Today in History

April 26

1828 - Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire in Turkey.

1860 - Spain and Morocco sign a peace deal.

1865 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, is killed by troops in Virginia.

1872 - Civil war breaks out in Spain. 1885 - Britain occupies Port Hamilton.

1925 - Paul von Hindenburg is elected President of Germany. 1942 - A coal mine disaster in Benxi, Japanese-occupied China, kills 1,549 workers.

1961 - American Robert Noyce patents the integrated circuit.

1962 - First international satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1964 - African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

1986 - The world’s worst nuclear accident occurs at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.

1989 - Chinese students march to central Beijing to protest government statements condemning their campaign for democracy. 1990 - Leftist Colombian presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro is assassinated aboard a Colombian airliner.

1994 - Taiwanese airliner crashes in Japan, killing 264.

1996 - US peace-shuttle diplomacy finally brings a ceasefire to wardamaged Lebanon with a deal announced by Warren Christopher. 1999 - Top BBC television personality Jill Dando is murdered outside her London home.

2001 - Junichiro Koizumi is elected Japan’s new Prime Minister.

2005 - Syria’s last soldier in Lebanon walks across the border. 2010 - Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir wins the country’s first multi-party presidential election in over two decades.

2013 - A car bomb explodes near a secular party’s election office in Karachi, Pakistan, killing at least 10 people.

2015 - Sudanese poet Mohammad Al Fitory, a leading advocate of liberation in Africa, dies at the age of 78.

2016 - Saudi Arabia has plans to issue select visas to welcome tens of thousands of tourists a year as part of a sweeping national reform plan.