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Events from History on April 26

1973 : "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London
1990 : "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
1987 : "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 perfs
1947 : "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
1841 : "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1969 : "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
1970 : "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
1981 : "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1991 : "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
1969 : "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
1992 : "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 perfs
1967 : "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 perfs
1992 : "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
1997 : "Life," opens at Barrymore Theater NYC
1992 : "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 : "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
1993 : "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs
1992 : "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1990 : 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
1944 : 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1607 : 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1893 : 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1478 : 1st Easter
1912 : 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1962 : 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1906 : 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1994 : 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days]
1929 : 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1755 : 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1991 : 23 killed in Kansas & Okla by tornadoes
1994 : 26.9øC in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1941 : A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1986 : Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1900 : AL opener in Cleve draws 6,500
1982 : Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
1962 : Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1966 : Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1989 : AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
1938 : Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1995 : Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1865 : Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)
1865 : Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
1904 : Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1993 : Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1983 : Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 : CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1974 : Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
1942 : Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1945 : collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason
1855 : Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1865 : Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham NC
1995 : Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
1514 : Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1959 : Cuba invades Panama
1905 : Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3
1990 : Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case
1990 : Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
1936 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1983 : Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1994 : Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
1853 : Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
1655 : Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude
1677 : Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1923 : English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
1954 : Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1969 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
1986 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1835 : Fr‚d‚ric Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris
1978 : France sends troops to Chad
1961 : French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1709 : Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1982 : Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
1220 : German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1937 : German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1926 : Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1920 : H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1971 : Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
1890 : Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
1887 : Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1988 : in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
1991 : in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
1980 : Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
1915 : Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1965 : Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1957 : Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1907 : Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
1932 : Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris
1933 : Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1654 : Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 : Jews from New Amsterdam
1926 : Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)
1814 : King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1967 : KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 : Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1981 : Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $33 million stolen
1950 : Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1984 : Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1980 : Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1931 : Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner,
1994 : Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
1928 : Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1974 : Malta adopts constitution
1945 : Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy
1803 : Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1989 : Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1931 : mistake costs him AL home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
1978 : NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1954 : Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1988 : NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season
1993 : NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1990 : Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1990 : NY court of appeals ends 2« year legal battle over 1988 America's
1988 : NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory
1977 : NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1819 : Odd Fellows Lodge forms
1992 : Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1976 : Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1913 : Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
1944 : Papandreou govt in Greece forms
1478 : Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
1975 : Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April
1980 : Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
1941 : Potatoes rationed in Holland
1984 : Pres Reagan visits China
1925 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1951 : Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1962 : Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1962 : Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
1982 : Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1961 : Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1828 : Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1967 : San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1971 : SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1996 : Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
1721 : Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1991 : Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested
1996 : Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1993 : STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1968 : Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1532 : Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1913 : Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China
1777 : Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1994 : Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1964 : Tanganyika & Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar
1971 : Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1950 : U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1952 : US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1968 : US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device
1962 : US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1564 : William Shakespeare baptized
1986 : Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
1974 : Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for

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