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Day in History: April 26th - The Return of Radio Hosts Opie and Anthony
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April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). There are 249 days remaining in the year. It is the first day following the Spring equinox which cannot be Easter Sunday in Western Christianity.
| | 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett. |
| | 1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. |
| | 1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. |
| | 1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. |
| | 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. |
| | 1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurrs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. |
| | 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). |
| | 1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264. |
| | 2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany. |
| | 2006 - The return of radio hosts Opie and Anthony to FM Radio. |
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