On This Day - April 26th 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
On This Day - April 26th 1805 – United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
On This Day - April 26th 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is shot dead by Union cavalry troopers at Richard H. Garrett's farm, just south of Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia.
On This Day - April 26th 1937 – The German Luftwaffe bomb Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
On This Day - April 26th 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
On This Day - April 26th 1965 – In London, Ontario a Rolling Stones concert is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
On This Day - April 26th 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
On This Day - April 26th 2005 – Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
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