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April 26 in HISTORY

by 26 ALEPH - 2/21/15 2:38 PM
APRIL 26 in HISTORY

Hello,

This is a Few Events Taking Place on The 26 APRIL

â—¦April 26, 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo(Church) of Florence.

â—¦April 26, 1802 "Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious migrants of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule."

â—¦April 26, 1803 "Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France"

â—¦April 26, 1865 "Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia."

April 26, 1933 "The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established."

April 26, 1937 "Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe."

â—¦April 26, 1938 "Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich, valued Jewish property is to be seized within Greater Germany at a value of approximately eight billion Reichmarks."

â—¦April 26, 1942 "The worst mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria."

â—¦April 26, 1944 "The first B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down"

April 26, 1952 USS Hobson sinks after colliding with USS Wasp; 176 lives lost

April 26, 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 Spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

April 26, 1968 "US underground Nuclear Test, ""Boxcar"", 1 Megaton device"

April 26, 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State

April 26, 1971 "Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15"" in 24 hrs"

April 26, 1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam

â—¦April 26, 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island

April 26, 1986 "In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster,31 die ."

â—¦April 26, 1986 "Kashmir-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake resulted in six people killed, about 30 injured and 85 percent of the houses damaged in the Dharmsala, India area"

â—¦April 26, 1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China

April 26, 1991 "Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak)."

â—¦April 26, 1992 "In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney KING, are found ""not guilty"". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country."

â—¦April 26, 1994 "A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264."

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RE: April 26 in HISTORY

by Anonymous - 4/25/15 10:59 AM
My birthday~ 4-26-1985

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