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What happend on 26. April in History

In our data base we found 294 events happened on 26. April:
  • 121: Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180) [category: Births]
  • 499: Xiao Wen Di, Chinese emperor (b. 467) [category: Deaths]
  • 570: Muhammad, Muslim prophet, founder of Islam (d. 632) [category: Births]
  • 1192: Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127) [category: Deaths]
  • 1336: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. [category: Events]

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  • 1444: Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378) [category: Deaths]
  • 1476: Simonetta Vespucci, Italian Renaissance noblewoman (b. 1453) [category: Deaths]
  • 1478: Giuliano de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1453) [category: Deaths]
  • 1478: The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. [category: Events]
  • 1489: Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese 9th shogun (b. 1465) [category: Deaths]
  • 1538: Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600) [category: Births]
  • 1564: Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). [category: Events]
  • 1575: Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642) [category: Births]
  • 1607: English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. [category: Events]
  • 1648: Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706) [category: Births]
  • 1697: Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer (d. 1754) [category: Births]
  • 1710: Thomas Reid, English philosopher (d. 1796) [category: Births]
  • 1716: John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and statesman (b. 1651) [category: Deaths]
  • 1718: Esek Hopkins, American navy commander (d. 1802) [category: Births]
  • 1721: A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. [category: Events]

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  • 1774: Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853) [category: Births]
  • 1782: Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1866) [category: Births]
  • 1784: Nano Nagle, Irish nun, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
  • 1785: John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851) [category: Births]
  • 1787: Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862) [category: Births]
  • 1789: Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721) [category: Deaths]
  • 1798: Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863) [category: Births]
  • 1801: Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889) [category: Births]
  • 1802: Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to FR, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. [category: Events]
  • 1803: Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. [category: Events]
  • 1804: Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876) [category: Births]
  • 1805: First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. [category: Events]
  • 1812: Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887) [category: Births]
  • 1822: Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer (d. 1903) [category: Births]
  • 1826: Ambrose R. Wright, American General (d. 1872) [category: Births]
  • 1826: George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863) [category: Births]
  • 1834: Charles Farrar Browne, American writer (d. 1867) [category: Births]
  • 1852: Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (b. 1771) [category: Deaths]
  • 1856: Joseph Ward, New Zealand politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) [category: Births]
  • 1862: Edmund C. Tarbell, American artist (d. 1938) [category: Births]
  • 1865: John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838) [category: Deaths]
  • 1865: American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states. [category: Events]
  • 1865: Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia. [category: Events]
  • 1876: Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959) [category: Births]
  • 1878: Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938) [category: Births]
  • 1879: Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) [category: Births]
  • 1881: Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
  • 1886: Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913) [category: Births]
  • 1886: Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939) [category: Births]
  • 1888: Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981) [category: Births]
  • 1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (d. 1951) [category: Births]
  • 1892: Provo Wallis, English Admiral (b. 1791) [category: Deaths]
  • 1894: Rudolf Hess, German Nazi politician and deputy (d. 1987) [category: Births]
  • 1896: Ernst Udet, German pilot (d. 1941) [category: Births]
  • 1896: Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor (d. 1967) [category: Births]
  • 1897: Douglas Sirk, German director (d. 1987) [category: Births]
  • 1897: Eddie Eagan, American athlete (d. 1967) [category: Births]
  • 1898: John Grierson, English filmmaker (d. 1972) [category: Births]
  • 1898: Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984) [category: Births]
  • 1900: Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist (d. 1985) [category: Births]
  • 1900: Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) [category: Births]
  • 1904: Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991) [category: Births]
  • 1910: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
  • 1910: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832) [category: Deaths]
  • 1911: Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
  • 1912: A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
  • 1914: Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986) [category: Births]
  • 1914: Charlie Chester, English comedian (d. 1997) [category: Births]
  • 1914: James Rouse, American real estate developer, urban planner, activist, and philanthropist, founder of The Rouse Company (d. 1996) [category: Births]
  • 1915: John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
  • 1916: George Tuska, American illustrator (d. 2009) [category: Births]
  • 1916: Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
  • 1916: Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
  • 1917: I.M. Pei, Chinese architect [category: Births]
  • 1917: Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
  • 1918: Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004) [category: Births]
  • 1918: Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974) [category: Births]
  • 1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
  • 1922: Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993) [category: Births]
  • 1923: The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. [category: Events]
  • 1924: Browning Ross, American long-distance runner (d. 1998) [category: Births]
  • 1925: Jørgen Ingmann, Danish jazz musician [category: Births]
  • 1925: Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. [category: Events]
  • 1926: David Coleman, English sports commentator and television presenter [category: Births]
  • 1926: Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) [category: Births]
  • 1927: Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
  • 1929: Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
  • 1930: Roger Moens, Belgian athlete [category: Births]
  • 1932: Francis Lai, French composer [category: Births]
  • 1932: Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian (d. 2010) [category: Births]
  • 1932: Michael Smith, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000) [category: Births]
  • 1932: William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
  • 1933: Arno Allan Penzias, German physicist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
  • 1933: Carol Burnett, American comedian [category: Births]
  • 1933: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005) [category: Births]
  • 1933: The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. [category: Events]
  • 1936: Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
  • 1937: Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. [category: Events]
  • 1938: Duane Eddy, American guitarist and actor [category: Births]
  • 1938: Wolf Kahler, German actor [category: Births]
  • 1938: Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
  • 1940: Cliff Watson, English rugby player [category: Births]
  • 1940: Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer [category: Births]
  • 1940: Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
  • 1941: Claudine Clark, American singer and composer [category: Births]
  • 1941: John Mitchell, American composer [category: Births]
  • 1942: Bobby Rydell, American singer, drummer, and actor [category: Births]
  • 1942: Claudine Auger, French actress [category: Births]
  • 1942: Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist [category: Births]
  • 1942: Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat [category: Births]
  • 1942: Sharon Carstairs, Canadian politician [category: Births]
  • 1942: Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead. [category: Events]
  • 1943: Gary Wright, American singer, musician, and producer (Spooky Tooth) [category: Births]
  • 1943: Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect [category: Births]
  • 1944: Amien Rais, Indonesian politician [category: Births]
  • 1944: Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
  • 1944: Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. [category: Events]
  • 1944: Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. [category: Events]
  • 1945: Sylvain Simard, Canadian politician [category: Births]
  • 1945: Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
  • 1945: Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
  • 1945: World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. [category: Events]
  • 1945: World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces [category: Events]
  • 1946: James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
  • 1946: Naperville train disaster kills 47. [category: Events]
  • 1947: Warren Clarke, English actor [category: Births]
  • 1949: Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
  • 1949: Dominic Sena, American director [category: Births]
  • 1949: Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995) [category: Births]
  • 1950: G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
  • 1951: Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
  • 1952: Spice Williams-Crosby, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1953: Linda Thompson, American attorney, filmmaker and founder of the American Justice Federation [category: Births]
  • 1953: Nancy Lenehan, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1954: Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer [category: Births]
  • 1954: The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. [category: Events]
  • 1955: Kurt Bodewig, German politician [category: Births]
  • 1955: Mike Scott, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1956: Koo Stark, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1956: Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
  • 1956: SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. [category: Events]
  • 1957: Michel Barrette, Canadian comedian and actor [category: Births]
  • 1957: Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese creator of karate (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
  • 1958: Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
  • 1958: Giancarlo Esposito, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1958: Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor, educator, and author [category: Births]
  • 1958: John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish peer and race car driver [category: Births]
  • 1958: Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. [category: Events]
  • 1959: John Corabi, American singer and musician (Mötley Crüe, Angora, The Scream, Union, and Brides of Destruction) [category: Births]
  • 1959: Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
  • 1960: Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran and Arcadia) [category: Births]
  • 1960: Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1960: Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. [category: Events]
  • 1961: Anthony Cumia, American radio personality [category: Births]
  • 1961: Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Replacements and Golden Smog) [category: Births]
  • 1961: Joan Chen, Chinese actress [category: Births]
  • 1962: Colin Anderson, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1962: Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian [category: Births]
  • 1962: Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer [category: Births]
  • 1962: NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. [category: Events]
  • 1963: Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player [category: Births]
  • 1963: Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor [category: Births]
  • 1963: In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. [category: Events]
  • 1964: E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
  • 1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. [category: Events]
  • 1965: Kevin James, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1965: A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. [category: Events]
  • 1966: Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese manga artist [category: Births]
  • 1966: A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. [category: Events]
  • 1966: An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. [category: Events]
  • 1967: Kane, American wrestler [category: Births]
  • 1967: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress [category: Births]
  • 1968: John Heartfield, German artist (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
  • 1969: Teresa Lewis, American murderer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
  • 1969: Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
  • 1970: Melania Trump, Slovenian model [category: Births]
  • 1970: Tionne Watkins, American singer (TLC) [category: Births]
  • 1970: Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
  • 1970: Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
  • 1970: Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
  • 1970: The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. [category: Events]
  • 1971: Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts and East to West) [category: Births]
  • 1971: Shondrella Avery, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1972: Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer [category: Births]
  • 1972: Jason Bargwanna, Australian race car driver [category: Births]
  • 1972: Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
  • 1972: Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
  • 1973: Chris Perry, English footballer [category: Births]
  • 1973: Geoff Blum, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1973: Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
  • 1974: Adil Ray, British radio presenter [category: Births]
  • 1974: Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress [category: Births]
  • 1975: Joey Jordison, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Slipknot and Murderdolls) [category: Births]
  • 1975: Nerina Pallot, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
  • 1976: Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer [category: Births]
  • 1976: Václav Varada, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
  • 1976: Sid James, South African comedian (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
  • 1977: Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player [category: Births]
  • 1977: Jason Earles, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1977: Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1977: Roxana Saberi, American journalist [category: Births]
  • 1977: Tom Welling, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1978: Avant, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
  • 1978: Joe Crede, American baseball player [category: Births]
  • 1978: Peter Madsen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
  • 1978: Stana Katic, Canadian actress [category: Births]
  • 1978: Tyler Labine, Canadian actor [category: Births]
  • 1979: Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
  • 1979: Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom, Warmen, and Masterplan) [category: Births]
  • 1980: Anna Mucha, Polish actress [category: Births]
  • 1980: Channing Tatum, American actor [category: Births]
  • 1980: Jordana Brewster, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1980: Marlon King, Jamaican footballer [category: Births]
  • 1980: Marnette Patterson, American actress [category: Births]
  • 1980: Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
  • 1981: Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer [category: Births]
  • 1981: Ms. Dynamite, English singer-songwriter and rapper [category: Births]
  • 1981: Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000) [category: Births]
  • 1981: Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
  • 1981: Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. [category: Events]
  • 1982: Brock Gillespie, American basketball player [category: Births]
  • 1982: Cooper Wallace, American football player [category: Births]
  • 1982: Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet [category: Births]
  • 1982: Jon Lee, English singer and actor (S Club) [category: Births]
  • 1982: 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. [category: Events]
  • 1983: Jessica Lynch, American army private [category: Births]
  • 1983: José María López, Argentine race car driver [category: Births]
  • 1984: Count Basie, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
  • 1985: Andrea Koch Benvenuto, Chilean tennis player [category: Births]
  • 1985: John Isner, American tennis player [category: Births]
  • 1985: Nam Gyu-Ri, South Korean singer and actress (See Ya) [category: Births]
  • 1986: Jessica Lynch, American army private [category: Births]
  • 1986: Lior Refaelov, Israeli Footballer [category: Births]
  • 1986: Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
  • 1986: Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
  • 1986: Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
  • 1986: A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. [category: Events]
  • 1987: Coke, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
  • 1987: Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress [category: Births]
  • 1987: John Silkin, British politician (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
  • 1987: Shankar, Indian composer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
  • 1988: Hazel Ann Mendoza, Filipino Actress [category: Births]
  • 1988: Kimber James, American porn actress [category: Births]
  • 1988: Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
  • 1989: Daesung, South Korean singer-songwriter, and actor (Big Bang) [category: Births]
  • 1989: Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
  • 1989: People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests [category: Events]
  • 1989: The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. [category: Events]
  • 1990: Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
  • 1990: Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model, Miss Korea 2012 [category: Births]
  • 1990: Nevin Spence, Irish rugby player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
  • 1991: Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
  • 1991: Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
  • 1991: Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
  • 1991: Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
  • 1991: Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
  • 1991: Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). [category: Events]
  • 1992: Danielle Hope, English actress and singer [category: Births]
  • 1994: Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese karate master (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
  • 1994: China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. [category: Events]
  • 1995: Daniel Padilla, Filipino Actor [category: Births]
  • 1996: Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
  • 1999: Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders) (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
  • 1999: Jill Dando, English journalist (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
  • 2002: Robert Steinhäuser German murderer, committed the Erfurt massacre (b. 1983) [category: Deaths]
  • 2002: Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. [category: Events]
  • 2003: Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
  • 2003: Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
  • 2003: Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
  • 2004: Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
  • 2005: Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
  • 2005: Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
  • 2005: Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
  • 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 ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ). [category: Events]
  • 2007: Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
  • 2009: Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
  • 2010: Urs Felber, Swiss industrialist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
  • 2011: Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
  • _: Aldobrandesca [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Confederate Memorial Day (States of Florida and Georgia) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Franca Visalta [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Lucidius of Verona [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Our Lady of Good Counsel [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Radbertus Paschasius [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Riquier [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic Alphabet Day [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Trudpert [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Union Day (Tanzania) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: Vallenato Legend Festival usually begins on this day. (Valledupar, Colombia) [category: Holidays and observances]
  • _: World Intellectual Property Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]