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
- 1478 –The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 1803 –Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
- 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.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1944 –Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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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