April 26th ....
1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli...
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth....
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Guernica...
1986 – Chernobyl....
570 – Birth of Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20..
1970 – Death of Gypsy Rose Lee....