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26 Apr 1220
German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
26 Apr 1336
Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux
26 Apr 1467
The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano Italy
26 Apr 1478
Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo deMedici and kill Giuliano deMedici in Florence
26 Apr 1607
Jamestown expedition makes first landing in America at a place named Cape Henry in what would become Virginia but they quickly depart for a better site
26 Apr 1655
Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesants desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
26 Apr 1677
Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
26 Apr 1777
Sybil Ludington aged 16 rides 40 miles in New York to warn her fathers militia of the approach of the British
26 Apr 1828
Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greeces independence
26 Apr 1859
Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity - 1st time this defense used successfully in the US
26 Apr 1865
Battle of Durham Station North Carolina (Greensboro)
26 Apr 1865
Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee at Durham North Carolina
26 Apr 1887
Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
26 Apr 1893
1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
26 Apr 1901
Jimmy Collins having left the Boston Beaneaters (NL) captains and manages his first game for the Boston Americans (against Baltimore)
26 Apr 1904
Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
26 Apr 1904
John C Watson leads the first Labour Government of Australian when Alfred Deakin resigns
26 Apr 1904
General Kuroko leads the Japanese Army against the large Russian force at the Yalu river during the Russo-Japanese War
26 Apr 1905
Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game all were ends of a double play
26 Apr 1906
Motion pictures begin regular showings at the Orpheum Theater in Honolulu Hawaii
26 Apr 1907
Jamestown Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens
26 Apr 1912
1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley Red Sox)
26 Apr 1913
Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
26 Apr 1915
Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain France & Russia
26 Apr 1920
Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold great debate on the nature of nebulae galaxies and size of the universe at US National Academy of Sciences Washington D.C.
26 Apr 1920
Husband and wife team Ludowika & Walter Jakobsson representing Finland win the pairs skating gold medal at the Antwerp Olympics Ludowika is the only German-born athlete at the Games
26 Apr 1920
Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring 7 goals in Canadas 12-1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match
26 Apr 1925
Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for So big
26 Apr 1926
Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)
26 Apr 1933
Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
26 Apr 1935
Frank Boucher is given NHLs Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
26 Apr 1937
German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
26 Apr 1938
Austrian Jews required to register property above 5000 Reichsmarks
26 Apr 1941
A tradition begins 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
26 Apr 1942
Coal mine explosion kills 1549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
26 Apr 1944
1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters one fighter shot down
26 Apr 1945
World War II Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht
26 Apr 1949
Transjordan is officially renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
26 Apr 1950
Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md is run
26 Apr 1950
U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
26 Apr 1952
Patty Berg scores 64 best competitive round of golf by a woman
26 Apr 1952
US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp kills 176
26 Apr 1954
Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
26 Apr 1956
First modern container ship the Ideal X leaves Port Newark New Jersey for Houston Texas
26 Apr 1957
Jamestown Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens
26 Apr 1961
French paratroopers revolt suppressed in Algeria
26 Apr 1962
Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
26 Apr 1962
US and UK launch Ariel 1st international payload
26 Apr 1964
18th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat SF Warriors 4 games to 1
26 Apr 1964
Tanganyika & Zanzibar form The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar
26 Apr 1965
Charles Ives 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall New York 11 years after the composers death
26 Apr 1966
An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent Uzbekistan
26 Apr 1966
International Olympic Committee votes to award German city of Munich the right to host the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
26 Apr 1967
Hallelujah Baby opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 performances
26 Apr 1967
KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
26 Apr 1968
Students seize administration building at Ohio State
26 Apr 1968
US underground nuclear test Boxcar 1 megaton device
26 Apr 1969
Celebration closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
26 Apr 1969
George M closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
26 Apr 1969
Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
26 Apr 1970
Company opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
26 Apr 1971
Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil 15 in 24 hrs
26 Apr 1971
San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
26 Apr 1973
2 Gentlemen of Verona musical opens in London
26 Apr 1974
Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
26 Apr 1974
Yankees trade Peterson Beene Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss Tidrow & Upshaw
26 Apr 1980
Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (20901)
26 Apr 1980
Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
26 Apr 1980
Phillies Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
26 Apr 1981
Copperfield closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
26 Apr 1982
Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
26 Apr 1983
Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1200 for 1st time
26 Apr 1983
San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets 152-133 in NBA playoff game
26 Apr 1986
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
26 Apr 1986
Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
26 Apr 1987
Barbara Cook A Concert closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
26 Apr 1988
1st TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
26 Apr 1988
NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in -89 season
26 Apr 1988
NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
26 Apr 1989
AT&T announces NJs 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
26 Apr 1990
Accomplice opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
26 Apr 1990
Danny Wood of New Kids steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
26 Apr 1990
NY court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 Americas Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case
26 Apr 1992
Grand Hotel closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
26 Apr 1992
Jellys Last Jam opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
26 Apr 1992
Master Builder closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
26 Apr 1992
Metro closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
26 Apr 1992
Whos The Boss final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
26 Apr 1992
NFL Draft University of Washington defensive end Steve Emtman from first pick by Indianapolis Colts
26 Apr 1993
Shakespeare for My Father opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
26 Apr 1994
26.9C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temperature record)
26 Apr 1994
Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan 262 killed
26 Apr 1994
1st day of voting in first ever multi-racial elections in South Africa Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
26 Apr 1994
Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
26 Apr 1995
Coors Field opens in Denver Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
26 Apr 1996
Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
26 Apr 1996
Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in 34.5 million
26 Apr 2002
Robert Steinhuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
26 Apr 2003
NFL Draft USC quarterback Carson Palmer first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
26 Apr 2005
Under international pressure Syria withdraws the last of its 14000 troop military garrison in Lebanon ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
26 Apr 2007
Queens Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government after a bitter struggle by conservationists in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kongs Central district
26 Apr 2008
NFL Draft University of Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long first pick by Miami Dolphins
26 Apr 2009
55th British Academy Television Awards Harry and Paul Best Comedy Wallander Best Drama
26 Apr 2012
70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama
26 Apr 2012
Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
26 Apr 2012
NFL Draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck first pick by Indianapolis Colts
26 Apr 2013
30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan
26 Apr 2015
Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote
26 Apr 2015
35th London Marathon Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge & Ethiopian Tigist Tufa win
26 Apr 2015
FC Bayern Munich wins the 201415 Bundesliga for a 25th time
26 Apr 2016
CEO of Chobani Hamdi Ulukaya announces that he will be giving his employees 10% of the shares in Chobani
26 Apr 2017
Gift Ngoepe becomes 1st black African to play in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates
26 Apr 2018
Serial killer Golden State Killer identified after 40 years as a former police officer responsible for 12 killings 50 rapes in California
26 Apr 2018
NFL Draft 4 quarterbacks are taken in the top 10 selections for the first time in history
26 Apr 2018
NFL Draft Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield first pick by Cleveland Browns 4 QBs taken in top 10 selections for first time in history
26 Apr 2019
Six suspected militants connected to Sri Lankan terror attacks killed along with ten others in a shootout with police in Sainthamaruthu
26 Apr 2019
No religion tops survey of American religious identity for the first time at 23.1% edging out Catholics 23.0% and evangelicals 22.5% in long-running General Social Survey
26 Apr 1900
Newly renamed American League opener in Cleveland draws 6500 (still as a minor league was Western League)
26 Apr 1901
Jimmy Collins having left the Boston Beaneaters (NL) captains and manages his first game for the Boston Americans (loses 10-6 at Baltimore Orioles)
26 Apr 1915
Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London with Britain France and Russia bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side
26 Apr 1954
USSR Supreme Soviet transfer the Crimean oblast from Russian SFSR to Ukrainian SSR
26 Apr 1988
NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lpez was 1st)
26 Apr 2019
Waorani people of Pastaza win landmark environmental case against the Ecuadorian government to protect half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon rainforest
26 Apr 1865
Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders remaining forces to Union General William Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham North Carolina ending the US Civil War
26 Apr 1951
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands opens Brielsche Mausoleum
26 Apr 2021
The US the EU and other countries announce they are sending pandemic aid to India as its COVID-19 crisis continues to worsen
26 Apr 2021
US Census results shows its population growth second slowest in recorded history population at 331449281 with only 7.4% increase on 2010 [1]
26 Apr 1392
Korean Confucian scholar and statesman Jeong Mong-ju is assassinated on the Sonjuk Bridge in Gaeseong (now North Korea). A brown spot on the bridge is still said to be his blood.
26 Apr 1879
National Park (later renamed Royal National Park) established south of Sydney Australia. Worlds second-oldest national park.
26 Apr 1981
Copperfield closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
26 Apr 2022
Russia says it will stop supplying gas to Poland and Bulgaria after the countries refused to pay in rubles escalating the energy supply standoff between Russia and Europe [1]
26 Apr 2022
World Bank warns the war in Ukraine will cause the largest commodity shock since the 1970s with large economic and humanitarian effects [1]
26 Apr 1655
Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesants desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam colony
26 Apr 1859
US Congressman Daniel E. Sickles is acquitted in the murder Philip Barton Key on grounds of temporary insanity - 1st time this defense used successfully in the US [1]
26 Apr 1986
Experimental aircraft Piasecki PA-97 Helistat - a combination of 4 helicopters and a blimp - crashes during first test flight killing one pilot at US Naval Air Station in Lakehurst New Jersey
26 Apr 1999
BBC presenter Jill Dando shot and killed outside her London home - launches Metropolitan Polices largest murder enquiry crime remains unsolved [1]
26 Apr 2014
Oratorio for chorus evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life Anthracite Fields by composer Julia Wolfe premieres in Philadelphia (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2015) [1]
26 Apr 1220
King of the Germans Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
26 Apr 1859
US Congressman Daniel E. Sickles is acquitted in the murder of Philip Barton Key on grounds of temporary insanity the first time this defense is used successfully in the US [1]
26 Apr 1865
Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders remaining forces to Union General William Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham North Carolina ending the American Civil War
26 Apr 1893
First Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
26 Apr 1904
Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
26 Apr 1912
First home run hit at Fenway Park by Hugh Bradley of the Red Sox
26 Apr 1920
Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold the Great Debate on the nature of nebulae galaxies and size of the universe at US National Academy of Sciences Washington D.C.
26 Apr 1926
Germany and Russia sign a neutrality peace treaty
26 Apr 1941
A tradition begins with the first organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
26 Apr 1944
First B-29 is attacked by Japanese fighters one fighter shot down
26 Apr 1947
Vivian Ellis and A. P. Herbert musical Bless the Bride opena at the Adelphia Theatre in London runs for 886 performances
26 Apr 1962
US and UK launch Ariel the first UK satellite and the first international payload
26 Apr 1964
Tanganyika and Zanzibar form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
26 Apr 1976
Pan Am begins nonstop flights between NYC and Tokyo
26 Apr 1983
Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
26 Apr 1989
AT&T announces New Jerseys 201 area code will split into 908 and 201
26 Apr 1991
Twenty-three killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes
26 Apr 1994
First day of voting in the first-ever multiracial elections in South Africa Dr. Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is the first Black South African to vote
26 Apr 2005
Under international pressure Syria withdraws the last of its 14000 troop military garrison in Lebanon ending its 29-year military domination of the country
26 Apr 2007
Queens Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong government to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kongs Central district after a bitter struggle by conservationists
26 Apr 2024
106 tornadoes tear through Nebraska Iowa Texas Kansas and Missouri destroying hundreds of homes [1]
26 Apr 1920
Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold the Great Debate on the nature of nebulae galaxies and the size of the universe at the US National Academy of Sciences Washington D.C.
26 Apr 1993
Indian Airlines Flight 491 (Boeing 737) crashes at Aurangabad India killing 55 and injuring 63
26 Apr 1993
Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-55 launches into orbit carrying Spacelab D2 laboratory
26 Apr 1994
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes in Nagoya Japan killing 264 of the 271 passengers
26 Apr 1994
Physicists announce the first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle
26 Apr 1998
Guatemalan human rights activist Juan Jos Gerardi is bludgeoned to death by army officers in his home in Guatemala City [1]
26 Apr 2005
Under international pressure Syria withdraws the last of its 14000 troops from Lebanon ending its 29-year military domination of the country