FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2013. There are 249 days left in the year.

1478 ― Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici

1478 ― Easter is celebrated for the first time

1514 ― Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn

1564 ― William Shakespeare baptized

1721 ― Smallpox vaccination first administrated

1835 ― Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante,” premieres in Paris, France

1964 ― Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)

1982 ― Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island

1986 ― Worst nuclear disaster, fourth reactor at Chernobyl, USSR, explodes, 31 die

1991 ― Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics