About April 26
April 26, 2025 is the 116th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 297 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 26
- 1336 –Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
- 1607 –English colonists 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.
- 1923 –The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 1933 –The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1944 –Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
- 1946 –Naperville train disaster kills 47.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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