Calendar: Who is celebrating today, Friday, April 26

Today, Friday, April 26, according to the Calendar, the memory of Osia Glafyra is commemorated.

Celebrate the names: Glafyros, Glafyra, Glafyri, Glafyroula.

Today, April 26

• 1822: The first tax law of the revolutionary Greeks comes into force, with the imposition of the tithe on fruits.
• 1825: Ibrahim with 11,000 footmen and 800 horsemen conquers Sphakteria, which was defended by only 1,500 Greeks. The Minister of Military Affairs, Anagnostis Papageorgiou (Anagnostaras) and the Philhellenic Santaroza, along with 350 other Greeks, fall fighting.
• 1877: Hermes of Praxiteles is discovered in Olympia by German archaeologists.
• 1926: PAOK is officially founded, with the approval of its statutes by the Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki.
• 1930: At the proposal of the new Minister of Education, Georgios Papandreou, the law establishing a National Theater in Athens is passed. Miltiadis Lidorikis is appointed as the first director.
• 1986: Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Soviet Union (Ukraine), the worst nuclear accident in human history.

April 26th births

• 1798: Eugène Delacroix, French romantic painter. His masterpiece is considered the painting “The Massacre of Chios”, inspired by the struggles of the Greeks against the Turks. (D. 13/8/1863)
• 1918: Fanny Blankers-Kun, Dutch track and field athlete. She won 4 gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in London and in 1999 she was named the top female athlete of the 20th century in a poll organized by the World Athletics Federation. (Dec. 25/1/2004)
• 1927: Anne McLaren, English biologist. Her seminal research in embryology made significant contributions to IVF. (Thu. 7/7/2021)

Deaths on April 26

• 1825: Santore di Santarosa, Italian Philhellene and fighter of the Greek Revolution. (Born 18/11/1783)
• 1861: Jacob Philipp Falmereyer, Austrian traveler, journalist, politician and historian, best known for his travel narratives and his theories about the racial origins of the Neo-Greeks. (Born 10/12/1790)
• 1938: Edmund Husserl, German philosopher, introducer of the current of phenomenology. (Born 8/4/1859)