April 26th

The April 26th is the 116e Jour of the Année (117e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1248 : Solemn dedication of the Holy Vault of Paris
1336: Birth of the alpinism with the rise of the Mount Ventoux by Pétrarque
1460: The Université Albertina of Freiburg-in-Brisgau - founded in 1457 by the archduke Albert VI of Austria - accommodates its first students in four traditional faculties for the medieval time : Theology, Right, Medicine and Philosophy. There were 215 inscriptions the first year.
1480 : Plundering of Rocheservière by an about sixty Breton riders.
1792 : Rouget of Lisle presents its battle song for the army of the Rhine, Marseillaise
1802: Amnesties French emigrants.

1937 : bombardment of Guernica, Spanish Basque Country
1954: The conference of Geneva begins to restore peace in Indo-China and Korea
1962: The space probe Ranger 4 NASA is crushed on the the Moon
1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar amalgamates to form the Tanzania
1986: Nuclear accident with the nuclear plant of Tchernobyl, the USSR
1990: In China, a Earthquake makes 115 dead.
1992 : Second round of the presidential election to the Mali: Alpha Oumar Konaré becomes the first president of IIIe République
1994: First multiracial elections in South Africa.

2006 : Hugo Lépine leaves his post of head of the municipal political party, Capital Option with Quebec.
2007 : Inauguration of the Olympic flame of the OJ of Beijing.

121 : Marc Aurèle, Roman Emperor. († March 17th 180)
1319: Jean II the Good, king of France of 1350 with 1364.
1573 : Marie de Médicis, born with Florence, deceased the July 3rd 1642 with Cologne, queen of France of 1600 with 1642.
1711 : Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French novelist († September 8th 1780)
1746: Louis-Mathias de Barral, bishop of Meaux († June 7th 1816)
1774:

1782: Marie-Amélie of Bourbon-Siciles, queen of the French († March 24th 1866)
1785: John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist and American painter († January 27th 1851)
1786: Louis de Potter, Belgian politician († July 22nd 1859)
1793: Nicolas Changarnier, general and politician French
1794: Jean-Pierre Falret, French psychiatrist
1798: Eugene Delacroix, French painter († August 13rd 1863)
1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher († April 29th 1951)
1894: Rudolf Hess, dignitary of the Germany Nazi († August 17th 1987)
1900: Charles Francis Richter, seismologist states-unien
1905: Jean Vigo, French realizer, († October 5th 1934)
1911: Andree Tainsy, Belgian actress († December 19th 2004)
1912: A.E. van Vogt, American writer of Science fiction († January 26th 2000)
1921:

1922: pol. Bury, painter and Belgian sculptor († September 28th 2005)
1924: Guy Môquet, resistant French shot to the 17 years age
1927: Robert James, French hispanist
1932: Lay Francis, French type-setter
1949: Carlos Bianchi, player of Argentinian Football of Italian origin which completes its career of player in 1985, playing post of center-forward. He becomes trainer thereafter.
1963 : Jet Li, Chinese actor
1966: Didier Gustin, humorist, French imitator
1970: Sebastien Folin, presenter of Television French originating in the Meeting.
1975 : Joey Jordison, American beater of the group Slipknot and guitarist of the group Murderdolls
1978: Anna Mouglalis, French actress
1981: Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer

1566 : Diane of Poitiers, countess of Saint-Vallier, duchess of Stamps, duchess of Valentinois, favorite of the King de France Henri II.
1612 : Claude de Bellièvre, archbishop of Lyon (1604 -1612).
1636 : Paul Hay of Chastelet, French writer (French academician, Armchair 20) (° 1593)
1731: Daniel Defoe, adventurer, trading, political agent and British writer , author of Robinson Crusoé. (° October 10th 1660)
1852: Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Naturalist French. (° December 25th 1771)
1914: Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist specialist in the the Alps. (° August 20th 1831)
1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
1980: Mario Dribbled, realizer, director of the photography, operator chief and Italian scenario writer. (° July 31st 1914)
1984: Count Basie, pianist, organist, and especially American leader of jazz. (° August 21st 1904)
1997: Peng Zhen, leading member of the Chinese Communist party. (° October 12th 1902)
2004: Hubert Selby Jr, American writer.
2005 : Maria Schell, Austrian actress (° January 15th 1926)

Beats-smg: Balondė 26 Be-X-old: 26 красавіка Fiu-vro: 26. mahlakuu päiv Nds-nl: 26 april Simple: April 26 Zh-yue: 4 月 26 號

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