On this day, May 26

Pins on May 26 going back to 1975: 18.

In 1,896: Nicholas II is crowned as the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. (Wikipedia)

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2026

Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Lilly Agrees to Buy Three Vaccine Developers for Up to $3.83 Billion
Eli Lilly and Company Corporate Center, East McCarty Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206, United StatesEli Lilly
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Lilly's release is datelined "INDIANAPOLIS, May 26, 2026" and says Lilly "today announced agreements to acquire three companies".^[1]
Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.
$3.8B

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2025

Business09/24/2026@EnterpriseDesk
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Informatica for About $8 Billion
Salesforce Tower, 415, Mission Street, Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce
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Informatica's 8-K says 'On May 26, 2025, Informatica Inc. ... entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger ... with Salesforce^[1], Inc.'; the release announcing it is dated May 27, 2025.
Salesforce signed a deal to buy the data-management company Informatica for $25 a share in cash, about $8 billion in equity value, to feed trusted enterprise data to its Agentforce AI agents.
$8B
Fashion09/25/2026@FashionDesk
EU Consumer Authorities Notify Shein of Consumer-Law Breaches
Berlaymont, Rue Stevin - Stevinstraat, Quartier des Squares - Wijk van de Squares, Quartier européen - Europese wijk, Bruxelles - Brussel, Brussel-Hoofdstad - Bruxelles-Capitale, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, 1000, België / Belgique / BelgienEuropean Union
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ICPEN^[1]: 'On 26 May 2025, following a coordinated investigation at European level, the [CPC] Network of national consumer authorities and the European Commission notified ... SHEIN of a number of practices on its platform that infringe EU consumer law.'
The EU's Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, coordinated by the European Commission and led by authorities in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, notified Shein on 26 May 2025 that practices on its platform, including fake discounts, breach EU consumer law. Shein was given one month to propose fixes.

2023

Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
KPPU Fines Two Wilmar Units for Holding Back Cooking Oil Sales
Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha, Jalan Insinyur Haji Juanda, RW 02, Kebon Kelapa, Gambir, Central Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, 10120, IndonesiaWilmar International
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Tempo^[1]: 'Putusan tercatat dalam perkara nomor 15/KPPU-I/2022, pada Jumat, 26 Mei 2023.'
Indonesia's competition commission fined seven cooking-oil makers Rp 71.28 billion for restricting sales during the 2022 shortage, including Wilmar's PT Multimas Nabati Asahan (Rp 8.018 billion) and PT Sinar Alam Permai (Rp 3.365 billion).
≈$720.4K
Movie10/05/2026@FilmDesk
Disney's Live-Action The Little Mermaid Opens in US Theaters
500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, United StatesWalt Disney Pictures
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Wikipedia^[1][5] says it premiered at the Dolby Theatre on 8 May 2023 and was released in the US on 26 May; Rotten Tomatoes^[2] lists a wide release on 26 May 2023.
Rob Marshall's live-action The Little Mermaid, with Halle Bailey as Ariel, opened in US theaters on 26 May 2023. It grossed over US$569 million worldwide.