April 26

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

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Events

1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de Medici and kill his brother Giuliano[?] during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 - English colonists establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia[?] which becomes 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 and cavalryman Boston Corbett shoots the assassin dead.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1962 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1986 - In the Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes creating the worlds worst nuclear disaster[?]. 31 are killed directly by the the incident and many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.

1865 - John Wilkes Booth, shot while trying to avoid capture for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1892 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis[?], British Admiral and naval hero, dies at 100
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress
1970 - John Knittel[?], dramatist
1973 - Irene Ryan[?], actress
1984 - Count Basie, musician, composer
1986 - Broderick Crawford, actor
1989 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne
1991 - Carmine Coppola[?], composer, conductor
1991 - William Andrew Paton[?], accountant and economist, dies at 101
1996 - Stirling Silliphant[?], writer, producer

See Also: April 25 - April 27 - March 26 - May 26 -- listing of all days