April 26 in history
Events on April 26
Notable events that happened on April 26 in past years.
- 2025
A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
Wikipedia article: 2025 Vancouver car attack - 2002
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
Wikipedia article: Erfurt school massacre - 1993
The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
Wikipedia article: Space Shuttle Columbia - 1989
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
Wikipedia article: People's Daily - 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.
Wikipedia article: 1966 Tashkent earthquake - 1962
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
Wikipedia article: NASA - 1956
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
Wikipedia article: SS Ideal X - 1945
World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
Wikipedia article: Baguio - 1943
The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
Wikipedia article: Easter Riots - 1925
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.
Wikipedia article: Paul von Hindenburg - 1915
World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
Wikipedia article: World War I - 1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
Wikipedia article: First Barbary War - 1794
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Beaumont (1794) - 1564
Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
- 1289
Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun. The Mamluks massacre all men they find and enslave the women and children.
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