SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014

Today is Saturday, April 26, the 116th day of 2014. There are 249 days left in the year.

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

1755 ― First Russian university opens (Moscow)

1913 ― Sun Yet-sen calls for revolt against President Yuan Shi-kai in China

1981 ― Largest U.S. bank robbery (Tucson, Ariz.), more than $33 million stolen

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

1990 ― Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters

1994 ― Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes in Nagoya, Japan, 262 killed