In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. In 1981, 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida. In 1971, Don McLean recorded his song 'American Pie' at The Record Plant in New York City (it was released the following November by United Artists Records). (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.) In 1954, explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. In 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress. In 1865, Confederate forces west of the Mississippi surrendered in New Orleans. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. Today is Thursday, May 26, the 146th day of 2022.