Today In History - April 26

1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1532 Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1564 William Shakespeare baptized
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1677 Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1709 Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 Odd Fellows Lodge forms
1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1835 Frederic Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris
1841 "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1853 Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1865 Battle of Ft. Tobacco, Virginia
1865 Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina
1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
1893 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1900 AL opener in Cleveland draws 6,500
1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens
1913 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1913 Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia
1920 H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1926 Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1932 Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1935 Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
1936 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs
1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
1942 Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 Papandreou government in Greece forms
1947 "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1950 University of Miami ends William and Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1957 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1959 Cuba invades Panama
1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
1962 U.S. and U.K. launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1964 18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1
1964 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1967 "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 293 performances
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 U.S. underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device
1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 110 performances
1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 435 performances
1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London
1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3
1975 Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 home runs ties NL record of 11 home runs in April
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1978 France sends troops to Chad
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1981 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 13 performances
1981 Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1984 President Reagan visits China
1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1988 1st TNN Viewers choice awards - Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
1988 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season
1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201
1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1990 "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 52 performances
1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal and twists his ankle
1990 New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case
1990 Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1991 "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
1991 23 killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes
1992 "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1,018 performances
1992 "Growing Pains," final episode on ABC TV
1992 "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 569 performances
1992 "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 13 performances
1992 "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1992 Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1993 "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 266 performances
1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1995 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1995 Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
1996 Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 "Life," opens at Barrymore Theater New York City

1319 Jean II
1538 Giovanni P Lomazzo
1564 William Shakespeare
1567 Nicolas Forme
1573 Marie de'Medici
1603 Francesco Nigetti
1637 Philip J van Lichtenbergh
1648 Pedro II, King of Portugal
1711 David Hume
1718 Esek Hopkins
1726 Pasquale Paoli
1776 Joan M Kemper
1782 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily
1785 John James Audubon
1787 Ludwig Uhland
1796 Auguste-Matthieu Panseron
1798 Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix
1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch
1808 Martha Finley
1812 Alfred Krupp
1820 Alice Cary
1822 Frederick Law Olmsted
1822 Jan Albert van Eyken
1827 Charles Edward Hovey
1834 Artemus Ward
1834 Horatio Richmond Palmer
1836 Erminnie Adelle Platt
1839 Cyrus Hamblin
1841 Wilhelm Scherer
1860 Alphonse M A J Ariens
1863 Arno Holz
1863 Charles Haslewood Shannon
1868 Harold Sidney Harmsworth
1868 Robert Herrick
1873 Otto zur Linde
1874 J H "Biddy" Anderson
1878 Ethel Griffies
1879 Owen Williams Richardson
1880 Mikhail Fokine
1884 Harry Sothern
1886 Ma Rainey
1888 Aleksandr Mikhailov
1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein
1890 Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy
1893 Anita Loos
1894 Rudolf Hess
1897 Olga Chekova
1898 Edward PF Eagan
1898 John Grierson
1898 Vicente Aleixandre
1899 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
1900 Charles Richter
1900 Douglas Sirk
1900 James Sutherland
1903 Geoffrey Worthington
1903 Niven Busch
1904 Paul E "Cardinal" Leger
1904 William "Count" Basie
1905 Denis O'Dea
1905 Jean Vigo
1906 Gracie Allen
1906 Leopold Spinner
1907 Theun de Vries
1909 Richard Howorth
1910 Erland von Koch
1910 Ernst Tittel
1910 Johan Doorn
1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka
1914 Bernard Malamud
1914 Charlie Chester
1914 Horace Leonard Gold
1914 James William Rouse
1914 Wilfred Howard Mellers
1916 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk
1916 Morris L. West, born in Australia
1917 I. M. Pei, born in Canton
1917 Sal "The Barber" Maglie
1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen
1918 Jack Morpurgo
1918 Stafford Repp
1920 Juan .C Lampe
1921 Harry Knutton
1921 Jimmy Giuffre
1921 Margaret Gowing
1922 James Holt
1922 Jeanne Sauve
1922 Margaret Scott
1922 Mike Kellin
1922 Paul-Andre Gaillard
1922 Pol Bury
1923 Oliver Millar
1924 Russell Nype
1926 Anton PO Ekstrom
1926 David Coleman
1926 Michael Joughin
1926 Oldrich Frantisek Korte
1926 Preston "Bob" Tisch
1927 Anne McLaren
1927 Jack Douglas
1928 Gordon Downey
1928 Hertha Kraftner
1930 Derek Waring
1930 Justin Gosling
1930 Roger Moens
1933 Carol Burnett
1934 J Micheal McCloskey
1936 Edward Cazalet
1937 Robert Boozer
1938 Duane Eddy
1938 Maurice Williams
1938 Willie Wood
1939 Roger Buckley
1940 Giorgio Moroder
1941 John Battle
1942 Bobby Rydell
1942 Claudine Auger
1942 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko
1943 Claudine Auger
1943 Gary Wright
1944 David O'B Martin
1944 Martha Rockwell
1945 Giorgio Moroder
1945 V K Ramaswamy
1947 Donna Elizabeth De Varona
1947 Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops
1948 Boyd Matson
1948 Gerry Sikorski
1948 Stevie Nicks
1949 Jimmy Hall
1950 Howard "Leon" Reeder
1950 Peter Schaufuss
1951 Lynne Jones
1952 Popo Simon Molefe
1956 Koo Stark
1958 Giancarlo Esposito
1958 Johnny "Earl of" Dumfries
1959 Ann O'Neill
1960 Roger Taylor
1961 Albert Lawrence
1961 Joan Chen
1961 Nancy Scranton
1962 Graham "Skin" Skinner
1962 Michael Damian
1963 Bill Wennington
1963 Michael Damian
1963 Thomas Searle
1963 Jet Li
1964 Tod Bass
1966 Andrea Temesvari
1967 Klaus Merk
1967 Matt Peterson
1968 Ahmed Elmaghraby
1971 Ryan Yarborough
1972 Francisco Cordova
1972 Marco Rivera
1972 Natrone Means
1973 Damien Munoz
1973 Mark Davis
1973 Tracy Kathleen Hayes
1975 Jabbar Threats
1975 Trudi Ferguson
1976 Sarah Tueting
1979 Sean Fox
1980 Jordana Brewster
1980 Marne Patterson
1984 Ryan O'Donohue