1458 – Earthquake of magnitude 5.8 which causes some deaths in Umbria and Marche;
1478 – Florence: Pazzi conspiracy against Lorenzo de’ Medici; the brother of the Magnificent, Giuliano, is killed in the cathedral;
1518 – Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Dispute;
1815 – Austro-Neapolitan War: Austrian troops under the command of Federico Bianchi occupy Foligno;
1848 – Liverpool, the two naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates leave to explore the Amazon;
1859 – Austria declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia: the Second Italian War of Independence breaks out.
1868 – Su Connottu revolt in Nuoro against the so-called closing edict;
1915 – London, Sidney Sonnino, on behalf of the Kingdom of Italy, signs a pact with the United Kingdom and France, committing to go to war against Germany and Austria;
1931 – New York, the first experimental television broadcast takes place: the presenter Fay Marbe, an actress;
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police of the Nazi regime, is established;
1937 – Spanish Civil War: bombing of Guernica;
1942 – Manchuria: over 1,500 workers are killed in an explosion in a mine;
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1954 – The Geneva Conference opens: the aim is to restore peace in Indochina and Korea
1961 – Italy, first television broadcast of Tribuna politica;
1962 – USA/Ranger Program: Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes on the moon;
1964 – The State of Tanzania was born from the merger between Tanganyika and Zanzibar;
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: In Chernobyl, in the Soviet Union, the explosion in a nuclear power plant immediately causes thirty-one victims. In the following days a radioactive cloud will contaminate much of Europe, including Italy. The consequences on the local population will last for decades;
1994: South Africa holds its first elections in which black men and women participate;
Japan: A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya airport: 264 victims;
2002 – Nineteen-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
2017 – Last maneuver of the Cassini probe: dive between the rings of Saturn.
Parties and anniversaries
Nationals:
United States of America (Florida, Georgia) – Confederate Memorial Day
Tanzania – Union Day
Tatarstan – Tatar Language Day (in commemoration of the Tatar poet Ğabdulla Tuqay)
Saints of today
Saints 38 Mercedarian Martyrs of Auterive
Saint Basil of Amasea, bishop
Saint Cletus, Pope
Saints William and Pellegrino, hermits
Saint Marcellinus, pope and martyr
Saint Paschasius Radbert, abbot of Corbie
Saint Primitivo martyr, martyr
San Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Trappist
San Ricario of Centule, priest
Saint Stephen of Perm, bishop
Blessed Alda of Siena (Aldobrandesca), widow
Blessed Dominic and Gregory, Dominican priests
Blessed Julio Junyer Padern, Salesian priest and martyr
Blessed Władysław Goral, bishop and martyr
Blessed Ramón Oromí Sullà, priest and martyr
Blessed Stanislaw Kubista, priest and martyr
Born today April 26th
Marcus Aurelius (121)
Eugene Delacroix (1798)
Michele Ferrero (1925)
Lorenzo Fragola (1995)
Georgia (1971)
Black Relatives (1950)
Giacomo Poretti (1956)
Melania Trump (1970)
Deaths today April 26th
Edmund Husserl (1938)
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1910)
