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April 26, 1607 - The British established an American colony
at Cape Henry, Va. It was the first permanent English establishment in the
Western Hemisphere.
April 26, 1711 - David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
His essay "Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth" greatly affected the ideas
of the drafters of the American federal Constitution.
April 26, 1819 - The first Odd Fellows lodge in the U.S. was
established in Baltimore, Md.
April 26, 1865 – During the Civil War, Confederate General
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army, the Army of Tennessee, to General
William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also
the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
April 26, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth. 26, was shot and killed
when Union soldiers tracked him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he
assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
April 26, 1900 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Hack
Wilson was born in Ellwood City, Pa. He would go on to play for the New York
Giants, the Chicago Cubs, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979.
April 26, 1912 - Hugh Bradley of the Boston Red Sox hit the
first home run in Fenway Park.
April 26, 1914 – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Bernard
Malamud was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is best known for his classic 1952
baseball novel, “The Natural.”
April 26, 1915 – The P.D. Bowles Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy held a Confederate Memorial Day ceremony at the
Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen, Ala. It was the first ceremony of its type in
Evergreen and an estimated crowd of more than 500 attended. Mrs. E.C. Page,
president of the UDC Chapter, was the master of ceremonies, and Dr. J.G.
Dickinson, pastor of the Baptist Church, delivered the memorial address.
April 26, 1917 – Major League Baseball pitcher Virgil Trucks
was born in Birmingham, Ala. He would go on to play for the Detroit Tigers, the
St. Louis Browns, the Chicago White Sox, the Kansas City Athletics and the New
York Yankees.
April 26, 1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first
time on radio in St. Louis, Mo.
April 26, 1931 - New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run
but was called out for passing a runner.
April 26, 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police
force of Nazi Germany, was established.
April 26, 1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium
for the first time in Chicago, Ill.
April 26, 1946 – American miner, explorer and park ranger
James Larkin White passed away at the age of 63 in Carlsbad, N.M. He is best
remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known
today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.
April 26, 1948 - A 750-pound calf owned by James Norris was
judged Grand Champion during the Evergreen Jaycees’ Second Annual Fat Calf Show
in Evergreen, Ala.
April 26, 1951 – Army Sgt. Paul R. Goodson of Escambia
County, Ala. was killed in action in Korea.
April 26, 1954 – English mountaineer and explorer Alan
Hinkes was born in Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Hinkes was the first
British mountaineer to have claimed all 14 mountains with elevations greater
than 8000 metres, the so-called Eight-thousanders.
April 26, 1966 - Alabama author Natasha Trethewey was born
in Gulfport, Miss.
April 26, 1973 – The Old Monroe County Courthouse in
Monroeville, Ala. was added to National Register of Historic Places.
April 26, 1973 – The Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise,
Ala. was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
April 26, 1988 - Deatrich Wendell Wise of Evergreen, a
senior at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., was selected seventh in
the ninth round of the NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks.
April 26, 1995 - Coors Field officially opened in Denver,
Colo. The Rockies beat the New York Mets, 11-9, in 14 innings.
April 26, 2007 – Major League Baseball’s Will Clark was
inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.
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