History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com
John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter, Frederick Olmsted 1822 - Journalist, landscape designer, Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party



Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes, Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories, Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian


1478 - Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed Giuliano de'Medici.


1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.


1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.


1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.


1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.


1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.


1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.


1998 - Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death two days after a report he'd compiled on atrocities during Guatemala's 36-year civil war was made public.