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Friday 2024-04-26 Bahrain time
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6 الثور 1402 هجري شمسي
فصل الربيع نوء الذراعين 11
نجم المؤخر 11

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Upcoming International days

• 26 April World Intellectual Property Day
• 26 April International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
• 28 April International Girls in ICT Day [ITU]
• 28 April World Day for Safety and Health at Work
• 30 April International Jazz Day
• 2 May World Tuna Day

Upcoming National days

• 27 April Mayotte (France)
• 27 April Kingdom of the Netherlands
• 27 April Sierra Leone
• 27 April South Africa
• 27 April Togo
• 28 April Sardinia (Italy)
• 1 May Marshall Islands

Happened this day (26 April) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 590 Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 624 – First Eid al-Fitr celebration.
- 1021 The death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah.
- 1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
- 1344 The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
- 1351 Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights.
- 1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- 1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
- 1601–1900
- 1636 Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- 1640 The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe.
- 1651 Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José is pushed south by strong winds, subsequently it wrecks in the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos.
- 1697 Safavid government troops take control of Basra.
- 1700 William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea.
- 1812 An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
- 1812 A political cartoon in the Boston-Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
- 1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
- 1871 The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
- 1885 The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
- 1896 An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.
- 1901–present
- 1913 First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
- 1915 The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
- 1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
- 1922 The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
- 1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
- 1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
- 1934 The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
- 1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
- 1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
- 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
- 1954 Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
- 1955 Pan Am Flight 845/26 ditches in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon, killing four.
- 1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
- 1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
- 1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
- 1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
- 1971 East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
- 1979 – An Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 10.
- 1981 Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
- 1982 A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
- 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
- 1991 Singapore Airlines Flight 117 is hijacked by four Pakistani terrorists and diverted to Changi Airport.
- 1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
- 1998 During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
- 2005 Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
- 2010 The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
- 2017 Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
- 2024 The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing 6 people.