, Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam, died in Lahore, Pakistan.
- 2022 A Hindi novel Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize for the first time.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.
- 1897 Irish writer Bram Stoker published the Gothic horror classic Dracula, which became the basis for an entire genre of literature and films about vampires.
- 1969 The Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
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