Jolson Birthday Doings
1901 Opened at Miaco's Trocadero as Master Joelson & Fred Moore
1904 At Theatre Royal in Montreal as The Joelson Brothers
1905 At Proctor's 23rd St in New York as Jolson, Palmer and Jolson
1906 At Cook's Park in Evansville, IN, as Palmer and Jolson
1909 With Dockstader's Minstrels at Grand Opera House, Kansas City MO
1910 At Hammerstein's Victoria, New York as AL JOLSON
1911 La Belle Paree, Winter Garden, New York
1912 The Whirl of Society, Winter Garden, New York
1913 The Honeymoon Express, Winter Garden, New York
1914 The Honeymoon Express, Metropolitan, Minneapolis, MN
1915 Dancing Around, Garrick, Chicago, IL
1916 Robinson Crusoe, Jr., Winter Garden, New York
1917 Robinson Crusoe, Jr., Davidson, Milwaukee, WI
1918 Sinbad, Winter Garden, New York
1919 Sinbad, Boston Opera House, Boston, MA
1921 Sinbad, Heilig, Portland, OR
1923 Bombo, Winter Garden, New York
1924 Bombo, Curran, San Francisco, CA
1927 Big Boy, Biltmore, Los Angeles, CA
1930 Film of Big Boy in production
1931 The Wonder Bar, Nora Bayes Theatre, New York
1931 Salvation Army Benefit Broadcast
1949 Final Kraft Music Hall Broadcast
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Events on May 26th : |
| May 26, 0946 | Edmund I, King of the English, killed by robber in his palace |
| May 26, 1063 | England invades Wales |
| May 26, 1232 | The Pope sends the first Inquisition team to Aragon, Spain |
| May 26, 1445 | Charles VII, King of France, adds 15 new companies to his army |
| May 26,
1521 | Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms (vohrms) because of his religious beliefs and writings. |
| May 26, 1532 | France allies with Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse against Ferdinand of Hapsburg |
| May 26, 1538 | John Calvin is expelled from Geneva, settles in Strassburg |
| May 26, 1568 | An Eisteddfod held at Cayroes, by Queen Elizabeth's Commission |
| May 26, 1577 | Frobisher and a new expedition set out for Northern Canada |
| May 26, 1583 | Baptisim of Susannah, first child of William and Anne Shakespeare |
| May 26, 1595 | Death of St. Philip Neri |
| May 26, 1628 | British Parliament adopts the Petition of Right |
| May 26, 1645 | Death of St. Mariana of Quinto |
| May 26, 1647 | Alse Young, hanged for witchcraft in Connecticut (first execution for such in the North American colonies) |
| May 26, 1647 | Massachusetts Colony bans Catholic priests |
| May 26,
1805 | Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy. |
| May 26,
1865 | arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. |
| May 26, 1868 | President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote. |
| May 26, 1898 | San Francisco approves new City Charter, allowing Municipal ownership of utiliies (charter effective Jan 1, 1900). |
| May 26,
1913 | Actors' Equity Association was organized. |
| May 26, 1937 | Golden Gate Bridge opens. |
| May 26,
1940 | the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, during World War Two began. |
| May 26, 1946 | Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb. |
| May 26, 1958 | Union Square becomes State Historical Landmark. |
| May 26,
1969 | the "Apollo Ten" astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. |
| May 26,
1977 | George H. 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. |
| May 26,
1978 | the first legal casino in the eastern US opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey. |
| May 26,
1981 | fourteen people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS "Nimitz" off Florida. |
| May 26,
1988 | The National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers completed a four-game sweep of the Boston Bruins to capture their fourth Stanley Cup in five seasons. |
| May 26,
1991 | a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard. |
| May 26,
1993 | In what amounted to a test sales pitch for health reform, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced price gougers and profiteers in medicine before an enthusiastic audience of union activists in Washington. |
| May 26,
1997 | France's deeply unpopular prime minister, Alain Juppe (zhoo-PAY'), announced he would resign, a day after the country's governing center-right coalition suffered major losses in first-round parliamentary elections. President Clinton left for Paris to sign a new agreement between NATO and Russia. |
Birthdays |
| May 26, 1478 | Pope Clement VII [Giulio de' Medici] |
| May 26, 1877 | Isadora Duncan |
| May 26, 1886 | Al Jolson, jazz singer |
| May 26, 1907 | John Wayne, shootist |
| May 26, 1914 | Ziggy Elman, famed trumpeter, composed "And The Angels Sing" |
| May 26, 1920 | Peggy Lee, singer |
| May 26, 1923 | James Arness, TV's Matt Dillon |
| May 26, 1926 | Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter |
| May 26, 1951 | Sally Ride, astronaut |
| May 26, 1964 | Lenny Kravitz, singer |
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