26 Aprile

The 26t o Aprile is the 116t day o the year (117t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 249 days ti come.

Events
 1315 – Robert the Bruce opens the first Scots Pairlament in Ayr.
 1326 – Robert the Bruce renews the Auld Alliance wi Fraunce.
 1564 – William Shakespeare is baptised.
 1865 – Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth is shot deed in a barn in Virginie.
 1923 – The futur Keeng George VI marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg is electit Preses o Germany.
 1933 – The Gestapo is creatit.
 1937 – Spaingie Ceevil War: The Basque toun o Guernica is bombed bi the German Luftwaffe.
 1942 – A minin accident in the Honleiko Colliery in Manchurie, Cheenae, kills at least 1,549 fowk.
 1960 – Syngman Rhee resigns as Preses o Sooth Korea.
 1962 – American Ranger 4 space probe enters intae orbit aroond the Muin.
 1964 – Tanganyika an Zanzibar unite tae form Tanzanie.
 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: A nuclear reactor splodes in Chernobyl, present-day Ukraine, leadin tae a major environmental disaster.
 1989 – A tornado kills at least 1,000 fowk in Bangladesh.
 1994 – Sooth Africae haulds its first free walin.
 1994 – A China Airlines plane crashes on landin at Nagoya Aiport, Japan, killin 264 fowk.
 2005 – Sirie withdraws its last 14,000 troops frae Lebanon.
 2012 – Umwhile Liberie Preses Charles Taylor is foond guilty o supplyin wappens durin Sierra Leone's Ceevil War.
 2013 – A fire at a Moscow psychiatric hospital kills 38 fowk.
 2018 – American enterteener Bill Cosby is foond guilty o sexual assault.

Births
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 188)
1564 – William Shakespeare, Inglis playwricht an makar (d. 1616)
1575 – Marie de' Medici, Queen o Fraunce (d. 1642)
1710 – Thomas Reid, Scots philosopher (d. 1797)
1785 – John James Audubon, American airtist (d. 1851)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French penter (d. 1863)
1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, Inglis pheesicist (d. 1959)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrick-born philosopher (d. 1951)
1889 – James Wordie, Scots polar splorer (d. 1962)
1894 – Rudolf Hess, German Nazi politeecian (d. 1987)
1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spaingie writer (d. 1984)
1898 – John Grierson, Scots filmmaker (d. 1972)
1904 – Jimmy McGrory, Scots fitbawer (d. 1982)
1917 – I. M. Pei, Cheenese-American airchitect
1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born American pheesicist an radio astronomer
1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian componer
1960 – Roger Andrew Taylor, Inglis drummer (Duran Duran)
1961 – Joan Chen, Cheenese actress
1963 – Jet Li, Cheenese mairtial airtist an actor
1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
1966 – Sandy Lam, Hong Kong sangster
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenie-born model an First Lady o the Unitit States
1977 – David Bagan, Scots fitbawer
1978 – Jamie McAllister, Scots fitbawer
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch sangster
1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
1992 – Lewis Toshney, Scots fitbawer
1994 – Craig Slater, Scots fitbawer

Daiths
757 – Pape Stephen II
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor an assassin o Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1910 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norse writer (b. 1832)
1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indie mathemateecian (b. 1887)
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (b. 1874)
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German pheesicist (b. 1868)
1984 – Count Basie, American muisicker (b. 1904)
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell o Croy, Scots politeecian (b. 1921)
2017 – Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)

Halidays
 Union Day (Tanzanie)
 Confederate Memorial Day (Texas an Florida)
 Day o Remembrance for the Chernobyl disaster (Belaroushie)

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