04-26-2006, 05:35 AM
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April 26th
1607 ~ Colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, to create the first permanent English settlement in North America.
1711 ~ Birthday of David Hume, Philosopher & Historian.
1785 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist & Illustrator.
1865 ~ Death of John Wilkes Booth, shot while trying to avoid capture for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1935 ~ Birthday of Carol Burnett, Singer, Actress & Comedienne.
1937 ~ Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain was bombed by the Luftwaffe.
1964 ~ Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1986 ~ In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 ~ Death of Lucille Ball, Actress & Comedienne.
1994 ~ South Africa held its first multiracial elections.
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