Today’s highlight in history On this date

On May 26, 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal on the remaining charges.

In 1647,

Alse Young was hanged in Hartford, Conn., in the first recorded execution of a “witch” in the American colonies.

In 1897,

the Gothic horror novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker was first published in London.

In 1938,

the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.

In 1940,

Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.

In 1960,

U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets during a meeting of the Security Council of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

In 1972,

President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

In 1978,

Resorts Casino Hotel, the first legal U.S. casino outside Nevada, opened in Atlantic City, N.J.

Ten years ago:

Chinese officials said they would waive their onechild policy for families with a child who was killed, severely injured or disabled in the country’s devastating earthquake.

Five years ago:

Ten fans were injured during the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway won by Kevin Harvick when a nylon rope supporting a FOX Sports overhead television camera fell from the grandstands onto the track surface.

One year ago:

Two men were stabbed to death aboard a light-rail train in Portland, Ore.; police said the victims were trying to protect two women who were the target of a man’s anti-Muslim rant. (A suspect faces trial.)