Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon Apr 26 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/26/ 121 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus A Verus], Emperor of Rome (161-180
04/26/1319 Jan II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)
04/26/1538 Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
04/26/1567 Nicolas Forme, composer
04/26/1573 Marie de'Medici, Queen of France
04/26/1603 Francesco Nigetti, composer
04/26/1648 Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)
04/26/1711 David Hume, England, empiricists/philospher (Treatise of Human Natur
04/26/1718 Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
04/26/1776 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (designed civil code law book)
04/26/1782 Maria Amalia van Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Lodewijk Filips of Austria
04/26/1785 John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
04/26/1796 Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer
04/26/1798 Ferdinand Eug�ne Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journa
04/26/1806 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
04/26/1812 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
04/26/1820 Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
04/26/1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
04/26/1822 Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist
04/26/1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
04/26/1834 Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
04/26/1834 Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
04/26/1836 Erminnie Adelle Platt, US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
04/26/1838 John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln), died in 1865
04/26/1839 Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
04/26/1841 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
04/26/1860 Alphonse M A J Ari�ns, Dutch pastor
04/26/1863 Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
04/26/1868 Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publishe
04/26/1868 Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
04/26/1875 Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60)
04/26/1878 Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again)
04/26/1879 Owen Williams Richardson, England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
04/26/1880 Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
04/26/1884 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
04/26/1888 Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
04/26/1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
04/26/1890 Edgar 'E Livingstone' Kennedy, US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
04/26/1893 Anita Loos, author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
04/26/1895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy F�hrer, only prisoner at Spandau
04/26/1897 Olga Chekova, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children)
04/26/1898 Edward PF Eagan, Denver, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32
04/26/1898 John Grierson, documentary film maker
04/26/1898 Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977
04/26/1899 Guinn Williams, Decatur Tx, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy)
04/26/1900 Charles Richter, Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale)
04/26/1900 Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)
04/26/1900 James Sutherland, English literature scholar
04/26/1903 Geoffrey Worthington, Air vice-marshall
04/26/1903 Niven Busch, US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)
04/26/1904 Paul E 'Cardinal' Leger, archbishop of Montreal
04/26/1904 William 'Count' Basie, jazz pianist
04/26/1905 Charles K Feldman, [Gould], NYC, producer (Casino Royale)
04/26/1905 Denis O'Dea, actor (Esther & the King, Treasure Island)
04/26/1905 Jean Vigo, France, actor/director (Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante)
04/26/1906 Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show)
04/26/1906 Leopold Spinner, composer
04/26/1907 Theun de Vries, writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981)
04/26/1910 Erland von Koch, composer
04/26/1910 Ernst Tittel, composer
04/26/1910 Johan Thorn, writer/journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
04/26/1912 A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author (Wizard of Linn)
04/26/1914 Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
04/26/1914 Charlie Chester, comedian
04/26/1914 Wilfred Howard Mellers, composer
04/26/1916 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer
04/26/1916 Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
04/26/1917 Ieoh Ming 'I M' Pei, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
04/26/1917 Sal 'The Barber' Maglie, pitcher, 8th all-time won-lost pct
04/26/1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Holland, 100m/200m dash, hurdler (Olym-gold-194
04/26/1918 Prof Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar (Leeds University)
04/26/1918 Stafford Repp, Calif, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman, Plunder Road)
04/26/1920 Juan C Lampe, Aruba, pianist/composer
04/26/1921 Harry Knutton, Maj-Gen/dir-general (London City & Guilds Institute)
04/26/1921 Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
04/26/1921 Margaret Gowing, professor of history of science
04/26/1922 James Holt, medieval historian
04/26/1922 Jeanne Sauve, 1st female Governor-General (Canada, 1984-90)
04/26/1922 Margaret Scott, founder (Australian Ballet School)
04/26/1922 Mike Kellin, Hartford Ct, actor (Honestly Celeste, Fitz & Bones)
04/26/1922 Paul-Andre Gaillard, composer
04/26/1922 Pol Bury, Belgian speed artist
04/26/1923 Oliver Millar, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
04/26/1924 Russell Nype, Zion Ill, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy)
04/26/1926 Anton PO Ekstr�m, Swedish writer (Summer Dances)
04/26/1926 David Coleman, sports commentator
04/26/1926 Michael Joughin, CEO (Scottish Hydro-Electric)
04/26/1926 Oldrich Frantisek Korte, composer
04/26/1926 Preston 'Bob' Tisch, NFL co-owner (NY Giants)
04/26/1927 Anne McLaren, biologist/zoologist
04/26/1927 Jack Douglas, comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show
04/26/1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep (Independent)
04/26/1930 Derek Waring, actor
04/26/1930 Justin Gosling, principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford)
04/26/1930 Roger Moens, Belgium, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
04/26/1933 Carol Burnett, San Antonio Tx, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
04/26/1934 J Micheal McCloskey, environmentalist, Sierra Club chairman
04/26/1936 Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge
04/26/1937 Robert Boozer, Omaha Neb, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1960)
04/26/1938 Duane Eddy, Phoenix, Az, country singer (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
04/26/1938 Willie Wood, bowler
04/26/1939 Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge
04/26/1941 John Battle, MP
04/26/1942 Bobby Rydell, Phila Pa, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
04/26/1942 Claudine Auger, Paris France, Miss France (1958)/actress (Thunderbal
04/26/1943 Gary Wright, singer, dream weaver (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
04/26/1944 Bruce Johnston, US pop musician (Beach Boys-God Only Knows)
04/26/1944 David O'B Martin, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
04/26/1944 Martha Rockwell, Providence RI, skier
04/26/1947 Donna Elizabeth De Varona, Greenwich Ct, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-64)
04/26/1948 Gerry Sikorski, (Rep-D-MN, 1983- )
04/26/1948 Stevie Nicks, Calif, rocker/druggie (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours)
04/26/1950 Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin)
04/26/1951 Lynne Jones, MP
04/26/1952 Popo Simon Molefe, secretary-general (South Africa UDF)
04/26/1956 Koo Stark, [Kathleen Dee-Anne], photographer/actress (Emily)
04/26/1958 Giancarlo Esposito, actor (Bob Roberts, School Daze, King of NY)
04/26/1958 Johnny 'Earl of' Dumfries, racing driver
04/26/1960 Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
04/26/1961 Albert Lawrence, Jamaica, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
04/26/1962 Graham 'Skin' Skinner, rocker (Hipsway)
04/26/1962 Michael Damian, San Diego, singer (Rock on)/actor (Young & Restless)
04/26/1964 Tod Bass, LA Calif, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)
04/26/1966 Andrea Temesvari, Hungary, tennis player (US Clay 1983, 1984)
Deaths:
04/26/ 757 Stephen II, [III/Orsini?], Pope (752-57), dies
04/26/1196 Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies
04/26/1558 Jean Fran�ois Fernel, French physician, dies
04/26/1648 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79
04/26/1703 Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58
04/26/1726 Jeremy Collier, historian/opponent to theater
04/26/1785 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
04/26/1827 Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
04/26/1865 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74
04/26/1865 John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead at 27 near Bowling Green V
04/26/1907 Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79
04/26/1910 Bj�rnstjerne Bj�rnson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies
04/26/1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies genius (
/Notebooks), dies at 32
04/26/1922 Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84
04/26/1924 Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82
04/26/1938 Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79
04/26/1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies
04/26/1941 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiology, dies at 74
04/26/1946 Hermann Keyserling, German philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65
04/26/1951 John Alden Carpenter, composer, dies at 75
04/26/1952 Charles L Bass, actor (Vrouwentemmers), dies at 59
04/26/1956 Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
04/26/1960 Wander J de Hare, physicist (Einstein-de Hare effect), dies at 82
04/26/1961 Gail Russell, actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at 36
04/26/1964 Edwin John Pratt, poet/literature professor
04/26/1964 Pieter Van de Line, geologist (Keienboek), dies at 93
04/26/1965 Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70
04/26/1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56
04/26/1972 Margaret Bonds, composer, dies at 59
04/26/1973 Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
04/26/1976 Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
04/26/1976 Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
04/26/1976 Sid James, actor (Lavander Hill Mob), dies at 62
04/26/1980 Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
04/26/1981 Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
04/26/1981 Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71
04/26/1982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
04/26/1982 Ville Ritola, Finnish 5/10km runner (Olympic-gold-1924, 28), dies
04/26/1983 Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81
04/26/1983 Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
04/26/1984 Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70
04/26/1984 May McAvoy, actress (Ben-Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack
04/26/1984 William 'Count' Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
04/26/1986 Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87
04/26/1986 Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
04/26/1989 Lucille Ball, comedienne/actress dies at 78 of a massive heart attac
04/26/1990 Carlos Pizarro, Colombian presidents candidate, murdered
04/26/1991 Carmine Coppola, composer, dies
04/26/1991 Emily McLaughlin, US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 60
04/26/1992 Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies
04/26/1992 Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies
Significant Events:
04/26/ 757 Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
04/26/1220 German king Frederik II grants bishops sovereign rights
04/26/1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
04/26/1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
04/26/1564 William Shakespeare baptized
04/26/1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
04/26/1637 Governor Philip J van Lichtenbergh of Suriname baptised
04/26/1654 Jews are expelled from Brazil
04/26/1709 Fries viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
04/26/1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
04/26/1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
04/26/1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
04/26/1819 Odd Fellows Lodge established
04/26/1841 'Bombay Gazette' begins publishing
04/26/1853 King Willem III disbands 2nd Chamber
04/26/1855 Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
04/26/1861 G Schiaparelli discovers asteroid #69 Hesperia
04/26/1865 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #83 Beatrix
04/26/1865 Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)
04/26/1865 Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
04/26/1865 Confederate general Joseph Johnston surrenders
04/26/1865 Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC
04/26/1876 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #163 Erigone
04/26/1884 J Palisa discovers asteroid #236 Honoria
04/26/1887 Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity
04/26/1904 Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
04/26/1906 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
04/26/1907 Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
04/26/1908 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #756 Lilliana
04/26/1912 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
04/26/1913 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
04/26/1913 Sun Yet San announces revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China
04/26/1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #868 Lova
04/26/1920 H Shapley & H.D. Curtis hold 'great debate' on nature of nebulae
04/26/1923 Duke of York (King George VI) marries Elizabeth Lyon
04/26/1923 English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
04/26/1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for 'So big'
04/26/1926 Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
04/26/1926 Karachai Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943)
04/26/1928 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
04/26/1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
04/26/1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
04/26/1936 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 4th Symphony
04/26/1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
04/26/1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
04/26/1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
04/26/1941 Potatoes rationed in Holland
04/26/1941 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2091 Sampo
04/26/1942 Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
04/26/1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
04/26/1944 Papandreou govt in Greece forms
04/26/1947 'Bless the Bride' musical opens in London
04/26/1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
04/26/1950 U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
04/26/1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
04/26/1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
04/26/1952 US minesweeper 'Hobson' rams aircraft carrier 'Wasp,' kills 176
04/26/1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
04/26/1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
04/26/1957 Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
04/26/1959 Cuba invades Panama
04/26/1961 French Army revolt fails
04/26/1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
04/26/1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
04/26/1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on Moon
04/26/1962 Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
04/26/1962 US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
04/26/1964 Boston beats SF, 4 games to 1, for 6th straight NBA championship
04/26/1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar
04/26/1966 Arnold 'Red' Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
04/26/1967 KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
04/26/1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
04/26/1968 US underground nuclear test, 'Boxcar', 1 megaton device
04/26/1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15' in 24 hrs
04/26/1971 SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
04/26/1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
04/26/1973 2 Gentlemen of Verona, musical opens in London
04/26/1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
04/26/1974 Malta adopts constitution
04/26/1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3
04/26/1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3649
04/26/1977 NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens
04/26/1978 France routes troops to Chad
04/26/1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
04/26/1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
04/26/1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
04/26/1980 Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
04/26/1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
04/26/1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
04/26/1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
04/26/1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
04/26/1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1200 for 1st time
04/26/1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
04/26/1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
04/26/1984 Pres Reagan visits China
04/26/1986 Actor/bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shrive
04/26/1986 Worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl USSR, 31 die
04/26/1988 1st TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
04/26/1989 AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
04/26/1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
04/26/1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
04/26/1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
04/26/1990 NY court of appeals ends 2� year legal battle over 1988 America's
04/26/1991 'Dinosaurs' premieres on ABC-TV
04/26/1991 23 killed in Kansas & Okla by tornadoes
04/26/1992 'Jolly's Last Jam' opens at Virginia theater on Broadway
04/26/1992 'Who's The Boss,' final episode after 8 years
04/26/1992 Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
04/26/1992 Final episode of 'Growing Pains' airs
04/26/1992 Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
04/26/1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
04/26/1993 NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
04/26/1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
04/26/1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days]
04/26/1994 26.9�C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
04/26/1994 Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
04/26/1994 General elections in South Africa
04/26/1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
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