Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 26
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April 26: Feast Day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1865 – American Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the German Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm that caused widespread destruction and civilian deaths in the Basque town.
- 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
- 1986 – The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a fire, a nuclear meltdown, and the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people around Europe.
- 2007 – Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn in Tallinn, Estonia, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial, erupted into mass protests and riots.