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April 26: Day of the Week
April 26, 2024 was the 117th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 249 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
April 26 Historical Event(s)
1607
English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1803
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1942
Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1946
Naperville train disaster kills 47.
1958
Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960
Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
1970
The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1989
The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1991
Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak’s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year’s only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
Who were born on April 26?
1798
Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1886
Gabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1914
Charlie Chester, British comedian (d. 1997)
1918
Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1926
Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
1958
Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer
1962
Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963
Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
1967
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
1985
John Isner, American tennis player
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