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757Apr 26Stephen II ended his reign as Catholic Pope.
1564Apr 26William Shakespeare was baptized.
1607Apr 26Ships under the command of Capt. Christopher Newport sought shelter in Chesapeake Bay. The forced landing led to the founding of Jamestown on the James River, the first English settlement. An expedition of English colonists, including Capt. John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1654Apr 26Jews were expelled from Brazil.
1655Apr 26Dutch West Indies Co. denied Peter Stuyvesant’s desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam.
1828Apr 26Russia declared war on Turkey to support Greece’s independence.
1855Apr 26Composer Gioacchino Rossini left Italy.
1915Apr 26Second Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse became the first airman to win the Victoria Cross after conducting a successful bombing raid.
1921Apr 26The first weather news was aired by station WEW in St. Louis, Mo.
1923Apr 26English prince Albert (George VI) married lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1928Apr 26Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition opened in London.
1929Apr 26First non-stop flight from England to India was completed.
1931Apr 26New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner, the mistake ultimately cost him the home run crown.
1932Apr 26Ed Wynn, the Texaco fire chief, was heard on radio’s Texaco Star Theater for the first time. He demanded and got a live audience to react to his humor.
1938Apr 26Maurice Williams, singer and songwriter, was born. He was in the group Zodiacs and did the song “Stay.”
1944Apr 26First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
1957Apr 26Jamestown, Va., 350th Anniversary Festival opened.
1959Apr 26The Panamanian government reported ‘suppression’ of attempted guerilla invasion from Cuba.
1961Apr 26French paratroopers’ revolt was suppressed in Algeria.
1964Apr 26The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1968Apr 26The United States exploded a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called “Boxcar” beneath the Nevada desert.
1973Apr 26“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” musical opened in London.
1976Apr 26Pan Am began non-stop flights between NYC and Tokyo.
1977Apr 26NY’s famed disco Studio 54 opened. It closed in March, 1986.
1979Apr 26The US Treasury failed to redeem $122 million of Treasury bills on time. The Treasury was also late in redeeming T-bills which become due on May 3 and May 10, 1979.
1980Apr 26Following an unsuccessful attempt by the United States to rescue U.S. Embassy hostages in Iran, the Tehran government announced that captives were being scattered to thwart any future effort.
1982Apr 26Rod Stewart was mugged. A gunman stole his $50,000 Porsche.
1983Apr 26The Dow Jones moved past 1200 for the first time.
1992Apr 26The musical “Grand Hotel” closed at the Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,017 performances.
1993Apr 26President Clinton signed an executive order imposing new economic sanctions against Yugoslavia after the Serbian leadership in Bosnia voted against accepting a U.N.-sponsored plan to end the war.
1996Apr 26The Effingham Baptist Church in Effingham, S.C., burned down. Arson was suspected and investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
1999Apr 26The Clinton administration urged a one-year extension of the Oslo peace process and pressured Pres. Arafat not to declare an independent state onMay 4.
2000Apr 26Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
2001Apr 26In northeastern Congo 6 Red Cross workers were killed 30 miles north of Bunia.
2002Apr 26David Gunn, who had run transit systems in New York City and Washington, was named president of Amtrak, the troubled national rail passenger service.
2003Apr 26Charlton Heston (78), diagnosed with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, made his last appearance as president of the National Rifle Association during a convention in Orlando, Fla., where he briefly thanked the membership. Kayne Robinson took over. In 2006 Emilie Raymond authored “From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics.”
2004Apr 26The US unveiled a new $50 bill to make counterfeiting more difficult.
2005Apr 26US Congressional aides said global terrorist attacks rose to 650 in 2004 from 175 in 2003.
2006Apr 26Pres. Bush formally named Tony Snow, a Fox News commentator, to be his press secretary.
2007Apr 26Nigeria’s main opposition party said it will not recognize or cooperate with any government formed as a result of last weekend’s presidential election, which was won by the party of outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo.
2008Apr 26Eos Airlines, a business-class carrier launched in 2005, filed for bankruptcy. It ceased operations the next day.
2009Apr 26A deal between Chrysler and the UAW was revealed that would give the union a 55% stake in the company in return for concessions. Under the plan Fiat SpA would eventually own 35% and the US government together with secured lenders would own up to 10%.
2010Apr 26Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega extradited was from the US to France to face money laundering charges in a French courtroom, opening up a whole new legal battle for the strongman who spent two decades behind bars in Florida for drug trafficking.
2011Apr 26The Transparency-Maroc (Morocco) Association called on all public institutions in the north African country to account for their spending and to accept inspections.
2012Apr 26US officials said the White House has given the CIA and the Pentagon broader authority to carry out drone strikes in Yemen against terrorists who imperil the US.
2013Apr 26Mohamed Mamdouh, an American citizen of Moroccan descent, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for plotting to blow up NYC synagogues. Mamdouh and co-defendant Ahmed Ferhani had been arrested in a police sting.
2014Apr 26President Barack Obama began the first visit to Malaysia by an American president in nearly half a century. Trade, defense and maritime security were among the issues Obama and PM Najib were expected to discuss during talks in the 2-day visit.
Source: Timelines of history

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