26 April
Notable Births
Alex Sarr
b. 2005
French basketball player (born 2005)
Thiago Almada
b. 2001
Argentine footballer (born 2001)
Kirill Kaprizov
b. 1997
Russian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Amber Midthunder
b. 1997
Native American actress (born 1997)
Calvin Verdonk
b. 1997
Footballer (born 1997)
Jordan Pefok
b. 1996
American soccer player (born 1996)
Daniil Kvyat
b. 1994
Russian racing driver (born 1994)
Odysseas Vlachodimos
b. 1994
Greek footballer (born 1994)
Aaron Judge
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Delon Wright
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Peter Handscomb
b. 1991
Australian cricketer
Isaac Liu
b. 1991
New Zealand & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Jonathan dos Santos
b. 1990
Mexican footballer (born 1990)
Mitch Rein
b. 1990
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1990)
Joey Wendle
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Melvin Ingram
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Daesung
b. 1989
South Korean singer (born 1989)
Coke (footballer)
b. 1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Lior Refaelov
b. 1986
Israeli footballer (born 1986)
John Isner
b. 1985
American tennis player (born 1985)
Notable Deaths
Jerry Apodaca
d. 2023
American politician (1934–2023)
Execution of Tangaraju Suppiah
d. 2023
Singaporean hanged for drug trafficking in 2023
Klaus Schulze
d. 2022
German composer and musician (1947–2022)
Jonathan Demme
d. 2017
American filmmaker (1944–2017)
Harry Wu
d. 2016
Chinese-American human rights activist (1937–2016)
Jayne Meadows
d. 2015
American actress and author (1919–2015)
Marcel Pronovost
d. 2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Gerald Guralnik
d. 2014
American physicist (1936–2014)
Paul Robeson Jr.
d. 2014
American academic (1927–2014)
DJ Rashad
d. 2014
American musician, producer and DJ
Jacqueline Brookes
d. 2013
American actress, acting teacher
George Jones
d. 2013
American country musician (1931–2013)
Earl Silverman
d. 2013
Domestic abuse survivor and men's rights advocate
Terry Spinks
d. 2012
English boxer
Phoebe Snow
d. 2011
American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1950–2011)
Mariam A. Aleem
d. 2010
Egyptian artist (1930–2010)
Hans Holzer
d. 2009
American writer and parapsychologist
Árpád Orbán
d. 2008
Hungarian footballer (1938–2008)
Jack Valenti
d. 2007
American political advisor and lobbyist (1921–2007)
Mason Adams
d. 2005
American actor (1919–2005)
On This Day in History
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2025
A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
2025 Vancouver car attack
2015
Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
2005
Cedar Revolution: 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 (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
Cedar Revolution
2002
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
Erfurt school massacre
1999
Outbreak of CIH computer virus.
CIH (computer virus)
1994
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
China Airlines Flight 140
1994
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
South Africa
1993
The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1991
Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1991 Great Plains tornado outbreak
1989
The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
Daulatpur–Saturia tornado
1989
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
People's Daily
1986
The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Chernobyl disaster
1981
Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
Michael R. Harrison
1970
The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
WIPO Convention
1966
The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 Tashkent earthquake
1966
A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
Republic of the Congo
1964
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
Tanganyika (1961–1964)
1963
In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections.
Libya
1962
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
NASA
1962
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
British space programme