April 26<\/p>\n
1607 \u2013 The colonists of the Virginia Company, chartered by King James 1st of England, makes landfall at Cape Henry at the northeast end of modern day Virginia Beach, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 Sybil Ludington, aged 16, daughter of Westchester County, New York Colonel of Militia, Henry Ludington, makes an all night horseback ride over 40 miles to alert militia in the towns of Putnam County, New York, and Danbury, Connecticut, of the approach of British forces.<\/p>\n
1805 \u2013 During the First Barbary War, a squad of 8 U.S. Marines under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, supported by 500 Arab mercenaries, capture Derna, Cyrenaica in modern day Libya.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead, John Wilkes Booth, in the barn of the farm of Richard H. Garrett, about 2 miles south of Port Royal, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 On the day the Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei<\/em>, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann G\u00f6ring, Nazi Germany also issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army and troops of USA Forces In the Philippines-Northern Luzon and of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Divisions, U.S Army, are liberated from a prison camp at Baguio, Luzon and return to the fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.<\/p>\n 1956\u2013 SS Ideal X<\/em>, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 NASA’s Ranger 4<\/em> photographic spacecraft suffers an onboard computer malfunction and crashes into the Moon.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, performs the world’s first human open surgery on a fetus.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 In the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes during a reactor test, rupturing the reactor core, causing an open air reactor core fire and releasing airborne radioactive contamination onto part of the Soviet Union and western Europe.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 55 tornadoes break out across Oklahoma and Kansas killing 21 people, with 17 of those in Andover, Kansas, by the only F5 tornado in the outbreak.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy\u00a0 -“mad cow” disease – was discovered the day before in a dairy cow at the Baker Commodities rendering facility in Hanford, California<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Identified through forensic genetic genealogy comparison on the personal genomics website GEDmatch, the arrest on 24 April of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. , a former police officer,\u00a0 as the serial killer “Golden State Killer”, responsible for 12 murders and 50 rapes in California, is announced to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 26 1607 \u2013 The colonists of the Virginia Company, chartered by King James 1st of England, makes landfall at Cape Henry at the northeast end of modern day Virginia Beach, Virginia. 1777 \u2013 Sybil Ludington, aged 16, daughter of Westchester County, New York Colonel of Militia, Henry Ludington, makes an all night horseback ride … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92192,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67208\/revisions\/92192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}