April 26

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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865 - Union Cavalry corner John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, in a barn in Virginia and cavalryman Boston Corbett shoots him dead.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 - The worst ever mining accident occurs when 1,549 miners are killed by an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claimed to be God, married much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 - Geneva Conference (1954) begins: An international conference is held in Geneva in an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea.
1962 - Ranger program: The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The American force level in Vietnam drops to 281,400 men, the lowest number since July 1966.
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from the war in May and June, reducing the authorized troop level to 49,000.
1986 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. Thirty-one people are killed directly by the incident and many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado and 17 people will perish (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
2002 - 19 year old Robert Steinh�user shoots and kills 17 people during an amok run at his Erfurt/Germany school.

Births

121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
1785 - John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (d. 1851)
1798 - Eug�ne Delacroix, painter (d. 1863)
1798 - James Beckwourth, mountain man and ex-slave (d. 1867)
1886 - Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
1888 - Anita Loos, writer (d. 1981)
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austian-born English philosopher (d. 1951)
1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
1895 - Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep researcher (d. 1999)
1896 - Ernst Udet, Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot (d. 1941)
1897 - Olga Tschechowa, actress (d. 1980)
1897 - Douglas Sirk, director (d. 1987)
1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1900 - Charles Richter, geophysicist, inventor (d. 1985)
1911 - Marianne Hoppe, actress
1912 - A.E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
1914 - Bernard Malamud, author (d. 1986)
1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
1934 - Alan Arkin, actor
1935 - Carol Burnett, singer, actress, comedienne
1938 - Duane Eddy, musician
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, composer
1942 - Bobby Rydell, singer
1943 - Gary Wright, singer
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Soviet politician
1947 - Donna DeVarona, Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports journalist, sports activist
1956 - Koo Stark, actress
1960 - Roger Taylor, musician ("Duran Duran")
1961 - Joan Chen, actress
1963 - Jet Li, martial arts fighter, actor
1983 - Jessica Lynch, POW rescued from Iraq in 2003

Deaths

1865 - John Wilkes Booth, shot while trying to avoid capture for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1892 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero, dies at 100
1910 - Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson, Norwegian author
1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress (b. 1911)
1970 - John Knittel, dramatist
1973 - Irene Ryan, actress
1976 - Sid James, British comedian and Carry On regular
1984 - Count Basie, musician, composer (b. 1904)
1986 - Broderick Crawford, actor (b. 1911)
1986 - Dechko Uzunov, painter (b. 1899)
1989 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne (b. 1911)
1991 - Carmine Coppola, composer, conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire, grandfather of Sofia Coppola
1991 - William Andrew Paton, accountant and economist, dies at 101
1996 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer
1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
2002 - Lisa Lopes, musician
2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., author (Last Exit to Brooklyn)

Holidays and observances

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