April 26 Events |
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| April 26th, 2007 (April 26 2007) | Event | Queen s Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong s Central district | |
| 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, 2002 (April 26 2002) | Event | Robert Steinhauser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. | |
| April 26th, 1994 (April 26 1994) | Event | A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264. | |
| April 26th, 1994 (April 26 1994) | Event | Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle. | |
| April 26th, 1991 (April 26 1991) | Event | 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). | |
| April 26th, 1986 (April 26 1986) | Event | In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world s worst nuclear disaster. | |
| April 26th, 1982 (April 26 1982) | Event | 57 people are killed by former Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. | |
| April 26th, 1966 (April 26 1966) | Event | An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. | |
| April 26th, 1964 (April 26 1964) | Event | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. | |
| April 26th, 1963 (April 26 1963) | Event | 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. | |
| April 26th, 1962 (April 26 1962) | Event | NASA s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. | |
| April 26th, 1956 (April 26 1956) | Event | First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas | |
| April 26th, 1954 (April 26 1954) | Event | The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. | |
| April 26th, 1946 (April 26 1946) | Event | Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. | |
| 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, 1937 (April 26 1937) | Event | Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. | |
| April 26th, 1933 (April 26 1933) | Event | The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. | |
| 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, 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, 1805 (April 26 1805) | Event | United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O Bannon. | |
| April 26th, 1802 (April 26 1802) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious emigres 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| April 26th, 1607 (April 26 1607) | Event | English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. | Henry James Quotes |
| April 26th, 1478 (April 26 1478) | Event | The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. | |
| April 26th, 1467 (April 26 1467) | Event | The miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy. | |
