On this day

May 26, 1954

Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device

Filter by:

Headlines from May 26, 1954

Passage Unsealed Near Pyramid Believed to Lead to Cheops' Tomb; 15-Ton Stone Blocking Tunnel Is Cut -- Egypt Hopes to Find King's Treasure

By Kenneth Love

new subterranean passageway uncovered at Great Pyramid, Giza; expected to lead to tomb of Cheops; K el Malakh, dir of projects in Lower Egypt, expects to find Cheops remains and funeral treasures untouched by thieves; 15-ton, 6-ft-thick limestone that sealed passageway uncovered in course of bldg rd around Pyramid; el Malakh gives details; tomb's existence was revealed by hieroglyphics on scarab found in '52; map

None0 words
Continue reading...
Share

Notable Births

1954Michael Devine, Irish Republican hunger strike participant (died 1981)[†]

Michael James Devine was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was a volunteer in the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), and the last hunger striker to die during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.

Alan Hollinghurst

1954Alan Hollinghurst, English novelist, poet, short story writer, and translator[†]

Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.

Denis Lebel

1954Denis Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Transport[†]

Denis Lebel is a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Roberval, Quebec, and deputy leader of the Official Opposition. Lebel was born in Roberval, Quebec.

Notable Deaths

Lionel Conacher

1954Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (born 1900)[†]

Lionel Pretoria Conacher, nicknamed "the Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was Canadian football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts. He was also a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team that won the International League championship in 1926. In hockey, he won the Memorial Cup in 1920, and the Stanley Cup twice: with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934 and the Montreal Maroons in 1935. Additionally, he won wrestling, boxing and lacrosse championships during his playing career. He is one of three players, including Joe Miller and Carl Voss, to have their names engraved on both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.

Historical Context for May 26, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]