Historical Events April 26.

1933: Nazi Germany’s Gestapo secret police force formed.

1962: NASA’s Ranger-4 crashed into the moon.

1964: Tanganyika joined Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

1970: The Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization implemented.

1973: Ajit Nath Ray became the 14th Chief Justice of India.

1986: A massive explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia released radioactive material into the atmosphere.

1989: A cyclone killed at least 1,300 people, injured 12,000, and left 80,000 homeless in Bangladesh.

1995: Nisha Mohota of India won the International Women’s Master’s Book at the Asian Divisional Chess Championship.

2010: Bihar government decided to brand Bihar’s famous Chinia banana as Ganga Banana.

Famous Birthdays ,April 26.

1900: Charles Richter, an American seismologist, and physicist. 

1908: Sarv Mittra Sikri, the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.

1937: Hridaynath Mangeshkar, an Indian music director.

1948: Moushumi Chatterjee, an Indian actress.

1963: Jet Li, a Chinese-born film actor.

1974: Raveena Tandon, an Indian actress, model, and producer.

1991: Amala Paul, an Indian film actress.

Death Anniversaries ,April 26.

1858: Kunwar Singh, a leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. 

1865: John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician.

1987: Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi, the Shankar-Jaikishan duo composer.

1999: Manmohan Adhikari, Nepal’s first democratically elected Prime Minister.