On this day — April 26

Canada.

one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.

Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Germany before committing suicide.

killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.