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