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The following events took place on April 26. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 41 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1336

  Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
• 1478

  The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
• 1564

  Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
• 1607

  English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1721

  A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
• 1802

  Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1803

  Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
• 1805

  First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1865

  American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• 1865

  Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1903

  Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
• 1923

  The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• 1925

  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.
• 1933

  The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937

  Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942

  Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
• 1943

  The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
• 1944

  Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1944

  Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
• 1945

  World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 1945

  World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
• 1954

  The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1956

  SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• 1958

  Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1960

  Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
• 1962

  NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1963

  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.
• 1964

  Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1965

  A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 1966

  An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.

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