1679: Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person’s right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment

1703: Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great

1873: Heinrich Schliemann discovers “Priam’s Treasure” a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia

1940: British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII

1963: Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya

1999: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo

2006: Earthquake strikes Java, Indonesia at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta, killing over 6,600 people

Source: Onthisday.com