April 26 is the 116st day of the year (117nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln, is captured and killed by United States Army soldiers in rural northern Virginia after a twelve-day manhunt.
- 1870 – Dârülmuallimât (Girl Teacher's School) was opened in the Ottoman Empire. 32 female students were admitted with the exam.
- 1903 - The famous Spanish team Atlético Madrid is founded.
- 1912 – For the first time, Fesa Bey (Evrensev), an Ottoman pilot, flew over Turkish territory in an Ottoman airplane.
- 1930 – The liquor factory in Istanbul, Mecidiyeköy, was opened.
- 1937 – Bombardment of Guernica: Some volunteer airmen bombard the city of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain, at Hitler's request, in order to help General Franco.
- 1954 – The foundation of Burdur Sugar Factory was laid.
- 1954 - Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina convened.
- 1961 – Supreme Election Board was established.
- 1964 – The United Republic of Tanzania is formed by the merger of the Republic of Tanganyika, the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba. Julius Nyerere became President.
- 1966 – The 7,5 Richter scale earthquake that occurred in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, destroyed almost the entire city.
- 1967 – A painting by Pablo Picasso sells for $532.000, the highest ever price for a living artist.
- 1971 – Martial law was declared in 11 provinces. Minister of Justice İsmail Arar asked journalists, “Is there a revolt?” left the question unanswered. The provinces where martial law was declared for a month are: Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Diyarbakir, Eskisehir, Hatay, Kocaeli, Sakarya, Siirt, Zonguldak.
- 1971 – Martial Law closed the Revolutionary East Cultural Centers and Dev-Genç.
- 1972 – Writer Sevgi Soysal was sentenced to one year in prison.
- 1977 – The election bus of Republican People's Party leader Bülent Ecevit was shot in Niksar. 10 people were injured in the attack.
- 1978 – Dr. Cengiz Taşer was appointed as the General Manager of TRT.
- 1979 – Istanbul Martial Law Command declared that it banned May 1 Labor Day celebrations.
- 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: Turkey was also affected by the radioactive clouds that emerged due to the explosion that took place in the Chernobyl city of Ukraine (USSR), in which approximately 7 million people were harmed.
- 1988 – Medical Ethics Committee, Dr. He decided that the oleander extract, which Ziya Özel used in the treatment of cancer patients, was not a medicine.
- 1991 – Istanbul Çavuşoğlu High School became the World High School Basketball Champion.
- 1991 - 4 Azeri security guards were killed in the Karabakh region. The organization named "Karabakh Warriors" claimed responsibility for the incident.
- 1994 - A Chinese plane crashes in Japan, killing 264.
- 1994 – The first multiracial elections are held in the Republic of South Africa. The African National Congress, led by Nelson Mandela, won 62 percent of the vote.
- 1995 – Reuters reporter Fatih Sarıbaş and Agence France-Presse (French Press Agency) reporter Kadri Gürsel, who were kidnapped by PKK militants on March 31, were released.
- 1995 – Turkey's first female district governors, Elif Arslan and Özlem Bozkurt, started their duties.
- 1996 – Turkey's first overpass restaurant was opened in Sapanca by McDonald's on the TEM highway.
- 1997 – Industry Minister Yalım Erez and Health Minister Yıldırım Aktuna resigned, declaring that the Refahyol Government had destroyed the basic features of the Republic and brought harm, not benefit, for Turkey.
- 1999 – On the anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, hackers locked down computers. 300 thousand PCs were affected by the Chernobyl virus. There was great panic in thousands of companies. His bill is $100 million.
- 2000 – Eskişehir Deputy Mail Büyükerman resigned from DSP on the grounds that there was a reaction against his presidential candidacy.
- 2001 – Junichirō Koizumi of the Liberal Democratic Party becomes the first Japanese Prime Minister.
- 2004 – Black Sea residents filed a criminal complaint against Cahit Aral, Minister of Industry and Trade of the time, and Ahmed Yüksel Özemre, Head of Atomic Energy Authority, exactly 18 years after the Chernobyl disaster. Reason; Increase in cancer cases in the Black Sea.
- 2005 – The law, which was vetoed by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, allowing 10 thousand police officers to be created and theology graduates to become police officers, was accepted in the Parliament.
- 2005 – The United Nations officially announced that CHP Istanbul Deputy Kemal Derviş was elected as the Head of the United Nations Development Programme.
- 2006 – TTNET Anonim Şirketi was established.
- 2007 – The Olympic Games fire was lit in Beijing.
- 2010 – In the Bilge Village of Mazıdağı District of Mardin, 7 of the 44 people arrested for the murder of 8 people, including 6 children, were given life imprisonment forty-four times. In the event that went down in history as the Bilge Village Massacre; A minor defendant was sentenced to 44 years in prison 15 times, and a defendant who had a gun in his home was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Births
- 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
- 757 – Hisham I, second Emir of Andalusia Umayyad State (d. 796)
- 764 – Hadi, Fourth Abbasid caliph (d. 786)
- 1319 – II. Jean, King of France (d. 1364)
- 1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor (d. 1616)
- 1575 - Marie de' Medici, King of France IV. Henry's second wife (d. 1642)
- 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
- 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Italian statesman and patriot (d. 1807)
- 1785 – John James Audubon, American painter (d. 1851)
- 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
- 1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, American architect (d. 1903)
- 1856 Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1946)
- 1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (d. 1931)
- 1879 – Eric Campbell, English-born silent film actor, theater actor (d. 1917)
- 1879 – Owen Richardson, English physicist (d. 1959)
- 1886 – Abdullah Tukay (Gabdulla Tuqay), Tatar poet (d. 1913)
- 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher (d. 1951)
- 1894 – Rudolf Hess, German politician and NSDAP Member of Parliament (d. 1987)
- 1896 – Ernst Udet, German Pilot (d. 1941)
- 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American film director (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American geoscientist and inventor (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, former prime minister of Greece (1989-90) and economist (d. 2004)
- 1905 – Jean Vigo, French director (d. 1934)
- 1907 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician (d. 1968)
- 1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German stage, film and television actress (d. 2002)
- 1911 – Paul Verner, German communist politician (d. 1986)
- 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
- 1917 – Ieoh Ming Pei, Chinese-American architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner (d. 2019)
- 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch former athlete (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Anne McLaren, English biologist and zoologist (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Harry Gallatin, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian and writer (d. 2019)
- 1931 – John Cain, Australian politician (d. 2019)
- 1932 – Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
- 1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- 1933 - Carol Burnett, American actress, variety artist, singer, and author
- 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics (d. 2024)
- 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Puerto Rican musician and leader of the Boricua People's Army, which fought for the independence of the island of Puerto Rico (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Yılmaz Karakoyunlu, Turkish politician and writer (d. 2024)
- 1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French Formula 1 racer (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Duane Eddy, American rock and roll guitarist
- 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian songwriter, DJ, record producer, artist
- 1941 – Claudine Auger, French actress (d. 2019)
- 1942 – Manfred Korfmann, German archaeologist (d. 2005)
- 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American rock and roll singer, drummer, and actor (d. 2022)
- 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
- 1946 – Robert Anker, Dutch writer (d. 2017)
- 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentine professional football player and manager
- 1951 – Nuri Alço, Turkish film actor
- 1954 – Akrep Nalan, Turkish pop music singer (d. 2022)
- 1956 – Emrehan Halıcı, Turkish politician
- 1956 – Koo Stark, American photographer and actor
- 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
- 1959 – Gulenay Kalkan, Turkish actress
- 1960 – HG Carrillo, American author (d. 2020)
- 1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio host
- 1961 – Joan Chen, People's Republic of China-American film actress and director
- 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial arts actor and actor
- 1964 – Mark Esper, American politician and businessman
- 1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
- 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress
- 1967 – Kane, Spanish-American wrestler and actor
- 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and wife of Donald Trump
- 1970 – Ümit Sayın, Turkish singer
- 1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer
- 1972 – Kiko, Spanish football player
- 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician and Slipknot drummer (d. 2021)
- 1976 – Catie Lazarus, American author, comedian and talk show host (d. 2020)
- 1976 – Nefise Karatay, Turkish actress, model and presenter
- 1977 Jason Earles, American actor
- 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
- 1978 Stana Katic, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish football player
- 1980 – Jordana Brewster is an American actress.
- 1980 – Umut Sarikaya, Turkish cartoonist
- 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and filmmaker
- 1981 - Mrs. Dynamite, English hip-hop musician and rapper
- 1983 - Jessica Lynch, former corporal of the U.S. Armed Forces Engineering Corps
- 1985 – Anduele Pryor, Dutch football player
- 1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli football player
- 1987 - Coke is a Spanish football player.
- 1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American actress
- 1988 – Manuel Viniegra, Mexican football player
- 1989 - Daesung is a South Korean singer and actor.
- 1992 - Delon Wright, American professional basketball player
- 1993 – Gizem Örge, Turkish volleyball player
- 1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian Formula 1 driver
- 1995 – Tilbe Şenyürek, Turkish basketball player
- 1996 – Yuma Suzuki, Japanese football player
- 1997 – Shunta Shimura, Japanese football player
- 2001 – Ekrem Sancaklı, Turkish basketball player
- 2001 – Thiago Almada, Argentinian football player
Deaths
- 757 – Pope II. Stephanus, Pope and first ruler of the Papal States (b. ??)
- 1192 – Go-Shirakawa, 77th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1127)
- 1392 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean philosopher and statesman during the Goryeo Dynasty (b. 1338)
- 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
- 1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, second child of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni (b. 1453)
- 1478 – Jacopo de' Pazzi. Head of the Pazzi Family in 1464 (b. 1423)
- 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, ninth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (b. 1465)
- 1815 – Carsten Niebuhr, German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1733)
- 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor (who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln) (b. 1838)
- 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, poet, politician, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
- 1920 – Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
- 1936 – Samipaşazade Sezai, Turkish storyteller and novelist (b. 1859)
- 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- 1943 – Naşit Özcan, Turkish theater actor and veil master (b. 1886)
- 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
- 1956 – Gustav Oelsner, German architect and urban planner (b. 1879)
- 1960 – Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist and mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1966 – Tom Florie, American football player (b. 1897)
- 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of Aikido (b. 1883)
- 1979 – Julia Bell, British human genetics researcher (b. 1879)
- 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1984 – Count Basie, American jazz pianist and conductor (b. 1904)
- 1984 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (b. 1890)
- 1985 – Aylin Urgal, Turkish pop music artist (b. 1951)
- 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, music producer, songwriter (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Kyokushin-kai karate (b. 1923)
- 1999 – Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (b. 1961)
- 2002 – Orhan Elmas, Turkish actor and director (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean Gay poet and writer (b. 1984)
- 2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Elisabeth Domitien, Central African Republic's first and only female prime minister (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Ali Ekber Çiçek, Turkish folk singer (b. 1935)
- 2008 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian football player (b. 1938)
- 2009 – Macha Béranger, born: Michele Riond), French radio host and actor (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Şahap Kocatopçu, Turkish politician (b. 1916)
- 2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American, Brown University faculty physicist (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Rashad Harden, American hip hop musician and DJ (b. 1979)
- 2015 – Jayne Meadows (born: Jane Cotter), American actress (b. 1919)
- 2016 – Vincent Darius, Granada clergyman (b. 1955)
- 2016 – Arne Elsholtz, German actor and voice actor (b. 1944)
- 2017 – Moïse Brou, Gabonese national football player born in Ivory Coast (b. 1982)
- 2017 – Jonathan Demme, American director (b. 1944)
- 2018 – Jean Duprat, French politician (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese former international football player and manager (b. 1939)
- 2018 – Gianfranco Parolini, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1925)
- 2019 – James Banks, American football player (b. 1964)
- 2019 – Elina Bistritskaya, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1928)
- 2019 – Nasser Farbod, Iranian politician and senior military officer (b. 1922)
- 2019 – Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, black American actress (b. 1942)
- 2019 – Mae Schmidle, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Emilio S Allué, Spanish Catholic bishop (b. 1935)
- 2020 – Laura Bernal, Argentine diplomat (b. 1956)
- 2020 – Giulietto Chiesa, Member of the European Parliament (b. 1940)
- 2020 – Miquéias Fernandes, Brazilian politician and lawyer (b. 1950)
- 2020 – Aarón Hernán, Mexican theater, film and television actor (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Claudio Risi, Italian film director (b. 1948)
- 2020 – Badruddin Shaikh, Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (b. 1952)
- 2020 – Henri Weber, French politician (b. 1944)
- 2021 – Vassos Lyssarides, Greek Cypriot doctor and politician (b. 1920)
- 2021 – Florence Piron, French-born Canadian anthropologist, academic, and ethicist (b. 1966)
- 2022 – Ann Davies, English actress (b. 1934)
- 2022 – İsmail Ogan, Olympic Games champion Turkish wrestler (b. 1933)
Holidays and special occasions
- Pharmacy Technicians Day
- World Intellectual Property Day
- World Pilots Day
- Storm: The End of Sitte-i Sevr
- World Jealousy Day