- 1805
- قوات مشاة البحرية الأمريكية بقيادة الملازم أول "بريسلي أوبانون" تحتل
مدينة درنة بليبيا في حربها ضد والي طرابلس يوسف باشا القره مانلي. - 1828
- الإمبراطورية الروسية تعلن الحرب على الدولة العثمانية وتتمكن من
إخراجهم من السواحل الشرقية للبحر الأسود، وتحتل رومانيا التي كانت تابعة
للعثمانيين. - 1865 -
- قوات الفرسان الاتحادية تلقي القبض على جون ويلكس بوث قاتل الرئيس أبراهام لينكون بحضيرة في فيرجينيا.
- الجنرال جوزيف جونستون التابع لقوات الاتحاد يستسلم بجيشه إلى الجنرال ويليام شيرمان في منطقة "بينيت" قرب "دورهام"في كارولاينا الشمالية وذلك أثناء الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية.
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- الفاشيون الإسبان يقصفون بلدة غيرنايكا بقنابل تزن 200 كجم ويبيدونها،
قاد القصف الجنرال دافيلا بمساعدة سلاح الجو النازي الألماني.
المتحدة إلى دولة واحدة تحت اسم المملكة الليبية، والسماح للمرأة
بالانتخاب.
- سوريا تسحب آخر جنودها من قواتها العسكرية العاملة في لبنان وذلك تحت
الضغط الدولي، منهية بذلك 29 عامًا من الوجود العسكري السوري فيه.
- مفوضية الانتخابات السودانية تعلن فوز الرئيس عمر البشير بولاية رئاسية
جديدة بعد حصولة على ما نسبته 68% من أصوات الناخبين، كما أعلنت عن فوز
زعيم الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان سيلفا كير برئاسة حكومة جنوب السودان
بعد حصوله على ما نسبته 92.99% من الأصوات.
- 121 - ماركوس أوريليوس، إمبراطور روماني.
- 1711 - ديفيد هيوم، فيلسوف ومؤرخ إسكتلندي.
- 1798 - ديلاكروا، رسام فرنسي.
- 1879 - أوين ريتشاردسون، عالم فيزياء بريطاني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الفيزياء عام 1928.
- 1894 - رودلف هس، مسؤول نازي.
- 1898 - فيسنته ألكسندر، أديب إسباني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الآداب عام 1977.
- 1932 -
- مايكل سميث، عالم كيمياء كندي من أصل بريطاني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء عام 1993.
- إحسان القلعاوي، ممثلة مصرية.
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- 1478 - جوليانو دي ميديشي، سياسي إيطالي.
- 1910 - بيورنستيرن بيورنسون، كاتب نرويجي حاصل على جائزة نوبل فيالأدب عام 1903.
- 1920 - سرينفاسا أينجار رامانجن، عالم رياضيات هندي.
- 1938 - إدموند هوسرل، فيلسوف ألماني.
- 1940 - كارل بوش، عالم كيمياء ألماني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء عام 1931.
- 1994 - الملكة زين الشرف، زوجة الملك طلال ملك الأردن.
- 2004 - الدكتور محمد بلتاجي حسن، كاتب مصري.
- 2010 - فرد هاليداي، كاتب أيرلندي.
- اليوم العالمي لحقوق الملكية الفكرية.
- عيد الاتحاد في تنزانيا.
Events
- 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
- 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 1564
– Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown) - 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1802
– Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one
thousand of the most notorious émigrés 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. - 1803
– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France;
the event convinces European science that meteors exist. - 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- 1865
– American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders
his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near
Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for
most states. - 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
- 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. - 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
- 1945
– World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German
tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. - 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 was liberated in
Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General
Tomoyuki Yamashita. - 1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47.
- 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- 1960
– Forced out by the april Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman
Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. - 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 1963
– In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United
Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows
for female participation in elections. - 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
- 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
- 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
- 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
- 1981
– Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San
Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal
surgery. - 1982 – 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 1986
– A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst
nuclear disaster. - 1989 – The
deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing
upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000
homeless. - 1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of april 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- 1991
– Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the
outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado
(see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). - 1994 – China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- 2002
– Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at
Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted
gunshot. - 2005 – Under
international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop
military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of
that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).
- 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
- 570 – Muhammad, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest april20. (d. 632)
- 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
- 1575 – Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
- 1648 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
- 1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer (d. 1754)
- 1710 – Thomas Reid, British philosopher (d. 1796)
- 1711 – David Hume,Scottish philosopher (d. 1776). The date is Old Style. He was born on 7th of May under Gregorian Calender.
- 1718 – Esek Hopkins, Commander of the US Navy during the Revolutionary War (d. 1802)
- 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
- 1782 – Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866)
- 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
- 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
- 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
- 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
- 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
- 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
- 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
- 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
- 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
- 1834 – Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
- 1856 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
- 1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American artist (d. 1938)
- 1878 – Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop (d. 1938)
- 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
- 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
- 1886 – Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
- 1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
- 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
- 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
- 1896 – Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
- 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
- 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
- 1898 – John Grierson, British filmmaker (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
- 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
- 1914 – James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Charlie Chester, British comedian (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
- 1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1916 – George Tuska, American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1917 – I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
- 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1924 – Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998)
- 1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
- 1926 – David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
- 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Jack Douglas, British actor (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
- 1932 – Francis Lai, French film music composer
- 1932 – Michael Smith, British-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
- 1932 – Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian
- 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
- 1938 – Duane Eddy, American musician
- 1938 – Wolf Kahler, German actor
- 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
- 1940 – Cliff Watson, British rugby league footballer
- 1941 – Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
- 1941 – John Mitchell, American composer
- 1942 – Claudine Auger, French actress
- 1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian politician
- 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
- 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
- 1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist
- 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer
- 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
- 1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
- 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian politician
- 1947 – Warren Clarke, British actor
- 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
- 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
- 1949 – Dominic Sena, American film director
- 1952 – Spice Williams-Crosby, American actress and stunt performer
- 1953 – Nancy Lenehan, American actress
- 1954 – Alan Hinkes, British mountaineer
- 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician
- 1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
- 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress
- 1957 – Michel Barrette, Canadian stand-up comedian and actor
- 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
- 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
- 1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
- 1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer
- 1959 – John Corabi, American musician
- 1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
- 1960 – Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
- 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
- 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
- 1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
- 1961 – Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
- 1962 – Colin Anderson, British footballer
- 1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
- 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
- 1963 – Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
- 1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
- 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
- 1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi, Manga artist who created YuYu Hakusho
- 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
- 1967 – Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
- 1969 – Teresa Lewis, American murderer (d. 2010)
- 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model
- 1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
- 1971 – Shondrella Avery, American actress
- 1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
- 1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
- 1972 – Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
- 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
- 1973 – Geoff Blum, American baseball player
- 1973 – Chris Perry, British footballer
- 1974 – Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
- 1974 – Adil Ray, British radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
- 1975 – Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer
- 1976 – Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Václav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
- 1977 – Jason Earles, American actor
- 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
- 1977 – Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
- 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
- 1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist detained in Iran
- 1978 – Avant, American singer
- 1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
- 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
- 1978 – Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
- 1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
- 1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
- 1980 – Jordana Brewster, American actress
- 1980 – Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
- 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
- 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
- 1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress
- 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
- 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, British musician
- 1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German freestyle skier (d. 2000)
- 1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
- 1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
- 1982 – Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
- 1982 – Cooper Wallace, American football player
- 1983 – José María López, Argentine racing driver
- 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
- 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
- 1985 – Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer (See Ya)
- 1987 – Jarmila Gajdošová, Slovakian/Australian tennis player
- 1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American/New Zealand actress
- 1988 – Kimber James, American pornographic actress
- 1989 – Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang)
- 1991 – Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
- 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
- 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
- 1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
- 1478 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
- 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
- 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
- 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
- 1789 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
- 1852 – Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (b. 25 December 1771)
- 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American assassin (b. 1838)
- 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
- 1892 – Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
- 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
- 1915 – John Bunny, silent film comedian (b. 1863)
- 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
- 1932 – William Lockwood, British cricketer (b. 1868)
- 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
- 1938 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
- 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
- 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
- 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
- 1946 – Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
- 1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
- 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
- 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
- 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
- 1968 – John Heartfield, German artist (b. 1891)
- 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
- 1970 – Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
- 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
- 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1976 – Sid James, South African–born British comedian (b. 1913)
- 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress and comedian (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1984 – William "Count" Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
- 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
- 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1987 – John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
- 1987 – Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
- 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor, father of Francis Ford Coppola(b. 1910)
- 1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
- 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
- 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
- 1999 – Adrian Borland, British musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
- 1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
- 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b. 1983)
- 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
- 2003 – Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss industrialist (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Aldobrandesca
- Franca Visalta
- Lucidius of Verona
- Our Lady of Good Counsel
- Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus
- Riquier
- Radbertus Paschasius
- Stephen of Perm, see also Old Permic Alphabet Day
- Trudpert
- April 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)