26 April - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on April 26, the day number in a year is 116 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 117. April 26 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
April 26 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1478 | In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano during High Mass at the Florence Duomo. |
| 1654 | Jews were expelled from Brazil. |
| 1777 | American Revolutionary War Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode forty miles through the night to warn militiamen under the control of her father that British troops were planning to invade Danbury, Connecticut. |
| 1804 | Henry Eddington Resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| 1828 | The Commerce and Navigation Treaty was signed between Brazil and Denmark, thereby establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. |
| 1841 | The Bombay Gadget newspaper was first published on silk cloth. |
| 1865 | U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth,the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northernVirginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt. |
| 1890 | Henry Morton Stanley was inaugurated in London. |
| 1903 | Atlético Madrid became famous as Spain's professional football club. |
| 1920 | The great Indian mathematician Ramanujam died. |
| 1920 | Renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan died in Chennai. |
| 1928 | The Madame Tussauds exhibition, famous for wax sculptures, was shown in London. |
| 1933 | The Gestapo, the official secret police force in Nazi Germany, was established. |
| 1937 | Spanish Civil War-The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legionof the German Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm that causedwidespread destruction and civilian deaths and inspired one of PabloPicasso's most famous paintings. |
| 1942 | 1,549 people killed in a coal mine in Honkeko, Manchuria, China. |
| 1945 | World War II-Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended. |
| 1946 | In Naperville, Illinois, US, two passenger trains collided, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured. |
| 1955 | Kismet' closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 583 performances. |
| 1964 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with JuliusNyerere as its first president. |
| 1966 | The Tashkent city of Uzbekistan was completely destroyed by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake. |
| 1970 | The World Intellectual Property Organization came into beingwhen its charter entered into force. |
| 1975 | A bill was passed in Parliament to give statehood to Sikkim, which came into effect from 16 May. |
| 1986 | The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Chernobyl, UkrainianSSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a fire, a nuclearmeltdown, and the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 peoplearound Europe. |
| 1989 | An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square, which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests. |
| 1989 | A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh, killing an estimated 1,300 people, the deadliest tornado in history. |
| 1989 | Zad ibn Shekhar was elected as Prime Minister of JD al-Rifai. |
| 1990 | A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in China killed 126 people. |
| 1990 | VRP Menon set a world record by performing disco dance for 463 hours in a row. |
| 1993 | 56 people died after the Boeing-737 plane crashed in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. |
| 1994 | Just prior to landing at Nagoya International Airport, the co-pilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently pushed the wrong button, causing the plane to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
| 1994 | 262 people died in the crash of Taiwan Airbus A-300 in Nagoya, Japan. |
| 1995 | Baseball season was begun after a lengthy strike. |
| 1996 | 4 days long action of Jackie O’ Stuff was ended at $34.5 million. |
| 1999 | Former Prime Minister of Nepal and Nepali Communist Party President Manmohan Adhikari passed away. |
| 2002 | Expelled student Robert Steinhäuser murdered 16 people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. |
| 2005 | Troops from Lebanon were withdrawn ending its 29 year military occupation. |
| 2007 | Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots. |
| 2007 | Japanese company Sony set a business target of $ 2 billion in India by 2010. |
| 2011 | U.S. news host KATIA CORVIC announced that she will no longer host the “CBS Evening News”. |
| 2011 | 25th anniversary of Chennoloy disaster was commented by the Ukarine. |
| 2012 | President Christian Fernandez de Kirchenen’s bill was passed by Argentina’s Senate. |
| 2013 | Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England announces that the 5 pound bank note, to be circulated in 2016. |
| 2013 | In Birmingham, U.K., eleven member of terror cell are jailed for planning an attack to exceed the atrocities committed on July 7 and 9/11. |
| 2013 | A Taliban attack on a bus in southern Afghanistan killed 30 people. |
Famous Birthdays of April 26:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1931 | Bernie Brillstein / Producer / United States of America |
| 1941 | John Mitchell / Educator / United States of America |
| 1971 | Jay DeMarcus / Writer / United States of America |
| 1538 | Gian Paolo Lomazzo / Academic / Italy |
| 1977 | Samantha Cristoforetti / Astronaut / Italy |
| 1933 | Arno Allan Penzias / Academic / United States of America |
| 1900 | Hack Wilson / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1985 | John Isner / Tennis Player / United States of America |
| 1981 | Sandra Schmitt / Skier / Germany |
| 1946 | Alberto Quintano / Footballer / Chile |
| 1953 | Linda Thompson / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1970 | Melania Trump / Model / United States of America |
| 1991 | Srdjan Pejicic / Basketball Player / Canada |
| 1988 | Gareth Evans / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1976 | Luigi Panarelli / Footballer / Italy |
| 1963 | Colin Scotts / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1983 | Jessica Lynch / Soldier / United States of America |
| 1718 | Esek Hopkins / Soldier / United States of America |
| 1826 | Ambrose R. Wright / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 1967 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1798 | Eugène Delacroix / Painter / France |
| 1946 | Marilyn Nelson / Poet / United States of America |
| 1904 | Paul-Émile Léger / Cardinal / Canada |
| 1894 | Rudolf Hess / Politician / Germany |
| 1989 | Melvin Ingram / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1941 | Claudine Auger / Actress / France |
| 1958 | Giancarlo Esposito / Actor / United States of America |
| 1992 | Aaron Judge / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1926 | Michael Mathias Prechtl / Soldier / Germany |
| 1898 | John Grierson / Producer / Scotland |
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Read in Hindi : 26 अप्रैल की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं