This Day in History: April 26th

Here are ten historical events that took place on April 26th, listed chronologically:

1. 1478: The Pazzi conspiracy culminates in the assassination attempt on Lorenzo de’ Medici and his brother Giuliano during Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
2. 1607: English colonists establish the first permanent English settlement in America at Cape Henry, Virginia.
3. 1803: Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L’Aigle, France, leading to the scientific confirmation of meteorites.
4. 1865: Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
5. 1937: The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, United States.
6. 1954: The Geneva Conference begins, aimed at resolving the conflicts in Indochina and Korea.
7. 1966: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing at least 15,000 people.
8. 1986: A catastrophic nuclear accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, leading to widespread radioactive contamination and the evacuation of nearby towns and cities.
9. 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, a former student at Johann Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, shoots and kills 16 people, including himself, before committing suicide.
10. 2015: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal, causing widespread devastation and killing nearly 9,000 people.

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