April 26 1478 - Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed Giuliano deMedici. 1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn. 1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere. 1819 - The first Odd Fellows lodge in the U.S. was established in Baltimore, MD. 1865 - Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Sherman during the American Civil War. 1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry. 1906 - In Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time. 1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO. 1929 - First non-stop flight from England to India was completed. 1931 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner. 1931 - NBC premiered Lum and Abner. It was on the air for 24 years. 1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. 1937 - LIFE magazine was printed without the word LIFE on the cover. 1937 - Lorenzo Jones premiered on NBC radio. 1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL. 1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of Frances Vichy government during World War II, was arrested. 1952 - Patty Berg set a new record for major women’s golf competition when she shot a 64 over 18 holes in a tournament in Richmond, CA. 1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of LIFE magazine. 1964 - The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania. 1964 - The Boston Celtics won their sixth consecutive NBA title. They won two more before the streak came to an end. 1968 - Students seized the administration building at Ohio State University. 1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia. 1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time. 1985 - In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79 people and injured 247. 1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material. 1998 - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death two days after a report hed compiled on atrocities during Guatemalas 36-year civil war was made public. 2000 - Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the NHLs New York Islanders. 2002 - In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17 people at his former school. The student then killed himself.
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