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.
- 1865 –Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1926 –Spanish tonadilla singer Raquel Meller appears on the cover of Time magazine.
- 1928 –Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
- 1946 –Naperville train disaster kills 47.
- 1956 –First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- 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.
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