26 Aprile
The 26t o Aprile is the 116t day o the year (117t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 249 days ti come.
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Events
- 1315 – Robert the Bruce opens the first Scots Pairlament in Ayr.
- 1326 – Robert the Bruce renews the Auld Alliance wi Fraunce.
- 1564 – William Shakespeare is baptised.
- 1865 – Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth is shot deed in a barn in Virginie.
- 1923 – The futur Keeng George VI marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
- 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg is electit Preses o Germany.
- 1933 – The Gestapo is creatit.
- 1937 – Spaingie Ceevil War: The Basque toun o Guernica is bombed bi the German Luftwaffe.
- 1942 – A minin accident in the Honleiko Colliery in Manchurie, Cheenae, kills at least 1,549 fowk.
- 1960 – Syngman Rhee resigns as Preses o Sooth Korea.
- 1962 – American Ranger 4 space probe enters intae orbit aroond the Muin.
- 1964 – Tanganyika an Zanzibar unite tae form Tanzanie.
- 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: A nuclear reactor splodes in Chernobyl, present-day Ukraine, leadin tae a major environmental disaster.
- 1989 – A tornado kills at least 1,000 fowk in Bangladesh.
- 1994 – Sooth Africae haulds its first free walin.
- 1994 – A China Airlines plane crashes on landin at Nagoya Aiport, Japan, killin 264 fowk.
- 2005 – Sirie withdraws its last 14,000 troops frae Lebanon.
- 2012 – Umwhile Liberie Preses Charles Taylor is foond guilty o supplyin wappens durin Sierra Leone's Ceevil War.
- 2013 – A fire at a Moscow psychiatric hospital kills 38 fowk.
- 2018 – American enterteener Bill Cosby is foond guilty o sexual assault.
Births
- 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 188)
- 1564 – William Shakespeare, Inglis playwricht an makar (d. 1616)
- 1575 – Marie de' Medici, Queen o Fraunce (d. 1642)
- 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scots philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1785 – John James Audubon, American airtist (d. 1851)
- 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French penter (d. 1863)
- 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrick-born philosopher (d. 1951)
- 1889 – James Wordie, Scots polar splorer (d. 1962)
- 1894 – Rudolf Hess, German Nazi politeecian (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spaingie writer (d. 1984)
- 1898 – John Grierson, Scots filmmaker (d. 1972)
- 1904 – Jimmy McGrory, Scots fitbawer (d. 1982)
- 1917 – I. M. Pei, Cheenese-American airchitect
- 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born American pheesicist an radio astronomer
- 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian componer
- 1960 – Roger Andrew Taylor, Inglis drummer (Duran Duran)
- 1961 – Joan Chen, Cheenese actress
- 1963 – Jet Li, Cheenese mairtial airtist an actor
- 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
- 1966 – Sandy Lam, Hong Kong sangster
- 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenie-born model an First Lady o the Unitit States
- 1977 – David Bagan, Scots fitbawer
- 1978 – Jamie McAllister, Scots fitbawer
- 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
- 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch sangster
- 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
- 1992 – Lewis Toshney, Scots fitbawer
- 1994 – Craig Slater, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 757 – Pape Stephen II
- 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor an assassin o Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
- 1910 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norse writer (b. 1832)
- 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indie mathemateecian (b. 1887)
- 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (b. 1874)
- 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German pheesicist (b. 1868)
- 1984 – Count Basie, American muisicker (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell o Croy, Scots politeecian (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)
Halidays
- Union Day (Tanzanie)
- Confederate Memorial Day (Texas an Florida)
- Day o Remembrance for the Chernobyl disaster (Belaroushie)
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