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History on the 26th of April

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26 Apr 1518 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther stated in his Disputation at Heidelberg: 'Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes.'
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26 Apr 1834 RELIGIOUS Birth of Horatio R. Palmer, American Congregational clergyman. From his books of religious verse came two hymns which are still sung today: "Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts" and "My Faith Looks Up to Thee."
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26 Apr 1877 RELIGIOUS The residents of Minnesota observed a statewide day of prayer, asking for deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers that had been ravishing their farm crops this year. (The plague ended soon after, in the summer.)
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26 Apr 1912 WW2 Lieutenant General Yasumasa Fukushima succeeded General Baron Yoshimasa Oshima as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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26 Apr 1915 WW2 British Second Lieutenant W. B. Moorhouse RFC was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after his B.E.2c was shot down during a raid over Courtrai, Belgium. 
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26 Apr 1915 WW2 Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary but not Germany. 
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26 Apr 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was awarded the Military Cross award. 
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26 Apr 1923 WW2 Prince Albert, Duke of York, married the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Apr 1926 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt announced the purchase of the Meriwether Inn in Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. 
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26 Apr 1933 WW2 Hermann Göring established the Gestapo as a small Prussian secret police organization. 
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26 Apr 1934 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan. 
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26 Apr 1937 WW2 Operation Rügen: German and Italian bombers attacked the Spanish city of Guernica, killing between 200 and 1,000 civilians. 
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26 Apr 1938 WW2 Germany enacted a law that required authorization for Jews to sell or rent a company. 
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26 Apr 1939 WW2 USS Astoria departed Yokohama, Japan. 
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26 Apr 1939 WW2 Troops of the Chinese 3rd and 9th War Areas breached into southern Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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26 Apr 1939 WW2 German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt captured the world air speed record with a specially prepared Me 209 (later named Me 109R by Nazi propaganda agents) aircraft. The aircraft reached a speed of 469.22 miles per hour, just beating the record set by the Heinkel He H00-V8. 
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26 Apr 1939 WW2 The US Army Air Corps placed an order for 524 P-40 fighters; it was the largest contract to date at the value of US$13,000,000. 
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26 Apr 1940 WW2 Gladiator biplanes based out of Stetnesmoen, Norway intercepted a group of German He 111 bombers, downing one of them; this RAF unit would run out of fuel and ammunition by the end of this engagement, however. Adolf Hitler, unhappy that the British 15th Brigade was able to land in Norway without German interference, ordered Åndalsnes, Norway to be bombed the entire day; part of the British 15th Brigade's supplies were destroyed by the bombing while they continued to hold their line against attacks by the German 196th Division at Kvam, 172 kilometers from Åndalsnes. In the evening, the British 15th Brigade fell back 3 kilometers to form a new line at Kjorem. 
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26 Apr 1940 WW2 German submarine U-13 torpedoed and sank British steamer Lily at 0117 hours, killing the entire crew of 24. 
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26 Apr 1940 WW2 Satisfied with the progress in Norway, Adolf Hitler ordered his generals to resume planning for the invasion of France. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 German troops attack British and Australian positions at Halfaya Pass on the Libyan-Egyptian border. Allied troops held the pass all day, but after dark they withdrew to Buq Buq, Egypt. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 German paratroopers attacked the Corinth Canal bridge in Greece early in the morning; the bridge was blown up as the German approached; by the end of the day, however, German engineers would erect temporary crossings at this point of the canal. Overnight, 8,300 Allied troops were evacuated from beaches south of Athens while 12,950 were evacuated from beaches on the Peloponnese Peninsula. German aircraft sank Greek torpedo boat Kydonia and 3 other ships on this date. To the north in Yugoslavia, British destroyer HMS Defender evacuated the crown jewels of Yugoslavia. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 General Georgy Zhukov, the recently appointed Soviet Chief of Staff, ordered a creeping mobilization to begin, in response to widespread evidence that German forces were moving eastward. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 General MacArthur issued his third plan for the seizure of the New Britain, New Guinea, and New Ireland area, emphasizing cooperation between the US Army and US Navy as the two services each moved toward the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 The German Nachtjagdfliegerdienst nightfighter unit scored its 100th night kill. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 General Lord Gort was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 South African 1st Brigade captured Dessie, Abyssinia, taking 4,000 Italians as prisoners of war. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived at Mombasa, Kenya. 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 Wolfgang Falck, stationed at Deelen in the Netherlands, was ordered to attend a meeting at Hamburg, Germany. He would use the opportunity to learn more about new aircraft-mounted radar systems under development: Morgenstern, Flensburg, and SN-2 (Lichtenstein). 
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26 Apr 1941 WW2 British freighters Clan Chattan, Clan Campbell, Clan Lamont, Empire Song, and New Zealand Star, carrying 295 tanks for Egypt, departed from the Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom in Operation Tiger. They were escorted by battleship HMS Rodney, cruiser HMS Naiad, destroyer HMS Havelock, destroyer HMS Hesperus, and destroyer Harvester. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Luftwaffe bombers conducted a raid on Bath, England. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Tautog sank Japanese submarine RO-30. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was promoted to the rank of colonel general. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-66 sank US ship Alcoa Partner 80 miles north of Bonaire in the Caribbean Sea at 0830 hours; 10 were killed, 25 survived. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Destroyer USS Sturtevant departed Key West, Florida, United States at 1520 hours to make rendezvous with a convoy sailing from New Orleans, United States; at about 1720 hours, 18 miles north of Key West, Sturtevant struck three mines previously laid by USS Miantonomah and sank; 20 were killed, 132 survived. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 In Burma, the Indian 17th Division moved from Mahlaing to Meiktila, 20 miles to the south, to assist the Chinese 200th Division in forming a line of defense against the Japanese attack on Mandalay. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 8 Pe-3 bombers of No. 2 Squadron of Soviet 95th Fighter Aviation Regiment attacked the German airfield at Heybukten, Finland, destroying 6 German aircraft; en route home, the Soviet bombers were intercepted by German Bf 109 fighters; 5 Pe-3 bombers were shot down. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 A law passed by the German Reichstag granted Hitler the right to change laws by decree without discussion by the Reichstag. The German dictator had now been given complete despotic power and Germany has ceased to be a state whose structure was based on the rule of law. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Five prisoners of war escaped from the military hospital at Gnaschwitz, Germany. Four would be recaptured, but the fifth, Belgian Captain Louis Rémy would make it to Algeciras, Spain. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 106 British bombers attacked Rostock, Germany for the fourth and final night in a row, causing damage in the town and the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory. 1 Stirling, 1 Wellington, and 1 Whitley bombers were lost during this attack. At the end of the four-day attack, Rostock suffered 1,765 buildings destroyed, 204 civilians killed, and 89 civilians injured. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-15, consisted of 24 merchant ships, 1 fleet auxiliary oiler, and 2 icebreakers departed Reykjavík, Iceland for Murmansk, Russia with 4 destroyers, 1 corvette, 3 minesweepers, 4 trawlers, 1 catapult aircraft merchantman, and 1 anti-aircraft ship in escort. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 HMS Edinburgh embarked 5 tons of Soviet gold worth about £5,000,000 at Murmansk, Russia; it was meant to be the down payment for US war goods. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 The PPS submachine gun began to be tested. 
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26 Apr 1942 WW2 US Navy Admirals Nimitz and King met in San Francisco, California to discuss Nimitz's plan in the South Pacific. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 RAF bombers conducted a raid against Duisburg, Germany. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for transport Noshiro Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 The No. 5 Column of the Chindits arrived in Imphal, India. Only 95 men of the original force of 318 returned. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo reconnoitered Matsuwa (now Matua), Kurile Islands, taking photographs of the Japanese airfield and other facilities. 
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26 Apr 1943 WW2 Jürgen Stroop reported that, in the effort to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto in Poland, 1,330 Jews had been pulled out of their strongholds and killed, 662 were killed in combat, and 30 were captured and sent to concentration camps. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 Georgios Papandreou became the new Prime Minister of Greece after his predecessor resigned. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 Pétain made his first and only visit to Paris, France to inspect damage from Allied bombings. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 Heinrich Kreipe was kidnapped by British operatives at Archanes, Crete, Greece. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 Prince Takahito's daughter Princess Yasuko was born. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 Hamazasp Babadzhanian was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. 
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26 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at New York, New York, United States. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod had a fire in the aft torpedo room, but it was extinguished before causing serious damage; one sailor was lost, drowning after being washed overboard. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 20,000 German troops at Pillau, East Prussia, Germany (now Baltiysk, Russia) surrendered after two weeks of heavy fighting. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 The garrison at Bremen, Germany surrendered to British and Canadian forces. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Regensburg, Germany. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 German 9.Armee was cut off in the Halbe pocket in eastern Germany. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured Brno, Czechoslovakia. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet forces captured Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Japan attempted to negotiate with the Soviet Union to maintain friendly status. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Petain was arrested at the Swiss border. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Macabi arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 43 variant design efforts completed. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 17th Division reached Daiku, Burma. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 At Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany, Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall and was named by Hitler as Hermann Göring's replacement. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 General Walther Wenck's German 12.Armee started to move in an attempt to relieve Berlin, Germany, but this attempt was repulsed by Soviet forces. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Oberstleutnant Heinz Bär was appointed to command Luftwaffe jet fighter unit JV 44 in place of the wounded Adolf Galland. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Hanna Reitsch attempted to convince Magda Goebbels at the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany to let her take the Goebbels children to safety, but Goebbels refused to yield. In the evening, Adolf Hitler gave Reitsch a vial of poison before sending her on a mission out of Berlin, in case of her capture by the Soviets. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Shortly after Adolf Galland (Jagdverband 44) attacked and shot down US B-26 bombers, his Me 262 jet fighter was shot down by Lieutenant James Finnegan's P-47D Thunderbolt fighter (US 50th Fighter Group). Galland crash landed safely at München-Riem Airfield in southern Germany, though sustaining wounds. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 German pilot Eduard Schallmoser's Me 262 jet fighter was shot down by an American fighter. Amazingly, he parachuted into his mother's garden, who told him to clean up while she cooked him dinner. Schallmoser would return to base on the next day. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Robert Clark, flying in a P-47 fighter, shot down a German Me 262 fighter of Jagdverband 44. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Herbert Philo, flying a P-47 fighter, shot down a German Me 262 fighter. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 31 departed. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army captured Verona, Italy while Italian partisans took over Genoa and started an uprising in Milan. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 Brazilian scouts detected German troops near Collecchio, Italy; Brazilian infantry supported by US tanks attacked at 1930 hours. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 In Japan, 464 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan south of the Imperial Palace. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Whale completed her repairs and overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at Midway, ending her first war patrol. 
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26 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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26 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Missouri departed Piraeus, Greece. 
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26 Apr 1947 WW2 Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad at Nanjing, China. 
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26 Apr 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad on Mount Yuhuatai in Nanjing, China. 
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26 Apr 1955 RELIGIOUS The Roman Catholic religious program "Life is Worth Living" aired for the last time over Dumont television. Premiering in 1952, it was hosted by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, who won an Emmy during its first year of broadcast for being "the most outstanding personality" on television.
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26 Apr 1956 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in "Letters to an American Lady": 'One of the many reasons for wishing to be a better Christian is that, if one were, one's prayers for others might be more effectual.'
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