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Events on the 26th of April in history

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26 Apr 0757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
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26 Apr 1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
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26 Apr 1336 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
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26 Apr 1478 1st Easter
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26 Apr 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
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26 Apr 1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
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26 Apr 1478 Easter is celebrated for the first time
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26 Apr 1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
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26 Apr 1532 Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
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26 Apr 1564 Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
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26 Apr 1564 William Shakespeare baptized
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26 Apr 1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Virginia
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26 Apr 1607 English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
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26 Apr 1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
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26 Apr 1655 Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
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26 Apr 1677 Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
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26 Apr 1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
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26 Apr 1721 A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
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26 Apr 1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
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26 Apr 1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
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26 Apr 1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Connecticut rallying her father's militia
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1803 Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
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26 Apr 1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
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26 Apr 1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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26 Apr 1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
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26 Apr 1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms
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26 Apr 1819 Odd Fellows Lodge is established
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26 Apr 1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
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26 Apr 1835 Fr
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26 Apr 1841 "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
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26 Apr 1853 Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
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26 Apr 1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
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26 Apr 1865 Battle of Ft Tobacco, Virginia
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26 Apr 1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham, North Carolina
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26 Apr 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
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26 Apr 1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
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26 Apr 1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity
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26 Apr 1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
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26 Apr 1893 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
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26 Apr 1900 AL opener in Cleveland draws 6,500
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26 Apr 1900 American League opener in Cleveland draws 6,500
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26 Apr 1903 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
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26 Apr 1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
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26 Apr 1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at the plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
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26 Apr 1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
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26 Apr 1907 Jamestown VA Tercentenary Exposition opens
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26 Apr 1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
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26 Apr 1913 Panam
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26 Apr 1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
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26 Apr 1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
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26 Apr 1920 H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
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26 Apr 1923 The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
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26 Apr 1923 English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
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26 Apr 1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1926 Germany and Russia sign neutrality / peace treaty
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26 Apr 1926 Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)
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26 Apr 1926 Karachai Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1943)
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26 Apr 1928 Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London
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26 Apr 1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
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26 Apr 1931 Lou Gehrig hits a homerun but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him American League home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
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26 Apr 1932 Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine", premieres in Paris France
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26 Apr 1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
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26 Apr 1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
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26 Apr 1935 Frank Boucher is given the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
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26 Apr 1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
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26 Apr 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
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26 Apr 1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
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26 Apr 1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
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26 Apr 1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
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26 Apr 1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
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26 Apr 1942 Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
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26 Apr 1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
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26 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
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26 Apr 1943 The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
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26 Apr 1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
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26 Apr 1944 Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
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26 Apr 1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
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26 Apr 1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
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26 Apr 1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WWII, arrested for treason
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26 Apr 1947 "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
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26 Apr 1947 "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
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26 Apr 1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
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26 Apr 1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run
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26 Apr 1950 University of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
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26 Apr 1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
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26 Apr 1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp, " kills 176
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26 Apr 1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp", kills 176
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26 Apr 1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
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26 Apr 1954 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
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26 Apr 1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
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26 Apr 1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
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26 Apr 1956 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
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26 Apr 1957 Jamestown VA 350th Anniversary Festival opens
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1959 Cuba invades Panam
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26 Apr 1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
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26 Apr 1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
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26 Apr 1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
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26 Apr 1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
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26 Apr 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
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26 Apr 1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
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26 Apr 1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0
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26 Apr 1962 US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
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26 Apr 1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
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26 Apr 1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
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26 Apr 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.
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26 Apr 1964 Tanganyika andZanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika andZanzibar
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26 Apr 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
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26 Apr 1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)
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26 Apr 1964 18th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1
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26 Apr 1964 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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26 Apr 1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
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26 Apr 1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
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26 Apr 1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
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26 Apr 1966 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
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26 Apr 1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
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26 Apr 1967 "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 performances
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26 Apr 1967 KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Apr 1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
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26 Apr 1968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar, " 1 megaton device
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26 Apr 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
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26 Apr 1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
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26 Apr 1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
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26 Apr 1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
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26 Apr 1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
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26 Apr 1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
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26 Apr 1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours
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26 Apr 1971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
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26 Apr 1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
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26 Apr 1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona, " musical opens in London
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26 Apr 1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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26 Apr 1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
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26 Apr 1974 Nw York Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Cleveland Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
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26 Apr 1974 Malta adopts constitution
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26 Apr 1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1 - Quarterfinals - Isles win series 4-3
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26 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 0-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Islanders win series 4-3
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26 Apr 1975 Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 homeruns ties National League record of 11 homeruns in April
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26 Apr 1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York-Tokyo
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26 Apr 1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
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26 Apr 1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
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26 Apr 1978 France sends troops to Chad
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26 Apr 1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
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26 Apr 1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
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26 Apr 1980 Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats St Louis Cardinals)
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26 Apr 1980 Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
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26 Apr 1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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26 Apr 1981 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
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26 Apr 1981 Largest US bank robbery (Tucson, Arizona), more than $33 million stolen
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26 Apr 1981 Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
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26 Apr 1981 Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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26 Apr 1982 Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
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26 Apr 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
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26 Apr 1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
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26 Apr 1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
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26 Apr 1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
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26 Apr 1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
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26 Apr 1983 Boston Bruins 2-New York Islanders 5-Wales Conference Championship-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
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26 Apr 1983 Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1200 for 1st time
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26 Apr 1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
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26 Apr 1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
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26 Apr 1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
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26 Apr 1986 Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
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26 Apr 1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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26 Apr 1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
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26 Apr 1986 Baseball game between California Angels & Minnesota Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
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26 Apr 1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
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26 Apr 1986 France performs nuclear test
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26 Apr 1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
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26 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
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26 Apr 1988 1st TNN Viewers Choice Awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
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26 Apr 1988 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in the 1988-89 season
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26 Apr 1988 New York Mets' Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
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26 Apr 1989 People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
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26 Apr 1989 The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
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26 Apr 1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
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26 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
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26 Apr 1990 "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
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26 Apr 1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
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26 Apr 1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
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26 Apr 1990 New York court of appeals ends 2
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26 Apr 1990 Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
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26 Apr 1991 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
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26 Apr 1991 Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
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26 Apr 1991 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
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26 Apr 1991 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
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26 Apr 1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
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26 Apr 1992 "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 performances
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26 Apr 1992 "Growing Pains, " final episode on ABC TV
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26 Apr 1992 "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
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26 Apr 1992 "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
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26 Apr 1992 "Growing Pains", final episode on ABC TV
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26 Apr 1992 "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
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26 Apr 1992 "Who's The Boss", final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
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26 Apr 1992 Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
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26 Apr 1992 Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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26 Apr 1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
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26 Apr 1993 "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 performances
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26 Apr 1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
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26 Apr 1993 NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
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26 Apr 1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
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26 Apr 1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
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26 Apr 1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is 1st black South African to vote
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26 Apr 1994 26.9
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26 Apr 1994 Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
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26 Apr 1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
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26 Apr 1995 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
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26 Apr 1995 Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
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26 Apr 1996 Shaun Pollock takes 4 wickets in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
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26 Apr 1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
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26 Apr 1997 "Life, " opens at Barrymore Theater, New York City
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26 Apr 1997 "Life", opens at Barrymore Theater NYC
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26 Apr 1998 Wins Chick-fil-A Golf Charity Championship
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26 Apr 2002 Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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26 Apr 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 (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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