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Events

• 1564 (462 years ago) Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
• 1944 (82 years ago) Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1962 (64 years ago) NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1963 (63 years ago) In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections.
• 1964 (62 years ago) Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
• 1966 (60 years ago) A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• 1994 (32 years ago) South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Births

• 121 (1905 years ago) Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (died 180)
• 1798 (228 years ago) Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (died 1863)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1917 (109 years ago) I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (died 2019)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
• 1970 (56 years ago) Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States

Deaths

• 680 (1346 years ago) Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602)
• 757 (1269 years ago) Pope Stephen II,
• 1910 (116 years ago) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984)

All 341 events, births and deaths of April 26