Born 1994: Gong Myung, South Korean actor
Born 1993: Jason Adesanya, Belgian footballer
Born 1991: Ah Young, South Korean singer and actress
Born 1989: Paula Findlay, Canadian triathlete
Born 1989: Park Ye-eun, South Korean singer
Born 2000: Yeji, South Korean singer
Born 1999: Micah Parsons, American football player
Born 1999: Georgia Wareham, Australian cricketer
Born 1997: Mathew Barzal, Canadian ice hockey player
Born 1996: Lara Goodall, South African cricketer
Died 2016: Hedy Epstein, German-born American human rights activist and Holocaust survivor (born 1924)
Died 2015: Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Died 2015: Les Johnson, Australian politician and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (born 1924)
Died 2015: Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (born 1927)
Died 2015: João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (born 1979)
Died 2022: Andy Fletcher, English musician (born 1961)
Died 2022: Ray Liotta, American actor (born 1954)
Died 2022: Alan White, English drummer (born 1949)
Died 2019: Prem Tinsulanonda, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)
Died 2017: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American politician (born 1928)
1998: A MIAT Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 crashes near Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia, resulting in 28 deaths.
2025: 65 people are injured when a car rams into a crowd on Water Street, near Liverpool F.C.'s Premier League trophy parade.
2021: Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.
2020: Protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd erupt in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, later becoming widespread across the United States and around the world.
2014: Narendra Modi takes oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India.
2008: Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.
2003: Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines Flight 4230 crashes in the Turkish town of Maçka, killing 75.
2002: The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
1998: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
1998: The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
1991: Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991: Lauda Air Flight 004 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes in the Phu Toei National Park in the Suphan Buri province of Thailand, killing all 223 people on board.
1986: The European Community adopts the European flag.
1983: The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
1981: Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
Holiday: Christian feast day: Andrew Kaggwa
Holiday: Christian feast day: Augustine of Canterbury (Anglican Communion and Eastern Orthodox)
Holiday: Christian feast day: Lambert of Vence
Holiday: Christian feast day: Mariana de Jesús de Paredes
Holiday: Christian feast day: Martyrs of the Paris Commune
Holiday: Christian feast day: Peter Sanz (one of Martyr Saints of China)
Holiday: Christian feast day: Philip Neri
Holiday: Christian feast day: Pope Eleutherius
Holiday: Christian feast day: Zachary, Bishop of Vienne
Holiday: Christian feast day: May 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)