Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 26. It was on this date in 1868 that Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He would not be the last. Johnson was charged with "high crimes and misdemeanors" and would be later acquitted in the Senate by one vote. Advertisement An explosion ripped through the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off the coast of Rhode Island on this date in 1954. More than 100 crewmembers were killed. Détente on this date in 1972 when President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev -- during a meeting in Moscow -- signed a pact limiting nuclear weapons. These type of arms treaties were a big deal at a time when the Cold War was in full swing and the superpowers each had a finger on the trigger. Imelda wanted her stuff back. On this date in 1992, former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos demanded the Manila government return billions of dollars in assets seized after her late husband was ousted from power in 1986. We don't know if her demands included any of the thousands of pairs of shoes that were found in the presidential palace after the Marcoses fled. Advertisement And, in one of the oddest pairings in musical history, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, were wed in a secret ceremony in the Dominican Republic. It was his first marriage, her second. News of the marriage leaked out in July. But the self-styled "King of Pop" and the daughter of "The King" didn't confirm their union until early August. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
