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

Events

• 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends of Mont Ventoux
• 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
• 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 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 France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1805 – United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 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.
• 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 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.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 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, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1956 – First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
• 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 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.
• 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
• 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
• 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1994 – A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing all but seven passengers, with a death toll amounting to 264. See also China Airlines flight 140.
• 1994 – Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
• 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• 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.
• 2007 – Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
• 2007 – Bronze Night in Tallinn

Births

• 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
• 570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. (d. 632)
• 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
• 1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (baptism) (d. 1616)
• 1573 – Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
• 1648 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• 1662 – Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
• 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
• 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
• 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
• 1782 – Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (d. 1866)
• 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
• 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
• 1798 – James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
• 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
• 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
• 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
• 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
• 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
• 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
• 1856 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1878 – Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
• 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
• 1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
• 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
• 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
• 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
• 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
• 1914 – James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
• 1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1916 – George Tuska, American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1917 – I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
• 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• 1924 – H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
• 1926 – David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
• 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
• 1932 – Francis Lai, French film music composer
• 1932 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian
• 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Duane Eddy, American musician
• 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
• 1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer
• 1941 – Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
• 1941 – John Mitchell, American composer
• 1942 – Claudine Auger, French actress
• 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
• 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
• 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer
• 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
• 1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
• 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
• 1946 – Wolf Kahler, German actor
• 1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor
• 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
• 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1949 – Dominic Sena, American film director
• 1954 – Alan Hinkes, British mountaineer
• 1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
• 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress
• 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
• 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
• 1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
• 1959 – John Corabi, American musician
• 1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
• 1960 – Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
• 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
• 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
• 1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
• 1961 – Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
• 1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
• 1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
• 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
• 1963 – Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
• 1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
• 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
• 1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
• 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
• 1967 – Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
• 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model
• 1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
• 1971 – Shondrella Avery, American actress
• 1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
• 1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
• 1972 – Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
• 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
• 1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
• 1974 – Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
• 1974 – Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
• 1975 – Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
• 1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer
• 1976 – Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
• 1977 – Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
• 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
• 1978 – Avant, American singer
• 1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
• 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
• 1978 – Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
• 1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
• 1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
• 1980 – Jordana Brewster, American actress
• 1980 – Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
• 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
• 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
• 1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress, famous YouTube star LG15: The Resistance
• 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
• 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English musician
• 1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
• 1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
• 1982 – Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
• 1982 – Cooper Wallace, American football player
• 1983 – José María López, Argentine racing driver
• 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
• 1985 – John Isner, American Tennis player
• 1985 – Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer (See Ya)
• 1987 – Jarmila Groth, Australian tennis player
• 1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, YouTube star lonelygirl15
• 1989 – Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang)

Deaths

• 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
• 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
• 1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
• 1478 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
• 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
• 1789 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
• 1852 – Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (b. 25 December 1771)
• 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, America's first successful presidential assassin (b. 1838)
• 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1892 – Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
• 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 – John Bunny, silent film comedian (b. 1863)
• 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
• 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
• 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
• 1946 – Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
• 1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
• 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
• 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
• 1968 – John Heartfield, German artist (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
• 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Sid James, South African–born British comedian (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1987 – John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola(b. 1910)
• 1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
• 1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
• 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b. 1983)
• 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Tanzania – Union Day.
• Florida and Georgia, USA – Confederate Memorial Day.
• World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

In the Roman Catholic Church:

• Our Lady of Good Counsel
• Saint Alda (d. 1309)
• Franca Visalta (d. 1218)
• Richarius or Riquier (d. 643)
• Paschasius (d. 865)
• Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs)
• Lucidius (4th century)
• Trudpert (Irish monk martyred in Germany in 607).

In the Russian Orthodox Church:

• Stephen of Perm – also Old Permic Alphabet Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ Steve Allen

• selected by Kalki

2005

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 26 April 1889)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius (born 26 April 121)

• selected by Kalki

2007

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ Eugène Delacroix

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman... did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ Jessica Lynch (date of birth)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

Quotes by people born on this day, already used as QOTD:

• If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  • used 16 May 2004, selected by Kalki

• A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  • used 7 August 2004, selected by Kalki

• The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  • used 16 May 2007, proposed by Aphaia

• Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  • used 16 May 2008, proposed by Aphaia

Suggestions

When you are outraged by somebody's impudence, ask yourself at once, "Can the world exist without impudent people?" It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities. ~ Marcus Aurelius

• 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (date of birth)
• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. ~ Marcus Aurelius

• 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (date of birth) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth. ~ Marcus Aurelius

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. ~ Eugène Delacroix (born April 26, 1798)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. ~ Eugène Delacroix

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born April 26, 1889)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

There are a few of us —madmen all! —who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting— ~ Morris West

• 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

No man —prince, peasant, pope, —has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. ~ Morris West

• 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ~ Morris West

• 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ Morris West

• 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West

• 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
• 4 Malakias 13:33, 07 July 2009 (UTC)

The hardest freedom to maintain is the freedom of making mistakes. ~ Morris West

• 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light. ~ Alice Cary

• 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,—
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me. ~ Ludwig Uhland

• 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

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From Familypedia

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

It is the first day following the spring equinox which cannot be Easter Sunday in Western Christianity.

Events

• 1467 - The miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy.
• 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
• 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 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 France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham.
• 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
• 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.
• 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942 - The worst mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
• 1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 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, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
• 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 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.
• 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
• 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover).
• 1992 - In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
• 1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
• 1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
• 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)
• 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
• 1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
• 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
• 1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
• 1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• 1662 - Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
• 1710 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
• 1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
• 1718 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
• 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
• 1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
• 1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
• 1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
• 1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
• 1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
• 1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
• 1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
• 1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
• 1826 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
• 1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
• 1856 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
• 1879 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1886 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
• 1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
• 1888 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
• 1893 - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
• 1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
• 1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
• 1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
• 1897 - Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
• 1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
• 1898 - John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
• 1900 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
• 1900 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
• 1910 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
• 1911 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
• 1912 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
• 1914 - James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
• 1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
• 1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
• 1917 - Sal Maglie, baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
• 1918 - Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• 1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
• 1926 - David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
• 1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1932 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
• 1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
• 1933 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
• 1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
• 1933 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1938 - Duane Eddy, American musician
• 1938 - Maurice Williams, American singer (The Zodiacs)
• 1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
• 1940 - Cliff Watson, English rugby league player
• 1941 - Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
• 1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
• 1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress
• 1942 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
• 1942 - Bobby Rydell, American singer
• 1943 - Gary Wright, American singer
• 1943 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
• 1944 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
• 1945 - Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
• 1949 - Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian football player
• 1949 - Jerry Blackwell, wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1949 - Dominic Sena, American film director
• 1955 - Mike Scott, American baseball player
• 1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
• 1958 - Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
• 1959 - Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
• 1960 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
• 1960 - Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
• 1961 - Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
• 1961 - Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
• 1961 - Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
• 1962 - Colin Anderson, English footballer
• 1962 - Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
• 1963 - Jet Li, Chinese martial artist
• 1963 - Colin Scotts, Australian-born NFL football player
• 1965 - Kevin James, American comedian
• 1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
• 1967 - Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler
• 1970 - Melania Trump, Slovenian model
• 1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer (TLC)
• 1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
• 1972 - Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
• 1972 - Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
• 1973 - Chris Perry, English footballer
• 1974 - Adil Ray, British Asian presenter on the BBC Asian Network
• 1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
• 1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
• 1976 - Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 - Tom Welling, American actor
• 1978 - Avant, American R&B singer
• 1978 - Joe Crede, American baseball player
• 1978 - Peter Madsen, Danish soccer player
• 1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
• 1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1980 - Jordana Brewster, American actress
• 1980 - Anna Mucha, Polish actress
• 1980 - Channing Tatum, American actor
• 1981 - Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
• 1981 - Ms. Dynamite, English musician
• 1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
• 1982 - Brock Gillespie, Professional Basketball Player
• 1983 - Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
• 1983 - José María López, Argentine racing driver
• 1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
• 1984 - Lee Humphrey, College basketball player
• 1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-born actress
• 1995 - Prince Mirko of Bulgaria

Deaths

• 1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
• 1444 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
• 1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)
• 1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• 1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• 1716 - John Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
• 1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
• 1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
• 1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
• 1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
• 1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• 1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1938 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
• 1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
• 1945 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
• 1950 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
• 1956 - Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
• 1964 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
• 1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
• 1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Sid James, British comedian (b. 1913)
• 1981 - Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
• 1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
• 1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1986 - Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
• 1987 - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
• 1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
• 1991 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
• 1996 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
• 1999 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
• 1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961)
• 2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
• 2003 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
• 2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
• 2005 - Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
• 2007 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Tanzania - Union Day.
• Florida and Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day.
• World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

Liturgical feasts

In the Roman Catholic Church:

• Our Lady of Good Counsel (1467)
• Saint Alda (d. 1309)
• Richarius or Riquier (d. 643)
• Paschasius (d. 865)
• Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs)
• Lucidius (4th century)
• Trudpert (Irish monk martyred in Germany in 607).

In the Russian Orthodox Church:

• Stephen of Perm - also Old Permic Alphabet Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada