April 26: Who’s Celebrating – Some events like today

April 26: events like today

Pictures: The Battle of Sphakteria, Picasso’s “Guernica” referring to the bombing of the city of the same name, Praxiteles’ Mercury, after the Chernobyl accident, Thanasis Papakonstantinou

Friday, April 26, 2024: Osias Glafyras

Celebrate: Glafyros, Glafyros

World days
• World Intellectual Property Day

Events on April 26
• 1607 The first British colonists land in North America, on the shores of what is now Virginia.
• 1825 Ibrahim with 11,000 footmen and 800 horsemen dominates Sphakteria, which was defended by only 1,500 Greeks. Military Minister Anagnostis Papageorgiou (Anagnostaras) and Philhellenic Santaroza, along with 350 other Greeks, fall fighting.

• 1831 The first press law in Greece is published, raising a storm of protests against the governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias.
• 1877 Hermes of Praxiteles is discovered in Olympia by German archaeologists.

• 1902 Manchester United is christened with its current name replacing “Newton Heath”, borrowed from the name of an eastern suburb of Manchester.
• 1933 The Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazi regime, is founded.
• 1937 The German air force bombs and destroys the Basque town of Guernica (Guernica) in Spain. From this tragic event, Pablo Picasso is inspired by the painting “Guernica”.

• 1944 The exiled Greek government in Cairo is reorganized. George Papandreou is sworn in as Prime Minister, with Panagiotis Kanellopoulos as Vice President. 1960 South Korean President Shingeman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
• 1964 The island of Zanzibar and mainland Tankanika form the state of Tanzania, in West Africa.
• 1986 Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. This is the worst nuclear accident in the history of mankind, after an explosion in one of the reactors of the nuclear power plant. According to the UN, about 8.4 million people in these three countries have been exposed to radiation, from which an area of ​​150,000 has been contaminated. square kilometers while many thousands of people left their homes.

• 1987 The Hellenic Left (EAP) is founded and Leonidas Kyrkos takes over as secretary general of the new party.
• 1994 The first multiracial elections in South Africa are being held.
• 2001 Large demonstrations are being organized against the PASOK government’s proposed plan to reform the insurance system (the “Giannitsi Plan”), which attempts, among other things, to increase retirement limits, pool funds, review heavy and unhealthy occupations, and review social resources with the prospect of their abolition (advertisement).
• 2002 Student Robert Steinhauser enters his school in Erfurt armed and kills 17 people before killing himself.

April 26th births
• 1798 Eugene Delacroix, French painter

• 1900 Charles Richter, American seismologist
• 1904 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician
• 1959 Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Greek songwriter

Deaths on April 26
• 1860 Theoklitos Farmakidis, Greek teacher of Genus, leading modern Greek enlightener, fighter of the Greek Revolution, scholar, cleric and pioneering journalist

• 1891 Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, Greek historian
• 1989 Nikos Svoronos, Greek historian

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