May 26: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1647 - Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
2. 1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
3. 1857 - Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
4. 1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory.
5. 1897 - Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
6. 1966 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
7. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moonlanding.
8. 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
9. 1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
10. 1998 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
11. Famous Birthdays: William Petty (English economist and philosopher), Abraham de Moivre (French-English mathematician), Jean Bernard (French physician and haematologist), Miles Davis (American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader), Sally Ride (American physicist and astronaut)

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