WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. APRIL
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The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. (26. April 1954)

SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. (26. April 1956)

Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. (26. April 1958)

Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. (26. April 1960)

NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. (26. April 1962)

In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. (26. April 1963)

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. (26. April 1964)

A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. (26. April 1965)

An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. (26. April 1966)

A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. (26. April 1966)

The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. (26. April 1970)

Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. (26. April 1981)

57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. (26. April 1982)

A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. Reactor No. 4 with its enclosing sarcophagus. (26. April 1986)

The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. (26. April 1989)

People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests (26. April 1989)

Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). (26. April 1991)

China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. (26. April 1994)

Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. (26. April 2002)

Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). (26. April 2005)