Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 26
April 26, 2025 is the 116th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 249 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 26
- 1336 –Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
- 1865 –Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- 1928 –Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
- 1933 –The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1942 –Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
- 1944 –Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
- 1981 –Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- 1982 –57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
- 1989 –People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- 1994 –China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
Who were born on April 26?
- 570 –Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. (d. 632)
- 1889 –Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
- 1922 –Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
- 1933 –Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1933 –Carol Burnett, American comedian
- 1941 –John Mitchell, American composer
- 1960 –Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
- 1965 –Kevin James, American comedian
- 1972 –Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
- 1980 –Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
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