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This is a list of selected April 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church) refimprove section
; Arbor Day in the United States (2013) refimprove
1777American Revolutionary War: Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington allegedly rode forty miles (64 km) through the night to warn militiamen under her father Henry's command that British troops were planning to invade Danbury, Connecticut. OR/unsourced essay section
1925Paul von Hindenburg defeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election, becoming the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. refimprove, too long section
1937Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm that caused widespread destruction and civilian deaths and inspired one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings. both: refimprove section
1945World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended. claims of victory on this day not mentioned
1956SS Ideal X set sail from Port Newark in New Jersey as the part of world's first successful container shipping business. Ideal X: stub; Container ship: refimprove section; Containerization: refimprove section + lead too short
1964Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president. refimprove section
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco performed the world's first human open fetal surgery. refimprove
1982 – In one of the deadliest spree killings in modern history, South Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon killed a total of 57 people in one night, including himself. refimprove section
1983Cold War: Replying to her letter in which she expressed her fears about the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov invited American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to visit Moscow, Leningrad and the Artek Young Pioneer camp. appears on July 7
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. 2 unsourced sections, other unsourced paragraphs
2002 – An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. refimprove section

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Notes

April 26: World Intellectual Property Day

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