History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com
John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter, Frederick Olmsted 1822 - Journalist, landscape designer, Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes
Bernard Malamud 1914 - Author of novels and short stories, Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian, Jet Li 1963 - Actor ("Lethal Weapon 4," "War", "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor")
1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
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