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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
- 1865 –Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1946 –Naperville train disaster kills 47.
- 1966 –An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- 1982 –57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 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).
Who were born on April 26?
- 1774 –Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
- 1826 –George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
- 1960 –Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
- 1962 –Colin Anderson, British footballer
- 1989 –Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang)
Who died on April 26?
- 1940 –Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
- 1989 –Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991 –Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
- 1996 –Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
- 2010 –Urs Felber, Swiss industrialist (b. 1942)
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