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| April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Event | 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. | |
| April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Mason Adams, American actor (born in 1919) | |
| April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (born in 1926) | |
| April 26th, 2005 (April 26 2005) | Death | Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (born in 1917) | |
| April 26th, 1985 (April 26 1985) | Birth | John Isner, American Tennis player | |
| April 26th, 1985 (April 26 1985) | Birth | Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya | |
| April 26th, 1975 (April 26 1975) | Birth | Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot) | |
| April 26th, 1975 (April 26 1975) | Birth | Nerina Pallot, British singer | |
| April 26th, 1965 (April 26 1965) | Birth | Kevin James, American comedian | Kevin James Quotes |
| April 26th, 1955 (April 26 1955) | Birth | Mike Scott, American baseball player | |
| April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Event | World War II: Battle of Bautzenlast successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. | |
| April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Birth | Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician | |
| April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Death | Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (born in 1871) | |
| April 26th, 1945 (April 26 1945) | Death | Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (born in 1909) | |
| April 26th, 1925 (April 26 1925) | Event | 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. | |
| April 26th, 1925 (April 26 1925) | Birth | Jorgen Ingmann, Danish musician | |
| April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. | William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
| April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Event | Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln s assassin, in Virginia. | |
| April 26th, 1865 (April 26 1865) | Death | John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (born in 1838) | |
| April 26th, 1805 (April 26 1805) | Event | United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O Bannon. | |
| April 26th, 1785 (April 26 1785) | Birth | John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (died in 1851) | |
