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April 26: Audubon Day: -- April 26, 1785:
#BOTD: #HBD! John James Audubon, French-African American
self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist (d. January 27,
1851) is #born Jean-Jacques Rabin in Les Cayes in the French
colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on his father's sugarcane
plantation, the son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval
officer and privateer, and his chambermaid mistress of French and
African descent Jeanne Rabine, after whom he was named. We greatly
admire people working towards conservation activities and this
factors into our celebrations of Audubon Day on April 26 each
year. Held to commemorate the birth of John James Audubon, this
day also recognizes the crucial work done by The National Audubon
Society. John James Audubon combined interests in art and
ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictorial record
of all the bird species of North America. He was notable for his
extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for
his detailed illustrations, which depicted the birds in their
natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book titled The
Birds of America (1827-1839), is considered one of the finest
ornithological works ever completed. Audubon is also known for
identifying 25 new species. He is the eponym of the National
Audubon Society, and his name adorns a large number of towns,
neighborhoods, and streets across the United States. Dozens of
scientific names first published by Audubon are still in use by
the scientific community. Audubon made some excursions out West
where he hoped to record Western species he had missed, but his
health began to fail. In 1848, he manifested signs of senility or
possibly dementia from what is now called Alzheimer's disease, his
"noble mind in ruins". He died at his family home in
northern Manhattan, aged 65. Audubon is buried in the graveyard at
the Church of the Intercession in the Trinity Church Cemetery and
Mausoleum at 155th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, near his
home. An imposing monument in his honor was erected at the
cemetery, which is now recognized as part of the Heritage Rose
District of NYC. Audubon's final work dealt with mammals; he
prepared The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1849) in
collaboration with his good friend Rev. John Bachman of
Charleston, South Carolina, who supplied much of the scientific
text. His son, John Woodhouse Audubon, drew most of the plates.
The work was completed by Audubon's sons, and the second volume
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: Remember Your First Kiss Day:
-- Almost everyone has a first kiss story. This day serves to
remind us of who we had our first kiss with, where we had it, what
led to it, how we enjoyed it, and what transpired afterward. It
also allows us to revisit the past and rekindle our relationships,
or remember that special person who first made us feel lost in
romance. However, the first kiss might not always be as romantic
as many proclaim. Some loathe it due to certain circumstances that
surrounded the moment. It is not known where or when the holiday,
Remember Your First Kiss Day was created nor is its creator known.
However, millions of people in the U.S. relish the celebration of
the day. The day takes the mind on a journey back in time to that
special or maybe awkward moment where we had our first kiss, the
person we had it with, and how it all happened. It is believed
that people rarely forget their first time doing certain things in
life. The first kiss, like other things, can be an everlasting
memory just like any other big life achievement. Maybe that is why
almost everyone can remember 90% details of their first kiss. The
act of kissing has been around for millions of years. Some believe
that it unconsciously originated from mothers feeding their babies
with their mouths. Others argue that it emanated from ancient
India. Accordingly, four major literary texts of the Vedic
Sanskrit explained an early form of kissing as rubbing and
pressing noses together in 1500 B.C. Half a millennium later, lip
kissing was mentioned in the epic poem 'Mahabharata,' indicating
that someone went the extra mile to experiment with kissing with
the lips rather than pressing noses. Around 326 B.C., kissing
began to go beyond India, spread by the armies of Alexander the
Great into parts of Asia. The act of kissing became overwhelmingly
popular in Europe in the middle ages. Everyone in Europe was
kissing everyone. In 1896, a film titled "The Kiss"
featuring May Irwin and John Rice showed for the first time, a
repeated act of kissing, an act many described as disgusting. So,
do you still remember your first kiss? Can you recall how it all
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: World Burlesque Day: -- An
annual tribute to a unique art form. Burlesque dancing shows have
dramatic and musical performances by women that is both comedic
and provocative. World Burlesque Day is devoted to the celebration
and elevation of burlesque and provides a way of boosting the art
form's global visibility. For those who are not aware of what
burlesque is, it is a form of entertainment that is similar to a
cabaret. It was extremely popular during the early part of the
20th century. It is a glamorous, satirical, raunchy, and
irreverent performance that would consist of strippers, comedians,
and a master of ceremonies. World Burlesque Day was created in
2022 by Sapphira, a showgirl, author, and mental-health
ambassador. She created World Burlesque Day as a way of bringing
together people who love everything to do with burlesque. She also
wanted this holiday to serve as a platform for people to share
their stories and, in so doing, encourage others to find their own
sense of style and freedom through burlesque. Sapphira has been a
showgirl since 2004 and claims that burlesque has helped her to
overcome mental health problems and believes that it can give
confidence to others who are struggling too. She chose April 26 as
the day to celebrate World Burlesque Day to commemorate 50 years
since the passing of Gypsy Rose Lee who was one of the greatest
burlesque performers in the 1930s. Today, burlesque has evolved
into neo-burlesque, which is based on traditional burlesque.
Although burlesque has changed throughout the years, people still
enjoy all types of burlesque. On World Burlesque Day, burlesque
lovers from all over the world come together to celebrate the
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: National Garage Day: -- The
garage is an essential part of every household. It's evolved to
become more than just a storage space. This practical space
provides people the chance to practice their hobbies, make D.I.Y.
projects, store their collectibles, or even entertain guests. This
fun holiday is your reminder to declutter your garage and take the
time to reflect on all the hobbies you abandoned and the projects
you've been meaning to finish. Reclaim your space to accommodate
your needs! Encourage productivity and inspire yourself by
spending the day engaging in creative projects. Garages are an
important feature of the home, and they can be very versatile. For
many, this is the place to start new projects or pursue their
messier hobbies that they can't bring into their house. This
holiday was started to motivate people and encourage creativity.
The company Garage Condos, LLC invented this new holiday in 2020.
First, it's important to reflect on how garages became part of
everyday life. Cars and garages are now found in nearly every
home, making it difficult to imagine a time without them, but both
are quite recent inventions. The first motor car was invented in
1886 by Karl Benz, an evolution of wagons and carriages led by
horses. People only started driving cars in the early 1900s, with
the first driver's license being issued in 1903. After that, cars
became much more accessible, and many city-dwellers had them.
These large and expensive objects needed to be stored safely. At
first, car owners parked their vehicles in carriage houses and
stables, but this wasn't very practical. This need gave way to a
new invention, the garage. The first garage door was a result of a
miscalculation by Henry Ford. Ford was working in a shed on his
quadricycle - a four-wheeled bicycle that functioned without a
horse. He soon realized that the vehicle was too big to take out,
and he had to knock down a part of the shed's brick wall. In its
place, he installed what could be considered the earliest version
of a garage door. Many variations were invented, but none caught
on. In 1921, C.G. Johnson invented the overhead door, which is
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: Alien Day: -- A day accompanied
by celebrations aimed not only to appreciate science fiction but
also educate people about it. The day provides science fiction
lovers with the opportunity to partake in everything sci-fi. It is
spiced up by organizing sci-fi competitions for interested persons
to win alien collectible and wearable prizes. Did you know that
"Blade Runner," rated by critics as the most influential
sci-fi movie ever, was directed by Ridley Scott? Ridley Scott also
directed the famous movie titled "Alien," where Alien
Day draws its inspiration. Alien Day is a widely acclaimed holiday
sponsored by the film production company, 20th Century Fox. It was
first celebrated in 2015 as an unofficial holiday in Brooklyn, New
York, by a group of folks who aimed to glorify the world of
science fiction. In 2016, it became even more organized and
recognized as trivia competitions, comic books, alien video games,
clothes, and collectible prizes became parts of events marking its
celebration. The creation of the holiday was inspired by Ridley
Scott's movie "Alien" which was released in 1979. The
choice of April 26 as the date of celebration does not reflect the
day the movie was released; rather, it was adopted from the
fictional name of a planet where aliens were discovered in the
movie. The year 2016 held a special place in the alien world
because it corresponded with the 30th anniversary of the release
of the 'Alien' narrations. The reason behind the observation of
Alien Day is to reach out to many people across the globe and get
them to appreciate the extraordinary world of aliens in style. Do
you know that you can learn a lot about science and technology in
science fiction movies? "Blade Runner" is a sci-fi movie
you will not regret watching. The history of the "Alien"
movie is incomplete without Ridley Scott. Sir Ridley Scott, born
November 30, 1937, is an English film director and producer. He is
notable for his sci-fi movies collections such as "Alien"
released in 1979, "Blade Runner" in 1982, "The
Martian" in 2015, and the 2001 war film "Black Hawk
Down," among many others. The British director is an
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: Richter Scale Day: -- We might
not yet know who founded this day, but we commemorate this day to
honor the birth of the founder of the Richter scale - the very
first instrument used to measure earthquakes - Charles Richter.
While the founders of this holiday are still undercover, we know
this day is meant to honor the man who taught the world to measure
earthquakes - American seismologist and physicist Charles Francis
Richter. Richter was born on a farm in Ohio and moved to Los
Angeles with his mother when he was a teenager. He attended the
University of Southern California, going on to study physics at
Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology,
where he attained his Ph.D. on the subject. While at the
California Institute of Technology, Richter was deeply impressed
and inspired by a paper written on shallow- and deep earthquakes
by Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Wadati. Along with German-born Beno
Gutenberg, Richter went on to develop the Richter scale of
measurement while they were both at the California Institute of
Technology. This scale quantified the energy released during an
earthquake on a scale of 0 to 10. Each number on the scale
represents an earthquake 10 times stronger than the number before
it. For example, an earthquake with a magnitude of five is 10
times stronger (and releases more energy) than one with a
magnitude of four. The Richter scale became a universal standard
for the measurement of earthquakes. While other scales have been
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1994: Freedom Day: -- South
Africa: The History Of South Africa: Elections And Referendums In
South Africa: The 1994 South African General Election (Freedom
Day): -- Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the
history of South Africa. The General elections were held between
26 and 29 April 1994. The election was conducted under the
direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and
marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended
apartheid. Millions queued in lines over a four-day voting period.
Altogether 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 were rejected
as invalid. As widely expected, the African National Congress
(ANC), whose slate incorporated the labour confederation COSATU
and the South African Communist Party, won a sweeping victory,
taking 62 percent of the vote, just short of the two-thirds
majority required to unilaterally amend the Interim Constitution.
As required by that document, the ANC formed a Government of
National Unity with the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom
Party, the two other parties that won more than 20 seats in the
National Assembly. The new National Assembly's first act was to
elect Nelson Mandela as President, making him the country's first
black chief executive. F.W. de Klerk became vice president. The
date 27 April is now a public holiday in South Africa, Freedom
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: International Chernobyl
Disaster Remembrance Day: -- A day that forever remembers the
tragic day that The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, officially
named the Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, experienced a
malfunction during a systems test. The malfunction led to the
release of massive amounts of radioactive material into the
surrounding environment. As a result, parts of Russia, Ukraine,
and Belarus were left unsafe, and a 30-kilometer radius around the
plant - the exclusion zone - uninhabitable. April 26 is a day that
forces us to remember what happened and consider the implications
of nuclear energy and the risks involved. Nuclear energy is a
fairly recent achievement for the human race, it boasts a powerful
array of unique benefits that make it an extremely desirable
material from which we can draw power. However, with great power
to transform the energy situation in the world, there are major
risks that need to be considered too. Much of what we know about
nuclear energy is related squarely to its destructive power and
nuclear bombs. However, once the development and perfection of
nuclear weaponry were well on their way, from about 1945 attention
began to shift towards its uses in the energy field. In 1951, on
December 20, E.B.R.-I became the first nuclear power plant that
could produce usable electricity through atomic fission. A minute
power generator in comparison to the nuclear power plants we
experience today, but the first of its kind. Nuclear energy, in
the beginning, was not widely criticized, and awareness was
limited, however in the 1970s and 1980s staunch opposition rose
against the construction and spread of nuclear power plants.
Construction on the Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant ended in
1977. However, the entire build project was riddled with failures,
defective building materials, and inadequate machinery to get the
job done, correctly and on par with international safety
standards. According to Prime Minister of the U.S.S.R. Nikolai
Ryzhkov, the disaster was inevitable. Although the immediate
destructive force of a nuclear bomb far outweighs that of a
nuclear plant meltdown, this is simply due to the controls in
place that attempt to negate that power, however, the
environmental impact that a compromised nuclear powerplant can
have on its surroundings is destructive and almost irreversible.
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1865: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Surrender Of Joseph E. Johnston
(The Surrender Of The Army Of Tennessee, The End Of The Conclusion
Of The American Civil War, The Last Surrender Agreement Of The
Confederate States Of America (CSA), The Last Surrender Agreement
Of The Confederate State (C.S.), The Last Surrender Agreement Of
The Confederacy, The Last Surrender Agreement Of The South):
"Confederate Memorial Day": -- The largest and last
major Confederate field army surrender to the Union, the surrender
that effectively ended the American Civil War, occurs when
Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his Army of
Tennessee, as well as all other remaining Confederate forces in
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, to General
William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place, a poor former farm
and homestead near Durham, North Carolina. This surrender is
commemorated as Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate
Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in
Tennessee), a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on
various dates since the end of the American Civil War. When
General Sherman started after Johnston on April 10, Johnston
retreated through Raleigh, North Carolina, abandoning the city on
April 12 before continuing westward along the North Carolina
Railroad to Hillsborough; he planned to surrender but thought that
the Confederacy could get better terms if he negotiated from a
position of strength. Johnston and Sherman met and negotiated
terms of surrender on April 17 and 18 at the Bennett Place near
Durham Station, North Carolina; Sherman not only accepted the
surrender of the Army of Tennessee but promised to recognize the
Confederate state governments. These terms were immediately
rejected by the Union government, forcing Sherman and Johnston to
negotiate a new agreement. The new terms of surrender, signed on
April 26, were modeled on the terms given at Appomattox Court
House and included not only the Army of Tennessee but also all
other Confederate forces in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and
North Carolina; the number of Confederate troops included in the
surrender totaled almost 90,000 men. Confederate Memorial Day is
currently an official state holiday in Alabama, Mississippi, South
Carolina and Texas (where state employees are entitled to a paid
day off work), while it is commemorated in Kentucky, Florida,
North Carolina, and Tennessee. It was also formerly recognized in
Missouri, Louisiana, and Virginia. In Georgia, a state holiday is
still observed on the 4th Monday in April; however, since 2016, it
is referred to simply as a "State Holiday". Several
states celebrate the date on or near April 26. Originally publicly
presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate
soldiers who died during the American Civil War, the holiday was
promoted by Southern state legislatures after the Civil War to
reinforce and symbolize white supremacy in the South. During the
1950s and 1960s, the holiday also served as symbol of resistance
against desegregation and black civil rights. The Southern Poverty
Law Center has condemned the holiday as part of a campaign of
"racial terror" on the part of white supremacists - "an
organized propaganda campaign, created to instill fear and ensure
the ongoing oppression of formerly enslaved people." Writers
and historians have pointed out that the holiday's official
recognition by states often coincided with the height of Jim Crow
racism around the United States, decades after the war ended. The
holiday originated at a local level by Ladies' Memorial
Associations to care for the graves of Confederate dead. In 1866,
General John A. Logan commanded the posts of Grand Army Of The
Republic to strew flowers on the graves of Union soldiers, which
observance later became the national Memorial Day. In a speech to
veterans in Salem, Illinois, on July 4, 1866, Logan referred to
the various dates of observance adopted in the South for the
practice, saying "traitors in the South have their gatherings
day after day, to strew garlands of flowers upon the graves of
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 121: #BOTD: #HBD! Marcus
Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180, who ruled jointly with
his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until Verus' death in 169, and
jointly with his son, Commodus, from 177 till Aurelius' own death,
last of the so-called Five Good Emperors (d. March 17, 180) is
#born Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus in Rome, Italy. He was a
practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known
as Meditations, is a significant source of the modern
understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy. It is considered by
many commentators to be one of the greatest works of philosophy.
During his reign, the Roman Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian
Empire in the East: Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the
capital Ctesiphon in 164. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the
Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the
Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic peoples
began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire. A revolt in
the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was
suppressed immediately. Marcus Aurelius died of unknown causes in
his military quarters either in the city of Vindobona (province of
Pannonia Superior, today Vienna) or near Sirmium (province of
Pannonia Inferior, modern Sremska Mitrovica) at the age of 58. He
was immediately deified and his ashes were returned to Rome, where
they rested in Hadrian's mausoleum (modern Castel Sant'Angelo)
until the Visigoth sack of the city in 410. His campaigns against
Germans and Sarmatians were also commemorated by a column and a
temple built in Rome. His death is considered to be the end of the
Pax Romana, a roughly 200-year-long period of Roman history which
is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman
imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability,
hegemonic power, and regional expansion, and the increasing
instability in the west that followed has traditionally been seen
as the beginning of the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1798: #BOTD: #HBD! Eugene
Delacroix, French painter, lithographer and muralist, Romantic
artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the
French Romantic school, who together with his rival and enemy of
Romanticsim Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Delacroix is considered
one of the last old Masters of painting and is one of the few who
was ever photographed (d. August 13, 1863) is #born Ferdinand
Victor Eugene Delacroixat Charenton-Saint-Maurice in
Ile-de-France, near Paris. His mother was Victoire Oeben, the
daughter of the cabinetmaker Jean-Francois Oeben. There are
medical reasons to believe that Eugene's legitimate father,
Charles-Francois Delacroix, was not able to procreate at the time
of Eugene's conception. Talleyrand (Charles-Maurice de
Talleyrand-Perigord, 1st Prince Of Benevento, then Prince Of
Talleyrand, French secularized clergyman, statesman and leading
diplomat) considered himself to be Eugene's real father, as he was
a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and resumbled the adult Eugene in
appearance and character. After assuming his office as foreign
minister, Talleyrand dispatched Delacroix to The Hague in the
capacity of French ambassador to the then Batavian Republic.
Delacroix at that time suffered from erectile dysfunction, and
when he returned to Paris in early September 1797, he found his
wife pregnant. Talleyrand went on to assist Eugene in the form of
numerous anonymous commissions. Throughout his career as a
painter, he was protected by Talleyrand, who served successively
the Restoration and king Louis-Philippe, and ultimately as
ambassador of France in Great Britain, and later by Charles
Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III
and speaker of the French House of Commons. His legitimate father,
Charles Delacroix, died in 1805, and his mother in 1814, leaving
16-year-old Eugene an orphan. Eugene had three much older
siblings: Charles-Henri Delacroix (1779-1845) rose to the rank of
General in Napoleon's army, Henriette (1780-1827) married the
diplomat Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1762-1822), and Henri
born six years later was killed at the Battle Of Friedland during
the Napoleonic War Of The Fourth Coalition. As a painter and
muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study
of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the
Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the
artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix
illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish
author Walter Scott, and the German author Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief
rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens
and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant
emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and
carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content
characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not
to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in
North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir
to Theodore Gericault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron,
with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces
of the sublime", of nature in often violent action. However,
Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast, and his
Romanticism was that of an individualist. In the words of
Baudelaire, "Delacroix was passionately in love with passion,
but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible."
Victor Hugo as young man declared his own life's mission as
"Delacroix or Bust!". Eugene Delacroix died of a throat
infection at his home in Paris, France, aged 65. He is buried at
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26-27, 1805: Crime: Organized
Crime: Piracy: The Barbary Pirates (The Barbary Corsairs, The
Ottoman Corsairs): The Barbary Wars: The First Barbary War
(1801-1805) (The Tripolitan War, The Barbary Coast War): The
Battle Of Derna (1805): -- United States Marines captured the
Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part
of the Marines' Hymn) under the command of First Lieutenant
Presley O'Bannon. The Battle Of Derna at Derna, Cyrenaica, was the
decisive victory in April-May 1805 of a mercenary Berber army
recruited and led by United States Marines under the command of
U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, diplomatic Consul to Tripoli,
and U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon.
The battle involved a forced 521-mile march through the North
African desert from Alexandria, Egypt, to the eastern port city of
Derna, Libya, which was defended by a much larger force. The
Battle Of Derna was the first land battle of the United States on
foreign soil (after the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783))
and was the decisive action of the First Barbary War (1801-1805).
The First Barbary War (1801-1805), also known as the Tripolitanian
War and the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two Barbary Wars,
in which the United States and Sweden fought against the four
North African states known collectively as the "Barbary
States". Three of these were nominal provinces of the Ottoman
Empire, but in practice autonomous: Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis.
The fourth was the independent Sultanate of Morocco. The cause of
the U.S. participation was pirates from the Barbary States seizing
American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom,
demanding the U.S. pay tribute to the Barbary rulers. United
States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute.
Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800. On 10 May
1801, the Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the U.S., not through
any formal written documents but in the customary Barbary manner
of cutting down the flagstaff in front of the U.S. Consulate.
Although Congress never voted on a formal declaration of war, they
did respond by authorizing President Jefferson to instruct the
commanders of armed American vessels to seize all vessels and
goods of the Pasha of Tripoli "and also to cause to be done
all such other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war
will justify." In 1802, in response to Jefferson's request
for authority to deal with the pirates, Congress passed "An
act for the protection of commerce and seamen of the United States
against the Tripolitan cruisers", authorizing the President
to "_employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as
may be judged requisite_ for protecting effectually the commerce
and seamen thereof on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and
adjoining seas." The U.S Navy went unchallenged on the sea,
but still the question remained undecided. Jefferson pressed the
issue the following year, with an increase in military force and
deployment of many of the navy's best ships to the region
throughout 1802. Argus, Chesapeake, Constellation, Constitution,
Enterprise, Intrepid, Philadelphia and Syren all saw service
during the war under the overall command of Preble. Throughout
1803, Preble set up and maintained a blockade of the Barbary ports
and executed a campaign of raids and attacks against the cities'
fleets. In October 1803, Tripoli's fleet captured USS Philadelphia
intact after the frigate ran aground on a reef while patrolling
Tripoli harbor. Efforts by the Americans to float the ship while
under fire from shore batteries and Tripolitan Naval units failed.
The ship, her captain, William Bainbridge, and all officers and
crew were taken ashore and held as hostages. Philadelphia was
turned against the Americans and anchored in the harbor as a gun
battery. On the night of 16 February 1804, Lieutenant Stephen
Decatur led a small detachment of U.S. Marines aboard the captured
Tripolitan ketch rechristened USS Intrepid, thus deceiving the
guards on Philadelphia to float close enough to board her.
Decatur's men stormed the ship and overpowered the Tripolitan
sailors. With fire support from the American warships, the Marines
set fire to Philadelphia, denying her use by the enemy. The
"Marines' Hymn", in part inspired by the Battle Of
Derna, is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps,
introduced by the first Director of USMC Band, Francesco Maria
Scala. It is the oldest official song in the United States Armed
Forces. The "Marines' Hymn" is typically sung at the
position of attention as a gesture of respect. However, the third
verse is also used as a toast during formal events, such as the
birthday ball and other ceremonies. In the aftermath of the Battle
Of Derna, Eaton was furious over what he called a 'sell-out'
between State Department diplomat Tobias Lear and the bey. Hamet
returned to Egypt, and the mercenaries were never fully paid. On
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Ma Rainey,
influential African American blues singer and early blues
recording artist (d. December 22, 1939) is #born Gertrude
Pridgett; she is said to have been #born on this date in Columbus,
Georgia, but there is uncertainty about the date. Some sources
indicate that she was born in 1882, while most sources assert that
she was born, as she herself said, on April 26, 1886 (beginning
with the 1910 census, taken April 25, 1910). However, the 1900
census indicates that she was born in September 1882 in Alabama,
and researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc suggest that her
birthplace was in Russell County, Alabama. Dubbed the "Mother
of the Blues", Ma Rainey (nee Pridgett) bridged earlier
vaudeville and the authentic expression of southern blues,
influencing a generation of blues singers. She began performing as
a teenager and became known as "Ma" Rainey after her
marriage to Will "Pa" Rainey in 1904. They toured with
the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group, Rainey
and Rainey, Assassinators of the Blues. Her first recording was
made in 1923. In the following five years, she made over 100
recordings, including "Bo-Weevil Blues" (1923),
"Moonshine Blues" (1923), "See See Rider Blues"
(1924), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon
This Morning" (1927). Rainey was known for her powerful vocal
abilities, energetic disposition, majestic phrasing, and a
"moaning" style of singing. Her qualities are present
and most evident in her early recordings "Bo-Weevil Blues"
and "Moonshine Blues". Rainey recorded with Thomas
Dorsey and Louis Armstrong, and she toured and recorded with the
Georgia Jazz Band. She toured until 1935, when she largely retired
from performing and continued as a theater impresario in her
hometown of Columbus, Georgia, until her death four years later.
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April 26, 1894: #BOTD: Rudolf Hess,
prominent Egyptian-German politician in Nazi Germany (d. August
17, 1987) is #born Rudolf Walter Richard Hess in Alexandria,
Egypt. He was appointed Deputy Fuehrer to Adolf Hitler in 1933,
and was a member of Hitler's inner circle. He served in this
position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt
to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He
was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against
peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide. Hess enlisted as
an infantryman at the outbreak of World War I. He was wounded
several times over the course of the war and was awarded the Iron
Cross, 2nd class, in 1915. Shortly before the war ended, Hess
enrolled to train as an aviator, but he saw no action in this
role. He left the armed forces in December 1918 with the rank of
Leutnant der Reserve. In 1919, Hess enrolled in the University of
Munich, where he studied geopolitics under Karl Haushofer, a
proponent of the concept of Lebensraum ("living space"),
which later became one of the pillars of Nazi Party (NSDAP)
ideology. Hess joined the NSDAP on July 1, 1920, and was at
Hitler's side on November 8, 1923 for the Beer Hall Putsch, a
failed Nazi attempt to seize control of the government of Bavaria.
Whilst serving time in jail for this attempted coup, Hess helped
Hitler write his book, Mein Kampf, which became a foundation of
the political platform of the NSDAP. After the Nazi seizure of
power in 1933, Hess was appointed Deputy Fuhrer of the NSDAP and
received a post in Hitler's cabinet. He was the third most
powerful man in Germany, behind only Hitler and Hermann Goering.
In addition to appearing on Hitler's behalf at speaking
engagements and rallies, Hess signed into law much of the
legislation, including the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which stripped
the Jews of Germany of their rights in the lead-up to the
Holocaust. Hess continued to be interested in aviation, learning
to fly the more advanced aircraft that were coming into
development at the start of World War II. On May 10, 1941 he
undertook a solo flight to Scotland, where he hoped to arrange
peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, whom he believed to be
prominent in opposition to the British government. Hess was
immediately arrested on his arrival and was held in British
custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany
to stand trial in the Nuremberg Trials of major war criminals in
1946. During much of the trial, he claimed to be suffering from
amnesia, but later admitted this was a ruse. Hess was convicted of
crimes against peace and conspiracy with other German leaders to
commit crimes and was transferred to Spandau Prison in 1947, where
he served a life sentence. Repeated attempts by family members and
prominent politicians to win him early release were blocked by the
Soviet Union. Still in custody in Spandau, Rudolf Hess died in a
summer house at the age of 93 that had been set up in the prison
garden as a reading room; he had hanged himself using an extension
cord strung over a window latch. A short note to his family was
found in his pocket, thanking them for all that they had done. The
Four Powers released a statement on September 17 ruling the death
a suicide. He was initially buried at a secret location to avoid
media attention or demonstrations by Nazi sympathisers, but his
body was re-interred in a family plot at Wunsiedel on March 17,
1988. He was the last of the major Nuremberg war criminals to die.
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1925: The Aftermath Of World
War I: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
The Weimar Republic (The German Reich, The German Republic): The
1925 German Presidential Election: -- In a runoff election, Paul
von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the
German presidential election to become the first directly elected
head of state (President Of The Reich (Reichsprasident)) of the
Weimar Republic. The election began on March 29; 1925, with the
runoff on April 26. The first President, Friedrich Ebert, who had
died on February 28 1925, had been elected indirectly, by the
National Assembly, but the Weimar Constitution required that his
successor be elected by the "whole German people". Paul
von Hindenburg was elected as the second president of Germany in
the second round of voting. Hindenburg was the candidate of a
broad coalition of the political right. Many on the right hoped
that once in power he would destroy Weimar democracy from the
inside and restore the pre-Weimar status quo. The two other
candidates who were believed to have a chance of winning were Otto
Braun of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Wilhelm Marx of the
Centre Party. Both the SPD and Centre were members of the Weimar
Coalition, the group of parties regarded as most committed to the
Weimar system. Only Marx proceeded to the second round of the
election. The election was important because of the turbulent
times in which it occurred and because, under the Weimar
Constitution, the head of state wielded considerable power.
Hindenburg would be again returned in the 1932 election and would
play an important role during the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
However, many of Hindenburg's 1925 backers were subsequently
disappointed. Although in the years that followed his election
many questioned the constitutionality of certain of his actions,
Hindenburg never attempted to overthrow the Weimar constitution
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April 26, 1925: First Publications: --
Franz Kafka's novel The Trial (German: Der Process, later Der
Prozess), written by Kafka between 1914 and 1915, is published
posthumously. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of
Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible
authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him
nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and
Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as
to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels,
The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter
which appears to bring the story to an intentionally abrupt
ending. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary
executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die
Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern
Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. The first English-language
translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published in 1937. In
1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1933: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: Nazi Germany (The
German Reich, The Third Reich): Gleichschaltung (Nazification):
The Gestapo (Abbreviation Of Geheime Staatspolizei (German:
"Secret State Police"): -- The Gestapo, the official
secret police force of Nazi Germany, and later of German-occupied
Europe, is established. An abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei
(Secret State Police), the force was created by Hermann Goering in
1933 by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia
into one organisation. Beginning on 20 April 1934 it passed, as a
suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) (Security Police), to
the administration of Schutzstaffel (SS) national leader Heinrich
Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (Chef
der Deutschen Polizei) by Hitler, as the Gestapo by this time had
become a national rather than a Prussian state agency. From 27
September 1939 forward, it was then administered by the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (Reich Main Security Office), and
was considered a sister organisation to the SS Sicherheitsdienst
(SD) (Security Service). During World War II, the Gestapo played a
key role in the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. On
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April 26, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Carol
Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer, writer and producer,
whose career spans seven decades of television, best known for her
TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS,
is #born Carol Creighton Burnett at Nix Hospital in San Antonio,
Texas. She has achieved success on stage, television and film in
varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She has also
appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows.
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to
Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually
studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in
nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway
in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony
Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly
appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and
won her first Emmy Award in 1962. Burnett had her television
special debut in 1963 when she starred as Calamity Jane in the
Dallas State Fair Musicals production of Calamity Jane on CBS.
Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run
as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to
1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a
variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance.
The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces.
Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run,
and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe
Awards. During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in
many television and film projects. Her film roles include Pete 'n'
Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Four Seasons (1981),
Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008).
On television, she has appeared in other sketch shows; in dramatic
roles in 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) and Friendly Fire (1979); in various
well-regarded guest roles, such as in Mad About You, for which she
won an Emmy Award; and in specials with Julie Andrews, Dolly
Parton, Beverly Sills, and others. She returned to the Broadway
stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo, for which she was again
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1937: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Spanish Civil War: The Siege
Of Madrid: Air Warfare Of World War II: Strategic Bombing During
The Spanish Civil War: German Strategic Bombing During The Spanish
Civil War: Italian Strategic Bombing During The Spanish Civil War:
The Bombing Of Guernica (Operation Rugen): -- The ancient Basque
town of Guernica is bombed by warplanes of the Nazi German
Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione
Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rugen. It was carried
out at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government.
After destroying the town in a three hour bombing raid, the planes
machine-gunned fleeing citizens. The town was being used as a
communications center behind the frontline. The operation opened
the way to Franco's capture of the city of Bilbao and his victory
in northern Spain. The attack gained controversy because it
involved the bombing of civilians by a military air force. The
number of victims is still disputed; the Basque government
reported 1,654 people killed at the time, while local historians
identified 126 victims, later revised by the authors of the study
to 153. A British source used by the Air War College claims 400
civilians died. Soviet archives claim 800 deaths on 1 May 1937,
but this number may not include victims who later died of their
injuries in hospitals or whose bodies were discovered buried in
the rubble. The bombing is the subject of a famous anti-war
painting by Pablo Picasso, commissioned by the Spanish Republic.
It was also depicted in a woodcut by the German artist Heinz
Kiwitz, who was later killed fighting in the International
Brigades. The bombing shocked and inspired many other artists,
including a sculpture by Rene Iche, one of the first
electroacoustic music pieces by Patrick Ascione, a musical
composition by Renr-Louis Baron and poems by Paul Eluard (Victory
of Guernica), and Uys Krige (Nag van die Fascistiese Bomwerpers)
(English translation from the Afrikaans: Night of the Fascist
Bombers). There is also a short film from 1950 by Alain Resnais
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April 26, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Gary Wright,
American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboard player and
ketarist, pioneer the use of synthesizers in analog recordings and
the use of the keyboard-guitar hybrid known as the keytar, best
known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love
Is Alive" (d. September 4, 2023) is #born Gary Malcolm Wright
in Cresskill, New Jersey. A child actor, he made his TV debut at
the age of seven, on the show Captain Video and His Video Rangers,
filmed in New York City. He appeared in TV and radio commercials
before being offered a part in the 1954 Broadway production of the
musical Fanny. Wright played the role of Cesario, the son of
Fanny, who was played by future Brady Bunch matriarch Florence
Henderson. He spent two years with the production, during which he
performed with Henderson on The Ed Sullivan Show. Wright's
breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had
spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the
British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A &
M Records. While in England, he played keyboards on former Beatle
George Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), which
began a friendship that inspired the Indian religious themes and
spirituality inherent in Wright's subsequent songwriting. His work
from the late 1980s onwards embraced world music and the new age
genre, although none of his post-1976 releases matched the same
level of popularity as The Dream Weaver. Wright was a child actor
and performed on Broadway in the hit musical Fanny, before
studying medicine and then psychology in New York and Berlin
before establishing himself as a professional musician. After
meeting Chris Blackwell of Island Records in Europe, Wright moved
to London, where he helped establish Spooky Tooth as a popular
live act. He also served as the band's principal songwriter on
their recordings - among them, the well-regarded albums Spooky Two
(1969) and You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw (1973). His
solo album Footprint (1971), recorded with contributions from
Harrison, coincided with the formation of Wright's short-lived
band Wonderwheel, which included guitarist Mick Jones, later known
for his work with Foreigner. Also, during the early 1970s, Wright
played on notable recordings by B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo
Starr, Harry Nilsson, and Ronnie Spector, while his musical
association with Harrison endured until shortly before the
latter's death in 2001. Wright turned to film soundtrack work in
the early 1980s, including re-recording his most popular song,
"Dream Weaver", for the 1992 comedy Wayne's World.
Following Spooky Tooth's reunion tour in 2004, Wright performed
live frequently, either as a member of Starr's All-Starr Band,
with his own live band, or on subsequent Spooky Tooth reunions.
Wright's most recent solo albums, including Waiting to Catch the
Light (2008) and Connected (2010), have all been issued on his
Larklio record label. In 2014, Jeremy P. Tarcher published
Wright's autobiography, Dream Weaver: Music, Meditation, and My
Friendship with George Harrison. Wright died in Palos Verdes
Estates, California where he resided with his wife Rose, at the
age 80. Although no cause of death was officially reported when
Wright's death was first announced, he had been diagnosed with
Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease around six or seven
years earlier. His remains were cremated, and his cremains were
given to his widow Rose. #GaryWright! #Actors #Singers
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April 26, 1944: World War II: The Home
Front During World War II: The United States Home Front During
World War II: Corporate Seizures Of The United States Home Front
During World War II: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union Disputes):
Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour Strikes): The 1944
Montgomery Ward Strike: -- Four months into a nationwide strike by
Montgomery Ward and Company's 12,000 workers, U.S. Army troops
seize the company's Chicago offices because its chairman, Sewell
Avery, refused to settle the strike, as requested by the Roosevelt
administration because of its adverse effect on the delivery of
needed goods in wartime. Avery had refused to comply with a War
Labor Board order to recognize the CIO unions that called the
strike and institute the terms of a collective bargaining
agreement. Avery repeatedly opposed actions of Roosevelt's
National War Labor Board and opposed labor unions. He resisted
signing a contract after a union had won representation for 7,000
of Montgomery Ward's employees until twice ordered by Roosevelt.
Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to
recognize the unions and settle the strike, endangering the
delivery of essential goods, Roosevelt issued an executive order
to use emergency measures to remove him from office and
temporarily seize the company and all its propery nationwide,
citing the War Labor Disputes Act as well as his power under the
Constitution as commander-in-chief. Two National Guard men had to
pick him up by an arm each and carry him out of his office. Avery
yelled at the Attorney General, who had flown to meet with him and
try to avert a showdown, "To hell with the government, you...
New Dealer!". Sewell Avery was later implicated in the
so-called Business Plot to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1993.
Shortly before hearing began on November 20, 1934 before the
McCormack-Dickstein Committee (later known as the House
Un-American Activities Committee), in September of 1934, the newly
formed American Liberty League, made up of leaders and captains of
industry opposed to the president "fomenting class hatred"
and his handling of the Depression, released a statement that
dismissed claims made by Retired Marine Corps Major General
Smedley Butler that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a
fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use
it in a coup d'etat to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt..
Among the members of the ALL were Sewell Avery, the DuPonts, S.B.
Colgate, Alfred P. Sloan, former Secretary Of State Elihu Root and
John Raskob. Butler noticed Robert Sterling Clark's name on the
list, as well as Grayson M. P. Murphy, Gerald MacGuire's boss.
Also implicated in the plot was Al Smith, former New York governor
and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Prescott
Bush, a banker, future Connecticut senator, and father to George
H. W. Bush and grandfather to George W. Bush. In 1945, Truman
ended the seizure when unions won an election to represent the
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April 26, 1954: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Indochina Wars: The First Indochina War
(1946-1954) (The Indochina War, The Anti-French Resistance War):
The Korean Conflict: The 1954 Geneva Conference (The Geneva
Conference): -- In an effort to restore peace in Indochina and
Korea, The Geneva Conference (April 26 - July 20, 1954) begin in
Geneva, Switzerland, with diplomats from South Korea, North Korea,
the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and the United
States dealing with the Korean side of the conference, and France,
the Viet Minh, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China,
the United States, the United Kingdom, and the future states being
made from French Indochina dealing with the Indochina side. The
Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues
resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. The
part of the conference on the Korean question ended without
adopting any declarations or proposals, so is generally considered
less relevant. The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling
of French Indochina proved to have long-lasting repercussions,
however. The crumbling of the French Empire in Southeast Asia
would create the eventual states of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (the future Republic
of Vietnam / South Vietnam), the Kingdom of Cambodia, and the
Kingdom of Laos. Diplomats from South Korea, North Korea, the
People's Republic Of China (PRC), the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), and the United States of America (US) dealt with
the Korean side of the Conference. For the Indochina side, the
Accords were between France, the Viet Minh, the USSR, the PRC, the
US, the United Kingdom, and the future states being made from
French Indochina. The agreement temporarily separated Vietnam into
two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Viet Minh rebels,
and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam, then
headed by former emperor Bao Dai. A Conference Final Declaration,
issued by the British chairman of the conference, provided that a
general election be held by July 1956 to create a unified
Vietnamese state. Despite helping create the agreements, they were
not directly signed onto nor accepted by delegates of both the
State of Vietnam and the United States, decisions that were
ultimately to result in the Second Indochina War, otherwise known
as the Vietnam War. In addition, three separate ceasefire accords,
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1960: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean
Conflict: The Korean War: Aftermath Of The Korean War: The April
Revolution (Korean: 4.19 Hyeogmyeong) (The April 19 Revolution,
The April 19 Movement): -- President of South Korea Syngman Rhee
resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. On April 19, 1960,
students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest
against president Rhee, while ulitimately brought about his
resignation. The April Revolution, sometimes called the April 19
Revolution or April 19 Movement, was a popular uprising in April
1960, led by labor and student groups, which overthrew the
autocratic First Republic of South Korea under Syngman Rhee. It
led to the resignation of Rhee and the transition to the Second
Republic of South Korea. The events were touched off by the
discovery on April 11 in Masan Harbor of the body of a high school
student, Kim Ju-yul, killed by a tear-gas shell in demonstrations
against the elections of March 1960. The body was found in the
harbor at Masan by a fisherman. Kim had been a student at Masan
Commercial High School who had disappeared during the Masan
rioting of March 15. Authorities announced that an autopsy
confirmed that the cause of his death was drowning, but many
rejected this explanation. Some protesters forced their way into
the hospital. They found that Kim's skull had been split by a 20
centimeter-long tear-gas grenade which had penetrated from Kim's
eyes to the back of his head, which indicated that the police had
shot the tear gas to an angle less than 45 degrees, which could be
fatal if shot directly at a person's face. Rhee's regime tried to
censor news of this incident, however the story was reported by
the Korean press along with a picture of Kim when his body was
first found, and delivered to the world through AP. This incident
shocked the nation and became the basis of a national movement
against electoral corruption on April 19. Masan erupted into three
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1962: Outer Space Firsts: --
The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The
Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon:
Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The United States Space Program:
The Ranger Program: Ranger 4: -- The dubious honor of being the
first spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon is acquired by
NASA's Ranger 4 as its onboard computer failed, preventing the
deployment of its solar panels and the operation of its navigation
system, preventing it from returning any scientific data.
Nevertheless, it was the first spacecraft of the United States to
reach another celestial body, and the excellent performance of the
Atlas-Agena booster had also raised morale as it performed
flawlessly for the first time. Ranger 4, launched from Cape
Canaveral Launch Complex 12 (LC-12) atop a Atlas LV-3 Agena-B
rocket at 20:50:00 UTC, was virtually identical in design to
Ranger 3, and was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar
surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight
prior to crashing upon the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer
capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study
radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26, 1989: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: Democracy Movements Of China : The
Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations,
The Fall Of Communism): The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests And
Massacre (The June Fourth Incident [Chinese: Liusi Shijian, "The
Six-Four Incident"], The Tiananmen Square Massacre, The '89
Democracy Movement, The Tiananmen Square Incident, The Tiananmen
Uprising): The April 26 Editorial: -- The Chinese newspaper The
People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the
nascent Tiananmen Square protests, leading the following day to
the The April 27 Demonstrations, massive student-led protests
which occured in response to the editorial. The April 26
Editorial, the first authoritative document from the top
leadership on the growing movement, defined the student movement
as a destabilizing anti-party revolt that should be resolutely
opposed at all levels of society. It was widely interpreted as
having communicated the party's position of "no-tolerance"
to student protesters and their sympathizers. The content of the
editorial incited the largest student protest of the movement thus
far in Beijing: 50,000-200,000 students marched through the
streets of Beijing before finally breaking through police lines
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Today, April 26, 2026
April 26: National Gabriel Day: -- Day to
celebrate and honor all the Gabriels out there. There are so many
great Gabriels out there to celebrate and you could be one of
them! While this name is strongly related to religion, many
non-religious people choose this name for their children. So, if
your name is Gabriel, take yourself out on a date and enjoy your
own company. If you know a Gabriel, spend the day doing their
favorite thing with them. Gabriel is a Hebrew name meaning "The
Strength Of God"; as such, the archangel Gabriel also known
as St. Gabriel, is a major figure in Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. He is known for having visited the Virgin Mary, informing
her of her virgin birth and telling her that she will bear the son
of God. He is also known in Islam for visiting Prophet Muhammed
and revealing the "Quran" to him. This strong and
underrated name was uncommon in the twentieth century. It soared
during the 2000s and made to the 50 boy names on the Social
Security Administration's list. The name Gabriel floated to the
top 30 between 2005 and 2016 and has since stayed one of the most
famous boy names internationally. This is a great choice for those
wanting a strong name for their child that isn't boring or
overused. Gabriel is currently number 490 in the Top 1,000 most
common names in the U.S. with 113,607 people given this name. This
name is used as a male's name 98% and as a first name 80% of the
time. Nearly 60% of Americans given this name are Hispanic and
about 32% are white. This name is popular in the U.S., the U.K.,
Scotland, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. The feminine
versions 'Gabrielle' and 'Gabriella' is just as popular. Its most
common nickname is 'Gabe' for a boy and 'Gabby' for a girl. The
name also has many variations throughout the world, the most
common being 'Jebreel' in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Indonesian, and
Somali. It can be pronounced as 'Gay-bree-uhl' or 'Gah-bree-elle,'
the latter pronunciation being more popular in Hebrew and Spanish.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26: National Jason Day: -- A common
first name in most English-speaking countries, the name is
borrowed from the Greek 'Iason,' which means 'healer.' There are
more than 900,000 people named Jason in the U.S. alone, and over
70,000 of them are located in California. It has been a favorite
boy's name since its appearance in Greek mythology and later in
Christian theology. Actors like Jason Bateman, Jason Momoa, Jason
Sudeikis, and singers like Jason Mraz and Jason Derulo represent
some of the most prominent personalities with the name. Jason of
the Argonauts is the first notable mention of the name in history.
The epic tale of this hero on his journey to claim the Golden
Fleece is outlined in various Greek literary works. Like many
Greco-Roman heroic tragedies, the story's objective is to teach
the reader, through the protagonist, the values of compassion and
humility, and that one must always fear the gods. Jason's tale was
immortalized in the 1963 film "Jason and the Argonauts"
and the 2000 television series of the same name. In 2002, the
world was introduced to a modern hero, Jason Bourne. Dubbed
America's response to James Bond, Bourne characterized the haunted
super-spy action hero in real-time. If Jason Bourne defined the
action hero, Jason Voorhees was the ultimate villain. First
introduced on "Friday the 13th" in the 1980s, the horror
movie franchise reinvented itself in 2009. "Freddy vs Jason,"
"Jason X," a 2009 remake of "Friday the 13th,"
and "His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th,"
all came out that year. Despite never saying a word, Voorhees left
a big impression on audiences and remains one of the most
instantly recognizable bad guys over a decade later. Serious roles
aren't all that Jason's are known for. Jason Jordan Segel, who
played Marshall Eriksen on the CBS series "How I Met Your
Mother," perfectly captured the awkward but adorable best
friend we all want. His spontaneity, heartwarming pep talks, and
appealing personality were envied and admired equally. Segel also
wrote and starred in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall,"
playing the role of Peter Bretter, a television show music
composer.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26: National Help A Horse Day: --
Today we're saddling up to create awareness around taking better
care of horses. Horses hold a high status in the United States and
this day endeavors to encourage people to come together and
safeguard these beloved animals from any neglect. Back in 2013,
the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
launched an equine campaign in the form of Help a Horse Day to
create awareness and promote the protection of neglected and
abused horses across the country. National Help a Horse Day has
more than one purpose. This day also serves as a national day of
acknowledgment for equine organizations to highlight the work they
do to save at-risk horses. Moreover, it even showcases how people
can join them to make a difference in the equine community.
Thousands of horses across the country are abandoned and face poor
care. Although rescues and shelters work round the clock to take
care of them, these organizations still need adequate support to
sustain their efforts. Thus, ever since the launch of National
Help a Horse Day, many programs have been and continue to be
conceptualized to build a better life for horses.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26: Hug An Australian Day: -- An
international holiday whose idea is really simple; share a hug
with an Australian friend! A hug is a physical display of
affection. It has been proven to have a positive psychological
effect on both parties. It's an easy way to share feelings of
love, support, comfort, and happiness. A hug from a loved one or
even a stranger can significantly enhance a person's mood. Nothing
communicates affection and care quite as a hug does so go ahead,
share hugs; enjoy hugs. Hug an Australian Day is a copyrighted
holiday that was launched by Ruth and Thomas Roy. They believed it
was important to set aside a day to simply appreciate the
Australians in our lives. Australians are friendly, helpful people
who are well known and loved by people all around the world.
Australia is an old and solid nation. For at least 50,000 years,
Aboriginal Australians have lived in the nation and thrived. This
makes it so that they have the oldest living cultural history in
the world. In 1788, there were about 250 different languages
spoken across the country. This was around when the British
arrived. At that time, there were between 300,000 and one million
Aboriginal people living in Australia. A map of the languages used
across Australia was created by the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 1851, Gold was
discovered in Australia first at Bathurst, then at Ballarat. This
gave the economy a kickstart and made Australia a desirable
location. A rebellion against taxation called the Eureka Stockade
in Ballarat, took place in 1854. This is considered to be a
crucial event in the evolution of Australia's democracy. The
citizens were ready to stand up for themselves and demand a fairer
system. In 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia was officially
established and the country became a federation. It was agreed by
the Australian government that the capital could be in NSW. The
condition was that it couldn't be any closer than 100 kilometers
or 62.137 miles from Sydney. A temporary parliament called
'Canberra' was set up in Melbourne for 27 years.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Count Basie,
influentential African American jazz pianist, organist,
bandleader, and composer (b. August 21, 1904) #dies of pancreatic
cancer in Hollywood, Florida, on April 26, 1984, at the age of 79.
Count Basie was born William James Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey,
a town he maintained a special relationship with all his life.
Dropping out of school, he learned to improvise accompaniment for
silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red
Bank, New Jersey. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing
career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of
Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie
Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's
death in 1935. In 1935, Basie formed the Count Basie Orchestra,
and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their
first recording. He created innovations like the use of two
"split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm
section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their
sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his
direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and
Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck
Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy
Rushing and Joe Williams.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1956: #DOTD: #RIP: Edward
Arnold, American actor and star of radio and film (b. February 18,
1890) #dies at his home in Encino, California, at age 66 from a
cerebral hemorrhage associated with atrial fibrillation. He is
interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery located in the
Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
Edward Arnold was born Gunther Edward Arnold on the Lower East
Side of New York City, the son of German immigrants Elizabeth
(Ohse) and Carl Schneider. His schooling came at the East Side
Settlement House. Interested in acting since his youth (he made
his first stage appearance at the age of 12 as Lorenzo in The
Merchant of Venice), Arnold made his professional stage debut in
1907. He found work as an extra for Essanay Studios and World
Studios, before landing his first significant role in 1916's The
Misleading Lady. In 1919, he left film for a return to the stage,
and did not appear again in movies until he made his talkie debut
in Okay America! (1932). He recreated one of his stage roles in
one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark (1933). He starred
in the 1934 American political drama film The President Vanishes,
which was named by the National Legion of Decency - an
organization of the United States Catholic Church - as one of
Hollywood's problematic and "immoral" films. It was his
role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim that boosted him to stardom. He
reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian
Russell. He also played a similar role in The Toast of New York
(1937), another fictionalized version of real-life business
chicanery, for which he was billed above Cary Grant in the posters
with his name in much larger letters. Arnold appeared in over 150
movies. Although he was labeled "box office poison" in
1938 by an exhibitor publication (he shared this dubious
distinction with Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae
West, Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn), he never lacked for
work. Rather than continue in leading man roles, he gave up losing
weight and went after character parts instead. Arnold was quoted
as saying, "The bigger I got, the better character roles I
received." He was such a sought-after actor, he often worked
on two pictures at the same time. Arnold was an expert at playing
rogues and authority figures, and superb at combining the two as
powerful villains quietly pulling strings. He was best known for
his roles in Come and Get It (1936), Sutter's Gold (1936), the
aforementioned The Toast of New York (1937), You Can't Take It
with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John
Doe (1941), and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). He was the
first actor to portray Rex Stout's famous detective Nero Wolfe,
starring in Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), the film based on the first
novel in the series. He played blind detective Duncan Maclain in
two movies based on the novels by Baynard Kendrick, Eyes in the
Night (1942) and The Hidden Eye (1945). Arnold made a posthumous
cameo in the 1984 film Gremlins as the deceased husband (visible
in a large framed photograph) of Mrs. Deagle, a character much
like the rich, heartless characters Arnold was known for. Director
Joe Dante mentioned that they received permission from Arnold's
family to use his image. From 1947 to 1953, Arnold starred in the
ABC radio program Mr. President. He also played a lawyer, "Mr.
Reynolds," in The Charlotte Greenwood Show. In 1953, he was
host of Spotlight Story on Mutual. Arnold was host for Your Star
Showcase, a series of 52 half-hour television dramas released by
Television Programs of America." The series was launched
January 1, 1954, to run in 1950 cities. He also co-starred in
"Ever Since the Day," an episode of Ford Theatre on NBC.
Arnold was married three times: Harriet Marshall (1917-1927), with
whom he had three children: Elizabeth, Jane and William (who had a
short movie career as Edward Arnold Jr.); Olive Emerson
(1929-1948) and Cleo McLain (1951 until his death). Midwestern
University awarded Arnold an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on
May 24, 1951. Arnold has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
located at 6225 Hollywood Blvd.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1968: The American Civil Rights
Movement: Black Power: The Black Power Movement (Black Liberation
Movement): The Counterculture Of The 1960s: Student Rights:
Student Rights In Higher Education: Student Activism (Campus
Activism): Student Protest (Campus Protest) The Protests Of 1968:
The Ohio State University Administration Building Seizure: -- At
exactly 9 a.m. Friday April 26, some 60 Black Student Union (BSU)
members entered the office of Gordon B. Carson, vice president of
business and finance, armed with a list of demands and an
ultimatum that they all be met by 12 p.m. May 3 or 'the black
people shall cease arbitration." When Carson was unable to
produce any concrete answers to solve their problems, the students
decided to stay until he could. The seizure came as a direct
result of apathy and under-action on the part of the Ohio State
administrators to resolve grievances presented them in early
February. The grievances asked for Negro university administrators
and counselors, fair housing in apartments around campus, courses
in Negro History, and placement of foreign exchange African
students in Negro family homes. John Sidney Evans was the
spokesman for the Black Student Union at the time of the protests.
He, like 33 of his peers, was expelled and criminally charged for
the takeover of the administration building. All had to fight to
clear their names and reverse their expulsions.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Mason Adams,
American character actor and voice-over artist (b. February 26,
1919) #dies of natural causes aged 86 in Manhattan, New York, aged
86. His remains were cremated; the final disposition of his ashes
are not publicly disclosed. Mason Adams was born Mason Abrams in
Brooklyn, New York into a Russian Jewish immigrant family, and
grew up in Sheepshead Bay. He was heard rom the late 1940s until
the early 1970s in numerous radio programs and voiceovers for
television commercials. In the early 1970s he moved into acting
and from 1977 to 1982 held perhaps his most known role, that of
Managing Editor Charlie Hume on Lou Grant. He also acted in
numerous other television and movie roles, most prominently Omen
III: The Final Conflict (1981) and F/X (1986). Adams was born in
Brooklyn, New York. He earned an MA degree from the University of
Michigan in Theatre Arts and Speech and also attended the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying theater arts. He made
his stage debut in 1940, appearing in summer stock at Baltimore's
Hilltop Theater. Adams was heard on many radio programs during
Radio's Golden Age. A notable recurring role was that of Pepper
Young in Pepper Young's Family, which aired from 1947 to 1959. He
also portrayed the deadly Nazi Atom Man in a classic 1945 serial
on the radio version of The Adventures of Superman. During the
1960s, Adams was ubiquitous as a voiceover actor in television
commercials for foods and household products, most notably for
Chiffon margarine and Crest toothpaste ("Helps stop cavities
before they start"). He also did the vocal part of the
television commercials for Smucker's preserves ("With a name
like Smucker's, it has to be good!"), a role he resumed in
his later years. His voiceover work resumed in the 1980s when he
began providing the voiceover for Cadbury Creme eggs, which were
advertised on television with Adams' catchy slogan, "Nobunny
knows Easter better than him [the Cadbury Bunny]." Also in
the 1980s, Adams did voice-over TV commercials for
Sherwin-Williams Paints, as well as radio commercials for the
Salvation Army. In addition, Adams was the narrator for Kix
commercials in the 1990s as well as a few Dentyne commercials and
a few Swanson commercials. He was also the announcer for a 1992
WCBS-TV news promo, as well as a 1986 Lysol commercial. In the
early 1990s, he narrated Frontiers of Flight, a Discovery Channel
series on milestones of aviation. In one of the early episodes of
Sesame Street, he voiced a cartoon featuring a "jazzy"
triangle and a "square" square. He voiced those two, as
well as being the narrator, with jazz music in the background.
This cartoon was repeated on the show for many years, well into
the 1980s. During the 1970s, Adams was a co-star of the NBC soap
opera Another World and in 1976 he was in the original 1976
Broadway cast for Checking Out. Following that he landed perhaps
his most famous role, Managing Editor Charlie Hume in the
television series Lou Grant, which aired from 1977 to 1982.
Appearing in the show for its entire run, he landed three straight
Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in 1979, 1980 and
1981, each year alongside his Lou Grant co-star Robert Walden, who
played reporter Joe Rossi. During his run on Lou Grant, Adams
performed perhaps his most often seen role, as the US president in
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981). He also appeared in popular
TV movies, such as The Deadliest Season (1977), Revenge of the
Stepford Wives (1980) and The Kid with the Broken Halo (1982). In
1983, Adams joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory
Company for their first repertory season, appearing in Paradise
Lost, Rain, Inheritors, and The Hasty Heart. This season was
presented initially Off-Off-Broadway at The Real Stage Acting
School and was moved Off-Broadway to the Theatre at St. Peter's
Church. In 1986, he starred as Col. Edward Mason, one of his most
famous feature film roles, in the movie F/X starring Bryan Brown
and Brian Dennehy, and in 1991 he appeared in the action movie Toy
Soldiers. In 1993, Adams starred as Walter Warner Sr. in the movie
Son in Law starring Pauly Shore, and after that he had roles in
Houseguest (1995), Touch (1997) and The Lesser Evil (1998). In the
1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon he played Senator
Clinton P. Anderson. His final role was in the series finale of
Oz.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD: Warren
Clarke, English actor, director, and producer who appeared in many
films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A
Clockwork Orange (d. November 12, 2014) is #born Alan James Clarke
in Oldham, Lancashire, England. His television appearances
included Dalziel and Pascoe (1996-2007 TV crime drama series) (as
Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel) , The Manageress (1989-1990
TV series), Sleepers (1991 TV miniseries), and Poldark (2015 TV
series). Warren Clarke died of an undisclosed illness in
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, aged 67. He was cremated,
and his ashes were given to his family. In 2014 he began filming
Poldark as Charles Poldark. The character's final scene in the
series, in episode four in which Poldark lies on his deathbed
before dying, was also Clarke's final scene as an actor; he was
very ill at the time of filming and died a few weeks later; the
first episode of the television series was then dedicated to his
memory. Warren Clarke dies penniless after a successful 50-year
career. He died with a gross estate of 13,056 Pounds Sterling;
however, after his outstanding affairs were settled, this was
reduced to a figure of nil. The actor had reportedly made a will
that left his estate to wife Michele and, if she did not survive
him, it was to be shared between his daughter Georgia and son
Rowan. He had spoken previously of wanting to change his career as
he felt he did not earn enough.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1865: United States
Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: The Assassination
Plots Against Abraham Lincoln: The Assassination Of Abraham
Lincoln: -- #DOTD: Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead
John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of President
Lincoln, who #dies in Port Royal, Virginia, aged 26. John Wilkes
Booth, American actor and assassin, who murdered US President
Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14,
1865 (b. May 10, 1838) was born a member of the prominent
19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland to noted
British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress,
Mary Ann Holmes, in Bel Air, Maryland. By the 1860s, he too was a
well-known actor, as were his brothers Edwin and Junius Brutus Jr.
John Wilkes Booth was also a Confederate sympathizer, vehement in
his denunciation of Lincoln, and strongly opposed to the abolition
of slavery in the United States. Booth and a group of
co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln but later
planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary
Of State William H. Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's
cause. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered
four days earlier, but Booth believed that the American Civil War
was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's
army was still fighting the Union Army. Of the conspirators, only
Booth was completely successful in carrying out his part of the
plot. He shot Lincoln once in the back of the head, and the
President died the next morning. Seward was severely wounded but
recovered, and Vice President Johnson was never attacked at all.
Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern
Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern
Virginia 12 days later, where he was tracked down. Booth's
companion gave himself up, but Booth refused and was shot by
Boston Corbett, a Union soldier, after the barn in which he was
hiding was set ablaze. Eight other conspirators or suspects were
tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1962: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The
Lockheed A-12 high-altitude, Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft built
for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by
Lockheed's Skunk Works, based on the designs of Clarence "Kelly"
Johnson. The aircraft was designated A-12, the 12th in a series of
internal design efforts for "Archangel", the aircraft's
internal code name. In 1959, it was selected over Convair's FISH
and Kingfish designs as the winner of Project GUSTO, and was
developed and operated under Project Oxcart. The CIA's
representatives initially favored Convair's design for its smaller
radar cross-section, but the A-12's specifications were slightly
better and its projected cost was much lower. The companies'
respective track records proved decisive. Convair's work on the
B-58 had been plagued with delays and cost overruns, whereas
Lockheed had produced the U-2 on time and under budget. In
addition, Lockheed had experience running a "black"
project. The A-12 was produced from 1962 to 1964 and flew from
1963 to 1968. It was the precursor to the twin-seat U.S. Air Force
YF-12 prototype interceptor, M-21 launcher for the D-21 drone, and
the SR-71 Blackbird, a slightly longer variant able to carry a
heavier fuel and camera load. The A-12 began flying missions in
1967 and its final mission was in May 1968; the program and
aircraft were retired in June. The program was officially revealed
in the mid-1990s. A CIA officer later wrote, "Oxcart was
selected from a random list of codenames to designate this R &
D and all later work on the A-12. The aircraft itself came to be
called that as well." The crews named the A-12 the Cygnus,
suggested by pilot Jack Weeks to follow the Lockheed practice of
naming aircraft after celestial bodies.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Duane Eddy,
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. April 30,
2024) is #born in Corning, New York. In the late 1950s and early
1960s, he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood,
which were noted for their characteristically "twangy"
sound, including "Rebel-'Rouser", "Peter Gunn",
and "Because They're Young". He had sold 12 million
records by 1963. He had sold 12 million records by 1963. His
guitar style influenced the Ventures, the Shadows, the Beatles
(particularly lead guitarist George Harrison), Bruce Springsteen,
Steve Earle, and Marty Stuart. He was inducted into The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and
Museum in 2008. Eddy died of cancer in Franklin, Tennessee, four
days after his 86th birthday. His cremains were given to his widow
Deed Abbate. Eddy was the last surviving musician to have charted
in the top 10 of the first-ever issue of the Billboard Hot 100
chart in 1958.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Bobby
Rydell, American singer and actor (d. April 5, 2022) is #born
Robert Louis Ridarelli into an Italian family in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. In 1950, he won a talent show on the television
series Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club and gained a spot on the cast,
where he remained for several years. He changed his name to Bobby
Rydell and played in several bands in the Philadelphia area. In
the early 1960s, he was a teen idol of rock and roll music. His
most well-known songs include "Wild One" and "Volare"
(cover), and he appeared in the movie Bye Bye Birdie in 1963.
Bobby Rydell died from complications of pneumonia at Jefferson
Abington Hospital in Abington Township, Pennsylvania, aged 79. He
is buried at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springfield,
Pennsylvania.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Maurice
Williams, African American doo-wop/R & B singer-songwriter
(Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs) (d. August 6, 2024) is #born in
Lancaster, South Carolina. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were
an American doo-wop/R & B vocal group in the late 1950s and
early 1960s. Originally the (Royal) Charms, the band changed its
name to the Gladiolas in 1957 and the Excellos in 1958, before
finally settling on the Zodiacs in 1959. He had his first hit in
1959 with "Little Darlin''". The song hit No. 11 on
Billboard's R & B charts and went to No. 41 on the Top 100,
followed by the more famous version recorded Canadian band The
Diamonds that went to No. 2 overall. Williams had an even bigger
hit, "Stay," which went to No. 1 in 1960, sold millions
of copies, and was revived in 1987 when it was featured in the
film "Dirty Dancing." It was also covered by artists
such as Jackson Browne, the Hollies, and the Four Seasons.
Williams followed those songs with "May I," a 1961
release that also became popular. Williams continued to record,
tour, and release music until his death. He was inducted into the
North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010. He also made several
performances for the PBS "Doo Wop 50" show series in
2001. Maurice Williams died at the age of 86. His death and burial
details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Jack
Valenti, American soldier, airman, businessman, political advisor,
Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, lobbyist,
creator of the MPAA film rating system (b. September 5, 1921)
#dies at the age of 85 at his home in Washington from stroke
complications. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery under a
veteran's gravestone, which lists both his war decorations and his
years as president of the MPAA. His memoirs This Time, This Place:
My Life in War, the White House and Hollywood were published on
May 15, 2007, only a few weeks after his death. He was born Jack
Joseph Valentiin Houston, Texas, the son of Italian immigrants.
During World War II, he was a first lieutenant in the United
States Army Air Force. Valenti flew 51 combat missions as the
pilot-commander of a B-25 medium bomber and received four
decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air
Medal. Valenti graduated from the University of Houston in 1946
with a BBA. During his time there, he worked on the staff of the
university newspaper, The Daily Cougar, and was president of the
university's student government. Valenti would later serve on the
university's board of regents. After earning an M.B.A. from
Harvard University in 1948, Valenti went to work for Humble Oil in
its advertising department, where he helped the company's Texas
gas stations jump from fifth to first in sales through a "cleanest
restrooms" campaign. In 1952, he and a partner named Weldon
Weekley founded Weekley & Valenti, an advertising agency, with
oil company, Conoco, as its first client. In 1956, Valenti met
then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Weekley &
Valenti branched out into political consulting and added
Representative Albert Thomas, a Johnson ally, as a client. In
1960, Valenti's firm assisted in the Kennedy-Johnson presidential
campaign. Valenti served as liaison with the news media during the
November 22, 1963, visit of President John F. Kennedy and
Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson to Dallas, Texas, and Valenti was
in the presidential motorcade. Following the assassination of
President Kennedy, Valenti was present in the famous photograph of
Lyndon Johnson's swearing in aboard Air Force One, and flew with
the new president to Washington. He then became the first "special
assistant" to Johnson's White House and lived in the White
House for the first two months of Johnson's presidency. In 1964,
Johnson gave Valenti the responsibility to handle relations with
the Republican Congressional leadership, particularly Gerald Ford
and Charles Halleck from the House of Representatives, and the
Senate's Everett Dirksen. Valenti later called Johnson "the
most single dominating human being that I've ever been in contact
with" and "the single most intelligent man I've ever
known". In a speech before the American Advertising
Federation in 1965, Valenti said: "I sleep each night a
little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson
is my president." Valenti later attacked film director Oliver
Stone for the 1991 movie JFK. Valenti called the movie a
"monstrous charade" and said, "I owe where I am
today to Lyndon Johnson. I could not live with myself if I stood
by mutely and let some filmmaker soil his memory." In 1966,
Valenti, at the insistence of Universal Studios chief Lew
Wasserman, and with Johnson's consent, resigned his White House
commission and became the president of the Motion Picture
Association of America. With Valenti's arrival in Hollywood, the
pair were lifelong allies, and together orchestrated and
controlled how Hollywood would conduct business for the next
several decades. In 1968, Valenti developed the MPAA film rating
system, which initially comprised four distinct ratings: G, M, R
and X. The M rating was soon replaced by GP, and changed to PG in
1972. The X rating immediately proved troublesome, since it was
not trademarked and therefore was used freely by the pornography
industry, with which it became most associated. Films such as
Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange were assumed to be
pornographic because they carried the X rating. In 1990 the NC-17
rating was introduced as a trademarked "adults only"
replacement for the non-trademarked X-rating. The PG-13 rating was
added in 1984 to provide a greater range of distinction for
audiences, and was first proposed to Valenti by Steven Spielberg.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Valenti became notorious
for his flamboyant attacks on the Sony Betamax Video Cassette
Recorder (VCR), which the MPAA feared would devastate the movie
industry. He famously told a congressional panel in 1982, "I
say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the
American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home
alone." Despite Valenti's prediction, the home video market
ultimately came to be the mainstay of movie studio revenues
throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998, Valenti lobbied for the
controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, arguing that
copyright infringement via the Internet would severely damage the
record and movie industries. In 2003, Valenti found himself at the
center of the so-called screener debate, as the MPAA barred
studios and many independent producers from sending screener
copies of their films to critics and voters in various awards
shows. Under mounting industry pressure and a court injunction
Antidote Int'l Films Inc. et al. v MPAA (November 2003), Valenti
backed down in 2004, narrowly avoiding a massive and embarrassing
antitrust lawsuit against the MPAA.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 1478: #DOTD: #RIP: The Pazzi
Conspiracy: -- The Pazzi family attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de'
Medici and his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence
Cathedral before a crowd of 10,000. Lorenzo was wounded but
survived; Giuliano was killed. The failure of the plot served to
strengthen the position of the Medici. The Pazzi were banished
from Florence. The Pazzi Conspiracy (Italian: Congiura dei Pazzi,
"Conspiracy of the Pazzi", literally "Conspiracy of
the Madmen") was a plot by members of the Pazzi and Salviati
families and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of
Renaissance Florence. The Salviati, Papal bankers in Florence,
were at the centre of the conspiracy. They again were influenced
by Pope Sixtus IV, who was an enemy of the Medici. As with all
medieval intrigues and politics, the story is hyper-convoluted,
but stated as succintly as possible: Francesco della Rovere, who
came from a poor family in Liguria, was elected pope in 1471. As
Pope Sixtus IV, he was both wealthy and powerful, and at once set
about giving power and wealth to his nephews of two different
families: the della Rovere family, and the Riario family. Within
months of his election, he had made Giuliano della Rovere (the
future Pope Julius II) and Pietro Riario both cardinals and
bishops; four other nephews were also made cardinals. He made
Giovanni della Rovere, who was not a priest, prefect of Rome, and
arranged for him to marry into the da Montefeltro family, dukes of
Urbino, a walled city in the Marche region of Italy. For Girolamo
Riario, also a layman - and who may in fact have been Pope Sixtus
IV's son rather than his nephew - he arranged to buy small town of
Imola in Romagna, Italy, with the aim of establishing a new papal
state in that area. Imola lay on the trade route between Florence
and Venice, and therefore stratetically placed. Lorenzo de' Medici
had arranged in May 1473 to buy it from the Duke Of Milan,
Galeazzo Maria Sforza, for 100,000 fiorini d'oro, but Duke Sforza
subsequently agreed to sell it instead to Pope Sixtus IV for
40,000 ducats, provided that his beautiful illegitimate daughter,
Caterina Sforza, was married to Pope Sixtus IV's son/nephew
Girolamo Riario, a marriage that would result in their two
families being the rulers of Imola, and preventing the Medici from
obtaining this strategic town. The purchase between Pope Sixtus IV
and the Duke Of Milan Sforza for the town of Imola was financed by
the Pazzi bank, even though Francesco de' Pazzi had promised
Lorenzo de' Medici they would not aid the Pope. As a reward,
Sixtus IV assigned to the Pazzi bank lucrative rights to manage
Papal revenues. Accordingly, Sixtus IV appointed his nephew/son
Riario as the new Governor Of Imola, and appointed Francesco
Salviati, of the Papal banking family of Florence, as archbishop
of Pisa, a city that was a former commercial rival but now subject
to Florence. Lorenzo de' Medici therefore refused to permit
Francesco Salviati to enter Pisa, because of the challenge his
ecclesiastical position as Archbishop presented to his own
government in Florence. Because of the opposition of Lorenzo de'
Medici to the purchase of Imola, the marriage arrangements made
between the Pope and the Duke Of Milan, the appointment of the
Papal banker Salviati as Archbishop of Piza and the financial and
political arragements involved in all of this, a plan to
assassinate Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici was put together by
Girolamo Riario, Francesco Salviati and Francesco de' Pazzi. Pope
Sixtus was approached for his support. He made a very carefully
worded statement in which he said that in the terms of his holy
office he was unable to sanction killing. He made it clear that it
would be of great benefit to the papacy to have the Medici removed
from their position of power in Florence, and that he would deal
kindly with anyone who did this. He instructed the men to do what
they deemed necessary to achieve this aim, and said that he would
give them whatever support he could. An encrypted letter in the
archives of the Ubaldini family, discovered and decoded in 2004,
reveals that Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, a renowned
humanist and condottiere for the Papacy, was deeply embroiled in
the conspiracy and had committed to position 600 troops outside
Florence, waiting for the right moment. The Medici brothers were
assaulted on Sunday, April 26, 1478, during High Mass at the Duomo
(Florence Cathedral). Giuliano de' Medici was stabbed 19 times and
received a sword wound to the head from Bernardo Bandini dei
Baroncelli, an Italian merchant and one of the instigators of
conspiracy, and Francesco de' Pazzi. As Giuliano bled to death on
the cathedral floor, his brother Lorenzo escaped with serious, but
not life-threatening, wounds. Lorenzo was locked safely in the
sacristy by Angelo Poliziano, an Italian classical scholar and
poet of the Florentine Renaissance. A coordinated attempt to
capture the Gonfaloniere of Justice (in charge of the internal
security forces and the maintenance of public order) and the
Signoria (the governmening officials of Florence) was thwarted
when the archbishop and head of the Salviati clan were trapped in
a room where the doors were held by a hidden latch. The coup
d'etat had failed. Most of the conspirators were soon caught and
summarily executed; five, including Francesco de' Pazzi and
Salviati, were hanged from the windows of the Palazzo della
Signoria. Jacopo de' Pazzi, head of the family, escaped from
Florence but was caught and brought back. He was tortured, then
hanged from the Palazzo della Signoria next to the decomposing
corpse of Salviati. He was buried at Santa Croce, but the body was
dug up and thrown into a ditch. It was then dragged through the
streets and propped up at the door of Palazzo Pazzi, where the
rotting head was mockingly used as a door-knocker. From there it
was thrown into the Arno; children fished it out and hung it from
a willow tree, flogged it, and then threw it back into the river.
Although Lorenzo appealed to the crowd not to exact summary
justice, many of the conspirators, as well as many people accused
of being conspirators, were killed. Lorenzo did manage to save the
nephew of Sixtus IV, Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who was almost
certainly an innocent pawn of the conspirators, as well as two
relatives of the conspirators. The main conspirators were hunted
down throughout Italy. Between April 26, the day of the attack,
and October 20 1478, a total of eighty people were executed.
Bandini dei Baroncelli, who had escaped to Constantinople, was
arrested and returned in fetters by the Sultan Mehmed II, and -
still in Turkish clothing - was hanged from a window of the
Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo on December 29. 1479, an execution
drawn by eyewitness Leonardo da Vinci. The Pazzi were banished
from Florence, and their lands and property confiscated. Their
name and their coat of arms were perpetually suppressed. The name
was erased from public registers, and all buildings and streets
carrying it were renamed. Their shield with its dolphins was
everywhere obliterated. Anyone named Pazzi had to take a new name;
anyone married to a Pazzi was barred from public office. Guglielmo
de' Pazzi, husband of Lorenzo's sister Bianca, was placed under
house arrest, and later forbidden to enter the city; he went to
live at Torre a Decima, near Pontassieve. In the aftermath of the
"Pazzi" conspiracy, Pope Sixtus IV placed Florence under
interdict for the execution of Archbishop Salviati, forbidding
Mass and communion. Sixtus enlisted the King of Naples, Ferdinand
I, the traditional Papal military arm, to attack Florence. With no
help coming from Florence's traditional allies in Bologna and
Milan, Lorenzo faced with dire prospects and took an unorthodox
course of action: he sailed to Naples and put himself in the hands
of the king, remaining in his custody for three months. Lorenzo's
courage and charisma convinced Ferdinand I to support Lorenzo's
attempts at brokering a peace and intercede, albeit ineffectually,
with Sixtus IV. The events of the Pazzi conspiracy affected the
developments of the Medici regime in two ways: they convinced the
supporters of the Medici that a greater concentration of political
power was desirable and they strengthened the hand of Lorenzo de'
Medici, who had demonstrated his keen ability in conducting the
foreign affairs of the city. Emboldened, the Medicean party
carried out new reforms. After the overthrow of Piero de' Medici
in 1494, the Pazzi family and many other political exiles returned
to Florence to participate in the popular government.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26 , 1476: #DOTD: #RIP: Simonetta
Vespucci, nicknamed "La Bella Simonetta" (Italian: "The
Beautiful Simonetta"), Italian noblewoman from Genoa, wife of
Marco Vespucci of Florence, cousin-in-law of Florentine explorer
and navigator Amerigo Vespucci after whom America is named, known
as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, the alleged model for
many paintings, such as: Sandro Botticelli's Venus and Flora in
"The Birth Of Venus", Venus and one of The Three Graces
in "Primavera", and two "Portrait Of A Woman"
paintings from his workshop; Piero Di Cosimo's nymph in "A
Satyr Mourning Over A Nymph" and "Portrait Of A Woman"
("Portrait Of Simonetta Vespucci") (b. c. 1453) #dies
during the overnight of April 26-27 at the tender age of in
Florence. She was carried through the city in an open coffin for
all to admire, and there may have existed a posthumous cult about
her in Florence. Traditionally, it was thought that her death was
caused by tuberculosis. In 2019, a team of medical historians
argued that the supposed portraits of Simonetta show evidence that
she suffered from a pituitary adenoma (a tumor in the pituitary
gland) secreting Prolactin (best known for its role in enabling
mammals to produce milk) and Human Growth Hormone (HGH); the
increase in tumor volume led her to death. She is buried in the
Chiesa Di San Salvatore Di Ognissanti, Or More Simply Chiesa Di
Ognissanti (Italian: "Church Of All Saints"), a
Franciscan church located on the piazza of the same name in
central Florence, dedicated to all the saints and martyrs, known
and unknown, where Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci are also
buried. Her husband remarried soon afterward. Giuliano De Medici,
her troubadour knight who jousted with her image, painted by
Botticelli, painted on his banner, was assassinated in The Pazzi
conspiracy two years to the day after Simonetta's death. While
some art historians have taken issue with La Bella Simonetta's
attributions to subjects of Botticelli and Di Cosimo, Victorian
critic John Ruskin promulgated the idea, and the cult of her
beauty and her being the certain subject of Giuliano De Medici's
banner painting is beyond dispute. Simonetta Vespucci was born
Simonetta Cattaneo in a part of the Republic of Genoa that is now
in the Italian region of Liguria. A more precise location for her
birthplace is unknown: possibly the city of Genoa, or perhaps
either Portovenere or Fezzano (nowadays included in the
municipality of Portovenere). The Florentine poet Politian wrote
that her home was "in that stern Ligurian district up above
the seacoast, where angry Neptune beats against the rocks ...
There, like Venus, she was born among the waves." Her father
was a Genoese nobleman named Gaspare Cattaneo della Volta
(belonging to the same family of 16th-century Doge of Genoa
Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta) and her mother was his wife,
Cattocchia Spinola; another source names her parents slightly
differently, as Gaspare Cattaneo and Chateroccia di Marco Spinola.
At age sixteen she married Marco Vespucci, son of Piero, who was a
distant cousin of the explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.
They met in April 1469, when she was with her parents at the
church of San Torpete in Genoa; the doge Piero il Fregoso and much
of the Genoese nobility were present. Marco had been sent to Genoa
by his father, Piero, to study at the Banco di San Giorgio.
Smitten with Simonetta, Marco was accepted by her parents as their
daughter's prospective bridegroom; they likely felt that the
marriage would be advantageous because Marco's family was well
connected in Florence, especially to the Medici family. Simonetta
and Marco were married in Florence that same year. According to
legend, Simonetta quickly became popular at the Florentine court,
and attracted the interest of the Medici brothers, Lorenzo and
Giuliano. Lorenzo permitted the Vespucci wedding to be held at the
palazzo in Via Larga, and held the wedding reception at their
lavish Villa di Careggi. At La Giostra (a jousting tournament) in
1475, held at the Piazza Santa Croce, Giuliano entered the lists
bearing a banner upon which was a picture of Simonetta as a
helmeted Pallas Athene, painted by Botticelli, beneath which was
the French inscription La Sans Pareille, meaning "The
Unparalleled One". Giuliano won the tournament, and nominated
Simonetta as "The Queen of Beauty" at that event. It is
clear that Simonetta had a reputation as an exceptional beauty in
Florence, but Giuliano's display should be considered within the
conventions of courtly love. Simonetta was a married woman and a
member of a powerful family allied to his.
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Today, April 26, 2026April 26, 2011: #DOTD: #RIP: Phoebe Snow,
American roots music singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for
her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "San Francisco Bay Blues",
"Poetry Man", "Harpo's Blues", and her
credited guest vocals backing Paul Simon on "Gone at Last"
(b. July 17, 1950) #dies at age 60 in Edison, New Jersey - most
likely at JFK Medical Center, where Luther Vandross died -- after
suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on January 19, 2010, having
slipped into a coma, enduring bouts of blood clots, pneumonia and
congestive heart failure. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes
were given to her family. Phoebe Snow was born Phoebe Ann Laub in
New York City. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade,
had an encyclopedic knowledge of American film and theater and was
also an avid collector and restorer of antiques; both he and Poebe
have been mistaken in thinking they were black. Her mother, Lili
Laub, was a Jewish dance teacher who had performed with the Martha
Graham group. was. raised in a musical household in which Delta
blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and
folk music recordings were played around the clock. Phoebe Snow
was described by The New York Times as a "contralto grounded
in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeping over four octaves."
Snow also sang numerous commercial jingles for many U.S. products
during the 1980s and 1990s, including General Foods International
Coffees, Salon Selectives, and Stouffer's. Snow experienced
success in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s with five
top 100 albums in that territory. In 1995 she recorded a gospel
album with Sisters of Glory.
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