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, 484,896 hours 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
- 1336 –Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
- 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.
- 1944 –Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
- 1954 –The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
- 1994 –China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
Who were born on April 26?
- 1538 –Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
- 1886 –Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
- 1930 –Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
- 1961 –Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
- 1965 –Kevin James, American comedian
- 1970 –Melania Trump, Slovenian model
- 1971 –Shondrella Avery, American actress
- 1980 –Channing Tatum, American actor
- 1980 –Jordana Brewster, American actress
- 1987 –Jarmila Gajdošová, Slovakian/Australian tennis player
Who died on April 26?
- 1476 –Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
- 1489 –Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
- 1789 –Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
- 1915 –John Bunny, silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- 1936 –Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
- 1970 –Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1976 –Sid James, South African–born British comedian (b. 1913)
- 1981 –Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2009 –Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (b. 1920)
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