Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on April 26 throughout history.
On April 26, 2025, a vehicle-ramming attack took place shortly after the Lapu-Lapu Day festival, a public celebration of Filipino heritage in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. …
A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 …
Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97
The Cedar Revolution, known in Lebanon as the Independence intifada, was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon triggered by the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafi…
Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebano
The Erfurt school massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. 19-year-old expelled st…
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide
CIH, also known as the Chernobyl virus, is a computer virus that targets computers running the Windows 9x family of operating systems. There are several variants, with different t…
Outbreak of CIH computer virus
China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline th…
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the …
The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module
From April 26 to 27, 1991, multiple supercells across Oklahoma and Kansas led to a regional tornado outbreak. Forced by a potent trough and focused along a dryline, these distinct…
Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States
The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado was an intense tornado that occurred in Manikganj District, Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. While it was destructive and extremely deadly, there is gre…
The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many a
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Published by the People's Daily Press, it provides direct information o…
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands o…
The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Michael R. Harrison served as division chief in pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for over 20 years, where he esta…
Dr
The WIPO Convention is a multilateral treaty that established the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
The 1966 Tashkent earthquake occurred on 26 April in the Uzbek SSR. It had a moment magnitude of 5.2 with an epicenter in central Tashkent at a depth of 3–8 kilometers (1.9–5.0 mi…
The magnitude 5
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Cong…
A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on …
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast,…
In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of L
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research i…
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon
The British space programme is the British government's work to develop British space capabilities. The objectives of the current civil programme are to "win sustainable economic …
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1