What are the important events that happened on April 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 26 is the 116th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 13, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,093,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecahexagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 297 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,509 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 26 Historical Events
- 1865 –Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1933 –The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
- 1962 –NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 1964 –Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
- 1966 –An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- 1981 –Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- 1982 –57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 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.
Who were born on April 26?
- 1804 –Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
- 1812 –Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
- 1879 –Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1897 –Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
- 1924 –Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998)
- 1932 –Francis Lai, French film music composer
- 1949 –Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
- 1958 –Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
- 1967 –Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
- 1977 –Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
Who died on April 26?
- 1192 –Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
- 1915 –John Bunny, silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- 1920 –Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
- 1950 –G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
- 1956 –Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1986 –Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1991 –Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola(b. 1910)
- 1996 –Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
- 2003 –Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2004 –Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
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