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)