WillDekkard
04-26-2010, 03:09 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 26th
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* 1336 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends of Mont Ventoux
* 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
* 1607 English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
* 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious ιmigrιs of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
* 1805 United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
* 1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
* 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
* 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.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
* 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
* 1946 Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
* 1954 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
* 1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
* 1958 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
* 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.
* 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
* 1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
* 1966 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
* 1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
* 1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
* 1982 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
* 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.
* 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 A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing all but seven passengers, with a death toll amounting to 264. See also China Airlines flight 140.
* 1994 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
* 2002 Robert Steinhδuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
* 2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
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- April 26th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1336 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends of Mont Ventoux
* 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
* 1607 English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
* 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious ιmigrιs of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
* 1805 United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
* 1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
* 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
* 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.
* 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
* 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
* 1946 Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
* 1954 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
* 1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
* 1958 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
* 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.
* 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
* 1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
* 1966 An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
* 1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
* 1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
* 1982 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
* 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.
* 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 A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing all but seven passengers, with a death toll amounting to 264. See also China Airlines flight 140.
* 1994 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
* 2002 Robert Steinhδuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
* 2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
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