Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 26
On April 26:
- 1478 - The Pazzi attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother in Florence.
- 1865 - Boston Corbett shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, dead.
- 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain was bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1986 - Chernobyl accident: One of the reactors at the Chornobyl nuclear plant exploded.
- 1994 - South Africa began its first multiracial elections (see History of South Africa).