Today is Tuesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2010. 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)
1835 ― Frederic Chopins ``Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris
1913 ― Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
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
1994 ― Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed