April 26

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 26. From 1900 until now. April 26 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Melania Trump (1970), Channing Tatum (1980) and Tom Welling (1977). Several movies were released around April 26 over the years, such as Forbidden Games in 1952 directed by René Clément and The Fifth Element in 1997 directed by Luc Besson.
But much more happened on April 26 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).
Florida and Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day.
Shi'a Islam - Mawlid, Muhammad's birthday (2005).
Tanzania - Union Day.
Feast day of the following saint in the Orthodox Church: Stephen of Perm - also Old Permic Alphabet Day
Trudpert (Irish monk martyred in Germany in 607).
Lucidius (4th century)
Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs)
Paschasius (d. 865)
Richarius or Riquier (d. 643)
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Alda (d. 1309)
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Events

2019 A large methane explosion at a coal mine in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine leaves 17 miners dead. (UrduPoint)
2018 The United Nations reports the discovery of five "likely" mass graves in Blukwa Centre and Maze/Waliba in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo. (News24)
2017 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): The pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces militia takes control of the mostly destroyed ancient city of Hatra in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate, following clashes with ISIL, who seized the ruins in 2014. (BBC)
2016 Syrian Civil War: A Syrian government airstrike near Aleppo kills at least five members of the Syrian Civil Defense rescue organisation. Dozens of people have been killed in Aleppo over the past few days from government airstrikes and opposition bombardment. (Reuters)
2015 Balochistan conflict: A bomb on a motorcycle kills at least 3 people and injured 20 in the town of Sibi in Pakistan's Balochistan region. (AFP via Nigeria Guardian)
2014 Five British ISAF personnel are killed in a military helicopter crash in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. (BBC)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Six police officers are poisoned and fatally shot in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan while another one is missing. (Los Angeles Times)
2012 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending his government's term and leading to early elections in June 2010. (BBC)
2009 Eleven Justice and Equality Movement members are sentenced to death for attacking Khartoum, Sudan, in 2008. (BBC)
2008 The death toll from a fire in a mattress factory in the Hay Hassani district of Casablanca rises to 55. (Reuters via ''The Washington Post'')
2007 At least 22 people, mostly insurgents, die and dozens more are wounded in several hours of heavy clashes which rage in the Somali capital Mogadishu. (Somalinet)
2006 The Governor of Puerto Rico, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, signs an executive order in which the government's budget will be exclusively used for health and security services. 43 agencies of the government will be shut down, while 15 will provide services partially. Another 60 will continue operating normally. The order is a result of the budget running dry before the end of the fiscal year. (AP via ABC News)
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 ).
2004 The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing introduces new US$50 Federal Reserve notes, incorporating color and more complex security elements.
2003 Unknown assailants fire incendiary devices on an ammunition dump in suburban Baghdad, triggering hours of explosions. American sources put the casualties at six dead and four wounded Iraqi sources state 25 wounded. U.S Army 3rd Infantry Division the 11th Engineer Battalion Charlie Co. ASP(Ammo Security Point)89 tons of confiscated munitions exploded after an enemy attack.
2002 Robert Steinhauser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
1999 British TV presenter Jill Dando is shot dead outside her home in Fulham, West London.(BBC)
1998 Wins Chick-fil-A Golf Charity Championship
1997 Life, opens at Barrymore Theater, New York City
1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1995 American baseball season begins after lengthy strike.
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is 1st black South African to vote
1993 Shakespeare for My Father opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
1992 Grand Hotel closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 performances
1991 Dinosaurs premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Accomplice opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 mph in 30 mile zone in Albany
1988 NBA approves addition of third referee in the 1988-89 season.
1987 Barbara Cook: A Concert... closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
1986 Actor / body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1984 US President Ronald Reagan visits China.
1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1981 Copperfield closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy.
1978 France sends troops to Chad.
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens.
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights, New York - Tokyo.
1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1 - Quarterfinals - Isles win series 4-3
1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province, Peru creates a natural dam.
1973 2 Gentlemen of Verona, musical opens in London
1972 The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar enters service with Eastern Airlines.
1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed.
1970 Company opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
1969 Celebration closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
1968 US underground nuclear test, Boxcar, 1 megaton device
1967 Hallelujah, Baby! opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 performances
1966 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1964 Tanganyika andZanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika andZanzibar
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.
1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
1959 Cuba invades Panam�.
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.
1957 Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run.
1948 The XP-86 prototype for the US Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier.
1947 Bless the Bride musical opens in London
1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen : last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1944 First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
1942 The Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1941 A tradition begins, first organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs).
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany.
1931 Lou Gehrig hits a homerun but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him American League home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season.
1928 Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
1926 Germany and Russia sign neutrality / peace treaty
1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for So big
1924 Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his quotdeath rayquot in London but fails to convince the British War Office.
1923 English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1920 H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae.
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia.
1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China.
1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms.
1902 Hibernian FC won the Scottish Cup 1–0 against Glasgow Celtic FC, the last time in their history they have won the competition.
1900 The Hull-Ottawa fire in Canada kills seven and leaves 15,000 homeless.
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