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