TODAY IN HISTORY
On May 26, 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed
the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow.
In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married.
In 2009, President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2011, Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb
general suspected of leading the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested after a 16-year manhunt.
Minneapolis police issued a statement saying George Floyd had died after a “medical incident”; minutes after the statement was released, bystander video was posted online. Protests over Floyd’s death began.