April 26 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for April 26
In the headlines today:

2005	Syria withdraws its troops from Lebanon, ending 29 years of military occupation.
1994	A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R jetliner crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan, killing 264.
1991	Tornadoes level parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 23.
1989	Actress-comedienne Lucille Ball dies in Los Angeles at age 77.
1986	The world's worst nuclear accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the USSR, as a fire and explosion kill more than 30 people, and thousands more are affected by radioactivity.
1983	The stock market has a record day, as the Dow Jones industrial average passes 1200 points for the first time.
1968	The US successfully tests a one megaton nuclear bomb in the Nevada desert.
1964	The new African nation of Tanzania is formed by the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
1956		Singer Elvis Presley tops the pop charts with Heartbreak Hotel. (photo credit: BMG)
1937	German bombers attack the Spanish town of Guernica, during the Spanish Civil War.
1923	England's King George VI marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1913	Wisconsin adopts its state flag.
1882	Naturalist Charles Darwin is buried in London's Westminster Abbey.
1865	John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, is killed by federal troops.
1731	Novelist Daniel Defoe dies at age 70.
1607	English colonists land at Cape Henry, Virginia.