April 26
People born on this day are Taurus.
- 1989
The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
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People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
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Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
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China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
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South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
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Outbreak of CIH computer virus.
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Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
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Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
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Peaceful protesters install the first anti-monument in Mexico, Antimonumento +43, as a call for justice and remembrance to commemorate the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, later inspiring similar memorials elsewhere in the country and Latin America.
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A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
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2005Alex Sarr, French basketball player
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2001Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer
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1997Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player
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1997Amber Midthunder, American actress
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1997Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer
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1996Jordan Pefok, American footballer
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1994Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver
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1994Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer
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1992Aaron Judge, American baseball player
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1992Delon Wright, American basketball player
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1991Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer
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1991Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
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