
April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining. ==Events== *1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano di Piero de' Medici during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. *1607 - England colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. *1865 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina. * 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, in a Barn (building) in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett. * 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election, 1925 to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic. * 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany, is established. *1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by Germany Luftwaffe. *1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. *1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. *1954 - The Geneva Conference (1954), an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. *1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. *1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. *1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. *1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only Fujita scale tornado (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 Steinhäuser Erfurt_massacre at his school in Erfurt, Germany. *2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country. ==Births== *121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180) *1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1776) *1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851) *1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862) *1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863) *1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867) *1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887) *1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (d. 1903) *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, German World War II pilot (d. 1941) *1897 - Olga Tschechowa, actress (d. 1980) *1897 - Douglas Sirk, director (d. 1987) *1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967) *1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (d. 1984) *1898 - John Grierson, filmmaker (d. 1972) *1900 - Charles Richter, geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985) *1911 - Marianne Hoppe, actress (d. 2002) *1912 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000) *1914 - Bernard Malamud, author (d. 1986) *1914 - James W. Rouse, American real estate investor, activist, philanthropist (d. 1996) *1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999) *1917 - I.M. Pei, architect *1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) *1918 - Stafford Repp American actor (d. 1974) *1918 - Stafford Repp, actor (d. 1974) *1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician and Eurovision Song Contest winner (d. 1990) *1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) *1933 - Carol Burnett, American singer, actress, and comedian *1934 - Alan Arkin, actor *1936 - Lane Smith, American actor *1938 - Duane Eddy, musician *1940 - Giorgio Moroder, composer *1942 - Bobby Rydell, singer *1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress *1943 - Gary Wright, singer *1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician *1947 - Donna DeVarona, swimmer *1956 - Koo Stark, actress *1960 - Roger Andrew Taylor, musician (Duran Duran) *1961 - Joan Chen, actress *1963 - Jet Li, martial artist and actor *1965 - Kevin James, American comedian, actor *1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer (TLC) *1976 - Jose Pasillas, American musician (Incubus (band)) *1977 - Tom Welling, actor *1980 - Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress *1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet *1983 - Jessica Lynch, American soldier *1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer ==Deaths== *1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici *1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1465) *1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838) *1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero *1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author (b. 1832) *1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician (b. 1887) *1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (suicide) (b. 1899) *1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868) *1938 - Edmund Husserl, philosopher (b. 1859) *1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) *1956 - Edward Arnold (actor), American actor *1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido (b. 1883) *1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress (b. 1911) *1970 - John Knittel, dramatist *1973 - Irene Ryan, actress (b. 1902) *1976 - Sid James, British comedian (b. 1913) *1981 - Jim Davis (actor), American actor *1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904) *1984 - Henry Rowland (actor), American actor *1986 - Broderick Crawford, actor (b. 1911) *1986 - Dechko Uzunov, painter (b. 1899) *1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926) *1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911) *1991 - Carmine Coppola, composer and conductor * 1991 - William Andrew Paton, economist *1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress *1996 - Stirling Silliphant, writer and producer *1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961) *2003 - Rosemary Brown (politician), Canadian politician (b. 1930) *2003 - Edward Max Nicholson, environmentalist (b. 1904) *2003 - Peter Stone, Oscar- and Tony-winning writer (b. 1930) *2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., author (b. 1928) *2005 - Maria Schell, Austrian-born actress (b. 1926) *2005 - Bob Schiffer, film makeup artist (b. 1916) *2005 - Mason Adams, American actor ==Holidays and observances== * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: **Saint Alda (d. 1309) **Richarius or Riquier (d. 643) **Radbertus (d. 865) **Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs) **Lucidius (4th century) **Trudpert (Ireland monk martyred in Germany in 607). * Tanzania - Union Day * Shi'a Islam - Mawlid, Muhammad's birthday (2005) * Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day * Intellectual property - World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/4/26 Today in History: April 26] ---- April 25 - April 27 - March 26 - May 26 – historical anniversaries bs:26. april th:26 เมษายน vi:26 tháng 4
--User:Maveric149 23:32, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:April 26 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:April 26 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:April_26_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved birth from article: *1989 - Ana Cecilia Montes, fighter No verification found. And anyway, what ''kind'' of fighter? She'd be 15 now... User:Lupo 10:17, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) :Google returns nothing of relevance. This sounds like patent nonsense added by an anon IP who made only one edit. Could be a fictional character, I suspect. User:Morven 17:59, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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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. ==Events== *1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano di Piero de' Medici during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral. *1607 - England colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. *1865 - American Civil War: Confederate States of America General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman near Durham, North Carolina. * 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, in a Barn (building) in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett. * 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election, 1925 to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic. * 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany, is established. *1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by Germany Luftwaffe. *1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. *1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. *1954 - The Geneva Conference (1954), an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. *1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. *1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. *1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. *1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only Fujita scale tornado (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 Steinhäuser Erfurt_massacre at his school in Erfurt, Germany. *2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country. ==Births== *121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180) *1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian (d. 1776) *1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851) *1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862) *1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863) *1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867) *1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887) *1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (d. 1903) *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, German World War II pilot (d. 1941) *1897 - Olga Tschechowa, actress (d. 1980) *1897 - Douglas Sirk, director (d. 1987) *1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967) *1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (d. 1984) *1898 - John Grierson, filmmaker (d. 1972) *1900 - Charles Richter, geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985) *1911 - Marianne Hoppe, actress (d. 2002) *1912 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000) *1914 - Bernard Malamud, author (d. 1986) *1914 - James W. Rouse, American real estate investor, activist, philanthropist (d. 1996) *1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999) *1917 - I.M. Pei, architect *1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) *1918 - Stafford Repp American actor (d. 1974) *1918 - Stafford Repp, actor (d. 1974) *1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician and Eurovision Song Contest winner (d. 1990) *1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) *1933 - Carol Burnett, American singer, actress, and comedian *1934 - Alan Arkin, actor *1936 - Lane Smith, American actor *1938 - Duane Eddy, musician *1940 - Giorgio Moroder, composer *1942 - Bobby Rydell, singer *1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress *1943 - Gary Wright, singer *1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician *1947 - Donna DeVarona, swimmer *1956 - Koo Stark, actress *1960 - Roger Andrew Taylor, musician (Duran Duran) *1961 - Joan Chen, actress *1963 - Jet Li, martial artist and actor *1965 - Kevin James, American comedian, actor *1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer (TLC) *1976 - Jose Pasillas, American musician (Incubus (band)) *1977 - Tom Welling, actor *1980 - Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress *1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet *1983 - Jessica Lynch, American soldier *1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer ==Deaths== *1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici *1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1465) *1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838) *1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero *1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author (b. 1832) *1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician (b. 1887) *1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (suicide) (b. 1899) *1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868) *1938 - Edmund Husserl, philosopher (b. 1859) *1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) *1956 - Edward Arnold (actor), American actor *1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido (b. 1883) *1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress (b. 1911) *1970 - John Knittel, dramatist *1973 - Irene Ryan, actress (b. 1902) *1976 - Sid James, British comedian (b. 1913) *1981 - Jim Davis (actor), American actor *1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904) *1984 - Henry Rowland (actor), American actor *1986 - Broderick Crawford, actor (b. 1911) *1986 - Dechko Uzunov, painter (b. 1899) *1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926) *1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911) *1991 - Carmine Coppola, composer and conductor * 1991 - William Andrew Paton, economist *1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress *1996 - Stirling Silliphant, writer and producer *1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961) *2003 - Rosemary Brown (politician), Canadian politician (b. 1930) *2003 - Edward Max Nicholson, environmentalist (b. 1904) *2003 - Peter Stone, Oscar- and Tony-winning writer (b. 1930) *2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., author (b. 1928) *2005 - Maria Schell, Austrian-born actress (b. 1926) *2005 - Bob Schiffer, film makeup artist (b. 1916) *2005 - Mason Adams, American actor ==Holidays and observances== * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: **Saint Alda (d. 1309) **Richarius or Riquier (d. 643) **Radbertus (d. 865) **Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs) **Lucidius (4th century) **Trudpert (Ireland monk martyred in Germany in 607). * Tanzania - Union Day * Shi'a Islam - Mawlid, Muhammad's birthday (2005) * Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day * Intellectual property - World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/4/26 Today in History: April 26] ---- April 25 - April 27 - March 26 - May 26 – historical anniversaries bs:26. april th:26 เมษายน vi:26 tháng 4
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--User:Maveric149 23:32, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:April 26 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:April 26 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:April_26_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved birth from article: *1989 - Ana Cecilia Montes, fighter No verification found. And anyway, what ''kind'' of fighter? She'd be 15 now... User:Lupo 10:17, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) :Google returns nothing of relevance. This sounds like patent nonsense added by an anon IP who made only one edit. Could be a fictional character, I suspect. User:Morven 17:59, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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