History Events on April 26
![Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilter1dq8NMnIc96zgznw77md.jpg?generation=1608828430280995&alt=media)
A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
#Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant
![Baltimore and Ohio Railroad](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilter32Rtkf1G0sH6ilxWgfqk.jpg?generation=1608828430752289&alt=media)
Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
#Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad
![People's Daily](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilter708rPE1YDTI39TUSvLtA.jpg?generation=1608828431138565&alt=media)
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
#People's_Daily
![Battle of Bautzen (1945)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilter7yZwTWj9wp1FaHa1JmN5.jpg?generation=1608828431600017&alt=media)
World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
#Battle_of_Bautzen_(1945)
![Napoleon](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilter8hd0Z1dZfs8pqsrxCyfw.png?generation=1608828432398491&alt=media)
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
#Napoleon
![Syria](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterCFFYD198QlqEhbMM96ad.png?generation=1608828432848368&alt=media)
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).
#Syria
![SS Ideal X](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterHdxGSegP3EIsCcWHcAVX.jpg?generation=1608828433239093&alt=media)
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
#SS_Ideal_X
![April Revolution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterInaLj6LhqXsiPLc3fXmV.jpg?generation=1608828433639003&alt=media)
Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
#April_Revolution
![L'Aigle (meteorite)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterJ5C8k8s1oj3m2rzo8SB9.jpg?generation=1608828434030368&alt=media)
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
#L'Aigle_(meteorite)
![William Shakespeare](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterKuHsgWmGMH2avP4djAaF.jpg?generation=1608828434400443&alt=media)
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
#William_Shakespeare
![Bill Cosby](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterLMDQTTHWCLzDGvttNKIY.jpg?generation=1608828434774997&alt=media)
American comedian Bill Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault.
#Bill_Cosby
![American Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterM3MhxyduxzEd9cVjXqtW.png?generation=1608828435529276&alt=media)
American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
#American_Civil_War
![Easter Riots](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterOrksXsyPyRhL2r1oqaaS.jpg?generation=1608828435910158&alt=media)
The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
#Easter_Riots
![Sybil Ludington](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterPtthll6i0G8bUbPcEb5f.jpg?generation=1608828436316039&alt=media)
Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
#Sybil_Ludington
![Cape Henry](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterQWbgW9ilEWp8BGZlURm7.jpg?generation=1608828436679630&alt=media)
English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
#Cape_Henry
![Tanganyika](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterQYoil12fEHByDJazgkPc.png?generation=1608828437471657&alt=media)
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
#Tanganyika
![Union (American Civil War)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterThCN6Fm2HRtapZc7kEXJ.png?generation=1608828438232850&alt=media)
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
#Union_(American_Civil_War)
![Libya](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterUeRezl4sdZTzRrNaJ46o.png?generation=1608828438698136&alt=media)
In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
#Libya
![Spanish Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilterc3EXH4GX7u0ndEN059Dz.png?generation=1608828439466277&alt=media)
Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
#Spanish_Civil_War
![Daulatpur-Saturia tornado](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterfPYAb1u6fGXVNCLuKPQl.png?generation=1608828440528146&alt=media)
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
![Gestapo](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffilterg0QFWRHY6W0IvODRo97K.jpg?generation=1608828441022255&alt=media)
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
#Gestapo
![Republic of the Congo](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfiltergSzqKqkJMIAuO1TPXYgG.png?generation=1608828441807855&alt=media)
A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
#Republic_of_the_Congo
![First Barbary War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterkqIuFkTXrxOL6Dbh5jSt.jpg?generation=1608828442239756&alt=media)
First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
#First_Barbary_War
![NASA](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterktTMRtb1ZVNWjeQEbvlQ.png?generation=1608828443032336&alt=media)
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
#NASA
![China Airlines Flight 140](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterloTjCdeXRBskVdPEbG0R.jpg?generation=1608828443439027&alt=media)
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
#China_Airlines_Flight_140
![1721 Tabriz earthquake](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfiltermSFo3N9EnTeDCNS9BjlZ.jpg?generation=1608828443906872&alt=media)
A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
#1721_Tabriz_earthquake
![1966 Tashkent earthquake](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterrtsxJtHlifbKfMdyNP3m.png?generation=1608828445006481&alt=media)
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
![George VI](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2Ffiltert83vhdzixArMLUHPT0X4.jpg?generation=1608828445413084&alt=media)
The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
#George_VI
![Georgios Papandreou](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfiltervrloUaym91r6nZzhxOpg.jpg?generation=1608828445781863&alt=media)
Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
#Georgios_Papandreou
![Paul von Hindenburg](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilteryPnx31NC0JguToRgaVdO.jpg?generation=1608828446145905&alt=media)
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
#Paul_von_Hindenburg
![Petrarch](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_26%2FfilterzrhZiStTLFrHfvJmBmcy.jpg?generation=1608828446519968&alt=media)
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
#Petrarch