Notable Historical Events on April 26th
April 26th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
757 |
Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I |
1220 |
German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights |
1336 |
Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux |
1467 |
The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. |
1478 |
Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo de'Medici & kill Giuliano de'Medici |
1514 |
Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn |
1532 |
Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna |
1607 |
1st British colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia |
1654 |
Jews are expelled from Brazil |
1655 |
Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam |
1677 |
Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck |
1755 |
1st Russian university opens (Moscow) |
1777 |
Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia |
1803 |
Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France |
1814 |
King Louis XVIII lands at Calais from England |
1819 |
Odd Fellows Lodge forms |
1828 |
Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence |
1835 |
Frederic Chopin's "Grand Polonaise Brillante" premieres in Paris |
1841 |
"Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk |
1848 |
Alfred Russel Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region |
1853 |
Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber |
1855 |
Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy |
1859 |
Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity - 1st time this defense used successfully in the US |
1865 |
Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro) |
1865 |
Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA |
1865 |
Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham NC |
1887 |
Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity |
1890 |
Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London |
1893 |
1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms |
1900 |
AL opener in Cleve draws 6,500 |
1904 |
Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms |
1904 |
John C Watson leads the first Labour Government of Australian when Alfred Deakin resigns; Watson himself will resign in August |
1904 |
General Kuroko leads the Japanese Army against the large Russian force at the Yalu river during the Russo-Japanese War |
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 |
1906 |
1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii |
1907 |
Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens |
1912 |
1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox) |
1913 |
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF |
1913 |
Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China |
1915 |
Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia |
1920 |
Harlow Shapley & Heber D. Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae, dalaxies and size of universe at US National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. |
1925 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" |
1926 |
Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty |
1926 |
Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943) |
1928 |
Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London |
1929 |
1st non-stop England to India flight lands |
1931 |
Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season |
1932 |
Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine" premieres in Paris |
1933 |
Jewish students are barred from school in Germany |
1935 |
Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years |
1936 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony |
1937 |
German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain |
1938 |
Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks |
1941 |
A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs) |
1941 |
Potatoes rationed in Holland |
1942 |
Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria |
1942 |
Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
1944 |
1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down |
1944 |
Papandreou government in Greece forms |
1945 |
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
1945 |
World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. |
1947 |
"Bless the Bride" musical opens in London |
1950 |
Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run |
1950 |
U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82 |
1951 |
Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum |
1952 |
Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman |
1952 |
US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp, kills 176 |
1954 |
Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva |
1954 |
Nationwide test of salk anti-polio vaccine begins |
1954 |
The Japanese film "Seven Samurai", starring Toshiro Mifune, is released |
1956 |
First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas |
1957 |
Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens |
1959 |
Cuba invades Panama |
1959 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
1961 |
French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria |
1961 |
Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961 |
1962 |
1st Lockheed A-12 flies |
1962 |
Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite) |
1962 |
Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon |
1962 |
Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0 |
1962 |
US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload |
1964 |
18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 1 |
1964 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1964 |
Tanganyika & Zanzibar form The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar |
1965 |
Ives' 4th Symphony premieres |
1966 |
Red Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach |
1966 |
An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
1967 |
"Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 perfs |
1967 |
KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch) |
1968 |
Students seize administration building at Ohio State |
1968 |
US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device |
1969 |
"Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances |
1969 |
"George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances |
1969 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman |
1970 |
"Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances |
1971 |
Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs |
1971 |
SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy |
1971 |
Turkey state of siege proclaimed |
1973 |
"2 Gentlemen of Verona" musical opens in London |
1973 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1974 |
Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam |
1974 |
Malta adopts constitution |
1974 |
Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw |
1975 |
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal |
1975 |
Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3 |
1975 |
Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April |
1976 |
Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo |
1977 |
NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens |
1978 |
France sends troops to Chad |
1978 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-201 |
1980 |
Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01) |
1980 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy |
1980 |
Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120 feet |
1980 |
Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards) |
1981 |
"Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances |
1981 |
Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
1982 |
Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island |
1982 |
CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio |
1982 |
Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time |
1982 |
Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche |
1983 |
Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
1983 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time |
1983 |
San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game |
1984 |
Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens |
1984 |
President Reagan visits China |
1986 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman |
1986 |
France performs nuclear test |
1986 |
Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds |
1986 |
World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, contamination reach much of Western Europe |
1987 |
"Barbara Cook: A Concert" closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 perfs |
1988 |
1st TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories |
1988 |
NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season |
1988 |
NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st) |
1989 |
AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201 |
1989 |
Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany |
1990 |
"Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances |
1990 |
126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China |
1990 |
Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle |
1990 |
NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case |
1990 |
Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters |
1991 |
"Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV |
1991 |
23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes |
1991 |
Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics |
1992 |
"Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 perfs |
1992 |
"Growing Pains" final episode on ABC TV |
1992 |
"Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances |
1992 |
"Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances |
1992 |
"Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances |
1992 |
"Who's The Boss" final episode after 8 years on ABC TV |
1992 |
Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously |
1992 |
Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
1992 |
Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base |
1993 |
"Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs |
1993 |
Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56 |
1993 |
NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman |
1993 |
STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit |
1994 |
26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record) |
1994 |
Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed |
1994 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote |
1994 |
Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle. |
1995 |
Baseball season begins after lengthy strike |
1995 |
Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings |
1996 |
Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H |
1996 |
Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million |
1997 |
"Life" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC |
2002 |
Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
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. |
2007 |
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 |
2012 |
70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama |
2012 |
Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California |
2013 |
30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan |
2015 |
Rare Honus Wagner Card Sells for $1.32 Million at Robert Edward Auctions |
2016 |
Sales soar for late singer Prince as his music tops Billboard charts |
2016 |
John Ridsdel: Hostage from Canada killed in Philippines |
2017 |
US moves THAAD anti-missile to South Korean site, sparking protests |
2017 |
NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. to retire at end of season |
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