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

## Births

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

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