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