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• An Indian court sentences Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik (pictured) to life in prison.
• In the United States, 21 people are killed in
  a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas
  .
• In association football, Manchester City win the English Premier League.
• The Australian Labor Party, led by Anthony Albanese, wins the most seats in the Australian federal election.

May 26: National Sorry Day in Australia; Independence Day in Georgia (1918)

Artist's impression of the Grue Church fire

• 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claimed victory at the Battle of Montijo.
• 1822 – The deadliest fire in Norwegian history (depicted) occurred at a church in Grue, killing at least 113 people.
• 1897 – The Church of England returned the original manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, an account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Plymouth Colony, to the state of Massachusetts.
• 1940 – Second World War: The Allies began a mass evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk.
• 2002 – Barges being towed destroyed part of a bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, causing vehicles to fall into the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River.