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 117th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 13, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,714,089,600 seconds 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 ‘hectadecaheptagon’ day.
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 278 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 4,144 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 26 Historical Events
- 1336 –Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1956 –First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- 1960 –Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
- 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.
- 1966 –An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- 1970 –The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
- 1981 –Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- 1994 –China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- 2002 –Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
Who were born on April 26?
- 121 –Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
- 1900 –Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1941 –Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
- 1941 –John Mitchell, American composer
- 1958 –Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
- 1959 –John Corabi, American musician
- 1967 –Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
- 1973 –Chris Perry, British footballer
- 1974 –Adil Ray, British radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
- 1980 –Anna Mucha, Polish actress
Who died on April 26?
- 1192 –Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
- 1716 –John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
- 1865 –John Wilkes Booth, American assassin (b. 1838)
- 1892 –Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
- 1968 –John Heartfield, German artist (b. 1891)
- 1969 –Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
- 1986 –Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
- 1999 –Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
- 2003 –Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
- 2005 –Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
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