SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008

Today is Saturday, April 26, the 117th day of 2008. There are 249 days left in the year.

1514 _ Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn

1564 _ William Shakespeare baptized

1607 _ First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va.

1721 _ Smallpox vaccination first administrated

1913 _ Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China

1928 _ Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London

1933 _ Jewish students are barred from school in Germany

1936 _ Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony

1986 _ France performs nuclear test

1992 _ Alex Haley (Roots) wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously