{"id":4415,"date":"2023-04-26T04:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:49:28","slug":"history-of-26-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-26-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 26 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 26 April<\/h2>\n

1906<\/strong> – In\u00a0Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time.<\/p>\n

1921<\/strong> – Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on the radio in St. Louis, MO.<\/p>\n

1929<\/strong> – First non-stop flight from England to India was completed.<\/p>\n

1931<\/strong> – New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner.<\/p>\n

1931<\/strong> – NBC premiered “Lum and Abner.” It was in the air for 24 years.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacked on a civilian population by a modern air force.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – “LIFE” magazine was printed without the word “LIFE” on the cover.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – “Lorenzo Jones” premiered on NBC radio.<\/p>\n

1941<\/strong> – An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago,\u00a0IL.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.<\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> – Patty Berg set a new record for major women\u2019s golf competition when she shot a 64 over 18 holes in a tournament in Richmond,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n

1954<\/strong> – Grace Kelly was on the cover of “LIFE” magazine.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – The Boston Celtics won their sixth consecutive\u00a0NBA\u00a0title. They won two more before the streak came to an end.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – Students seized the administration building at Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for the first time.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79 people and injured 247.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – The world\u2019s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kyiv. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death two days after a report he’d compiled on atrocities during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war was made public.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the\u00a0NHL’s New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17 people at his former school. The student then killed himself.<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Under international pressure,\u00a0Syria\u00a0withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in\u00a0Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 American comedian\u00a0Bill Cosby\u00a0is\u00a0found guilty of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ms. Dynamite, English rapper, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez, Argentinian race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jessica Lynch, American soldier, and POW<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emily Wickersham, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Isner, an American tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andrea Koch Benvenuto, a Chilean tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jorge And\u00fajar Moreno, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ben Spina, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gareth Evans, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Melvin Ingram, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Peter Handscomb, Australian Cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Will Heard, British singer, and songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian\/Bosnian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aaron Judge, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daniil Kvyat, Russian race car driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    History of 26 April 1906 – In\u00a0Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time. 1921 – Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on the radio in St. Louis, MO. 1929 – First non-stop flight from England to India was completed. 1931 – New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[554,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-26-april","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-19d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24168,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/24168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}