Today is Thursday, April 26, the 117th day of 2012. 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
1913 ― Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China
1942 ― Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko, Manchuria
1981 ― Largest U.S. bank robbery (Tucson, Az.), more than $33 million stolen
1982 ― Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1986 ― Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver