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April 26th
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April 26th is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 249 days remaining until
the end of the calendar year.  April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day.

Births
1872
- William Desmond Taylor, silent film actor
1933 - Carol Burnett, actress, comedian (The Carol Burnett Show)
1963 - Jet Li, actor, martial artist (Romeo Must Die)
1965 - Kevin James, comedian, actor (The King of Queens)
1967 - Glenn Jacobs, aka Kane, professional wrestler
1977 - Tom Welling, actor (Smallville)
1980 - Jordana Brewster, actress (The Fast and the Furious)
1983 - Jessica Lynch, rescued U.S. soldier

Deaths
1865
- John Wilkes Booth, stage actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
1981 - Jim Davis, actor (Dallas)
1989 - Lucille Ball, comedian, actress, model

Events
1607
- En route to founding Jamestown, the first permanent settlement in the present day United States, English colonists
come ashore near Cape Henry, Virginia.
1865 - Union soldiers surround and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth in rural Virginia, the assassin of President Lincoln.
1977 - Studio 54 opens in New York City.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan visits China for diplomatic meetings, the first time a U.S. president visited since President
Richard Nixon in 1972.
1986 - The world's worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union.
2000 - Vermont Governor Howard Dean signs the nation's first civil unions legislation into law.
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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