Daily Calendar for Sunday, April 26, 2026

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John James Audubon (French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and artist; was born in Les Cayes, Haiti) – 1785
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect) – 1822
Ma Rainey (blues singer) – 1886
Charles Richter (seismologist) – 1900
Carol Burnett (actress) – 1933
Duane Eddy (musician) – 1938
Jet Li (actor and martial artist) – 1963
Kevin James (actor) – 1965
Tom Welling (actor) – 1977

John Wilkes Booth (assassin of President Lincoln, was shot by federal troops at a farmhouse near Washington, D.C.) – 1865
Eduard Suess (geologist) – 1914
Count Basie (jazz orchestra leader) – 1984
Lucille Ball (actress) – 1989
Mason Adams (actor) – 2005
Phoebe Snow (singer ) – 2011
George Jones (country music singer) – 2013

William Shakespeare baptized – 1564
Meteorites fell on the town of L’Aigle, France – 1803
In Garnett, Kansas, fruit farmer A.A. Adams took what is believed to be the first photograph of a tornado. – 1884
First U.S. weather report broadcast, by WEW in St. Louis, Missouri – 1921
America’s first guide dog for the blind, a German Shepherd named Buddy, was teamed up with its owner, Morris S. Frank – 1928
The first international satellite, Ariel 1, was launched from Cape Canaveral – 1962
Five explorers reached the North Pole, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert Peary for the same journey in 1909 – 2005
A herd of buffalo got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood in Maryland, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before police officers managed to corral them in a tennis court – 2005
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stole home. This was the first straight-steal of home plate by a Red Sox player since Billy Hatcher in April of 1994. – 2009