About April 26
April 26, 2024 is the 117th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 278 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 26
- 1478 –The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 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.
- 1803 –Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- 1865 –Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1928 –Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
- 1933 –The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1960 –Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
- 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 –A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- 1982 –57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 1989 –People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- 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 –China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- 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 ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).
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