What day of the week was May 26, 1908?
The day of the week May 26th, 1908 fell on was a Tuesday.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835) died on this day in 1908.
At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia the the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.