April 26 Holidays & National Days & Fun Days | April 26 Calendar
April 26st Daily Holidays include:
- Administrative Professional’s Day – April 26, 2023 (The Wednesday of the last full week of April)
- Alien Day
- Audubon Day
- Confederate Heroes’ Day – April 26 (State of FL)
- Denim Day – April 26, 2023
- Get Organized Day
- Hug a Friend Day
- Hug an Australian Day
- International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
- International Guide Dog Day – April 26, 2023 (Last Wednesday of April)
- Lesbian Visibility Day
- National Bookmobile Day – April 26, 2023 (Wednesday of National Library Week)
- National Dissertation Day
- National Help a Horse Day
- National Kids and Pets Day
- National Pretzel Day
- National Static Cling Day
- Remember Your First Kiss Day
- Richter Scale Day
- Stop Food Waste Day – April 26, 2023
- World Intellectual Property Day
April 26: Famous Birthdays
- April 26, 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, famous for the creation of the Richter magnitude scale of measuring the size of earthquakes
- April 26, 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, comedian (Carol Burnett Show)
- April 26, 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor, director and producer (Smallville)
- April 26, 1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress (Fast & Furious movies)
- April 26, 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was injured and captured, and then rescued by the U.S. Special Operation Forces
April 26: Historical Events
- April 26, 1607 – 1st English colonists make landfall and establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay
- April 26, 1721 – The smallpox vaccination is 1st administered
- April 26, 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall in L’Aigle, France
- April 26, 1859 – The defense of “Temporary Insanity” is used successfully for the first time, to acquit Dan Sickles of murder
- April 26, 1865 – Union cavalry troopers shoot John Wilkes booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia
- April 26, 1926 – Germany & Russia sign a neutrality peace treaty
- April 26, 1933 – The official secret police force of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo is established
- April 26, 1959 – Cuba invades Panama
- April 26, 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania
- April 26, 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) enters into force, as one of the self-funding agencies of the United Nations
- April 26, 1954 – Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
- April 26, 1962 – NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon
- April 26, 1971 – The Bahia district in Brazil has 15″ of rain in 24 hours
- April 26, 1981 – The 1st open fetal surgery if performed by Dr. Michael R. Harrison, of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
- April 26, 1986 – The 4th reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union explodes and creates the world nuclear disaster to date, with 31 deaths
- April 26, 1989 – Central Bangladesh has the deadliest tornado strike, in world history, with close to 1,300 deaths, 12,000+ injuries, and leaving at least 80,000 homeless
- April 26, 1990 – A 6.9 earthquake strikes China and 126 die
- April 26, 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the Central United States, with Andover, Kansas recording the year’s only F5 tornado
April 26: Music Events
- April 26, 1835 – Frederic Chopin’s, ‘Grand Polonaise Brillante’, opens in Paris
- April 26, 1977 – Glen Campbell’s, ‘Southern Nights’, hits #1
- April 26, 1977 – New York City’s most famous disco, Studio 54 opens
- April 26, 1982 – Rod Stewart is mugged, and a gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
- April 26, 2003 – The Morgan Creek Bridge in Chapel Hill, NC is renamed the James Taylor Bridge
April 26: Astrological Sign
The Astrological Sign for April 26 is Taurus.
April Birthstone:
What is the April Birthstone? Diamond
The diamond is the traditional birthstone of April and holds significant meaning for those born in that month, thought to provide the wearer with better relationships and an increase in inner strength. Wearing diamonds is purported to bring other benefits such as balance, clarity and abundance.
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