^B{^#!16!26 April^N! Feast day of St Cletus, St Riquier, St Stephen of Perm, St Peter of Braga, St Franca of Piacenza, and St Paschasius Radbertus.
^B{1923^B} The Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, were married in Westminster Abbey. ^B{1937^B} The Spanish town of Guernica was almost destroyed by German bombers acting in support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. ^B{1957^B} English astronomer Patrick Moore presented the first broadcast of ^I{The Sky at Night^I}. ^B{1964^B} Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to become the Republic of Tanzania. ^B{1968^B} The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the US exploded in Nevada. ^B{1986^B} Radioactive material was leaked from a damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine; the effects could be measured thousands of miles away.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, ^B{AD 121^B}; John James Audubon, US naturalist and painter, ^B{1785^B}; Ferdinand Delacroix, French painter, ^B{1798^B}; Michel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, ^B{1880^B}; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher, ^B{1889^B}; Rudolf Hess, German Nazi leader, ^B{1894^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Karl Bosch, German metallurgist and chemist, ^B{1940^B}; Gypsy Rose Lee, US dancer and striptease artist, ^B{1970^B}; Cicely Courtneidge, British actress, ^B{1980^B}; Count Basie, US bandleader, ^B{1984^B}; Broderick Crawford, US film actor, ^B{1986^B}.
