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Template:Linked-title is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining in the year. It is the first day following the Spring equinox which cannot be Easter Sunday in Western Christianity.

Events

• 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
• 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1802 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately 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 Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
• 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
• 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the 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.
• 1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
• 1945 - Battle of Bautzen (World War II) - last successful German tank-offensive
• 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
• 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1963 - in Libya Amendments to the constitution, transforming Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya), and allowing for female participation in elections.
• 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
• 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
• 1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
• 1999 - Last release of the Nemesis OS.
• 2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
• 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.

Births

• 2004 - Bob Jerry, Canadian Emperor (d. 2006)

Deaths

• 1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
• 1444 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
• 1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
• 1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• 1716 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
• 1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
• 1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
• 1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
• 1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• 1932 - Hart Crane, American poet (suicide) (b. 1899)
• 1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1938 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
• 1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.g 1874)
• 1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
• 1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
• 1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
• 1956 - Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
• 1964 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
• 1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Sid James, British comedian (b. 1913)
• 1981 - Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
• 1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
• 1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician, (b. 1923)
• 1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1996 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
• 1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
• 2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
• 2003 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
• 2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
• 2005 - Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Blade Icewood, American rapper (b. 1977)
• 2005 - Maria Schell, Austrian-born actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (n.1917)

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • Saint Alda (d. 1309)
  • Richarius or Riquier (d. 643)
  • Paschasius (d. 865)
  • Saint Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs)
  • Lucidius (4th century)
  • Trudpert (Irish monk martyred in Germany in 607).
• Feast day of the following saint in the Russian Orthodox Church:
  • Stephen of Perm - also Old Permic Alphabet Day
• Tanzania - Union Day.
• Shi'a Islam - Mawlid, Muhammad's birthday (2005).
• Florida and Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day.
• World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

This date in popular culture

This date is referred to in the song "2641998" (26/4/1998) by Alec Empire.

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