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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining.

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• 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
• 1607 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• 1865 - American Civil WarThe American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as "the U. the Union," " the North," or "the Yankees"; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as "the Confederat: ConfederateThe Confederate States of America CSA also known as the Confederacy was the confederacy formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States during the period of the American Civil War. The 11 states of the Confederacy were Alabama, Arkansas, General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman ( February 8, 1820 February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, writer, and General for the Union forces in the American Civil War, best known for his capture of Atlanta, Georgia, and his March to the Sea (from Atlanta at Durham Station, North Carolina .
• 1865 - Union Cavalry corner John Wilkes BoothJohn Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 April 26, 1865) was an American actor who is most famous for being the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. A professional and extremely popular stage actor of his day, Booth was a Confederate sympathizer who was dissatisfied by t, the assassin of President LincolnAbraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was the 16th ( 1861- 1865) President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party. The election of Lincoln, who staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery, polarized the nation, in a barnA barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house animals or store vehicles, and is often found on a farm. On older style barns, the upper area was used to store hay and sometimes grain. in Virginia and cavalryman Boston CorbettBoston Corbett ( 1832 date of death unknown) was the Union soldier who shot Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Corbett was born in England in 1832. Along with his family, he moved to New York City in 1839. He eventually became a hatter in Troy, New York. shoots him dead.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942 - The worst ever mining accident occurs when 1,549 miners are killed by an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery , Manchuria.
• 1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claimed to be God, married much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
• 1954 - Geneva Conference (1954) begins: An international conference is held in Geneva in an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea.
• 1962 - Ranger program: The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The American force level in Vietnam drops to 281,400 men, the lowest number since July 1966.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from the war in May and June, reducing the authorized troop level to 49,000.
• 1986 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. Thirty-one people are killed directly by the incident and many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
• 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would record the year's only F5 tornado and 17 people will perish (see The Andover, Kansas Tornado).
• 1994 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
• 1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
• 2002 - 19 year old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people during an amok run at his Erfurt/Germany school.