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
- 1478 –The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 1607 –English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 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 –American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.
- 1923 –The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 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.
- 1926 –Spanish tonadilla singer Raquel Meller appears on the cover of Time magazine.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- 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.
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