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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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