Portal:United States/Anniversaries/April/April 26
- 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown Settlement (recreation pictured) make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
- 1865 – Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
- 1956 – The first container ship leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
- 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would be devastated by the year's only F5 tornado.
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Events
- 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown Settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
- 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
- 1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
- 1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
- 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas tornado outbreak).
- 1992 - Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.