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, 28,568,160 minutes 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.
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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 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
- 1923 –The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1945 –World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
- 1954 –The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1965 –A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
- 1966 –A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- 1989 –The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
- 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).
- 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?
- 1826 –Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
- 1897 –Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
- 1926 –Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1940 –Cliff Watson, British rugby league footballer
- 1958 –Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
- 1959 –Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
- 1975 –Nerina Pallot, British singer
- 1977 –Jason Earles, American actor
- 1987 –Jarmila Gajdošová, Slovakian/Australian tennis player
- 1988 –Kimber James, American pornographic actress
Who died on April 26?
- 1920 –Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
- 1946 –Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
- 1970 –Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
- 1976 –Sid James, South African–born British comedian (b. 1913)
- 1981 –Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1987 –Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
- 1991 –Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
- 2003 –Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2005 –Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2007 –Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)
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