Notable · 2012
The International Hydrographic Organization abandoned South Korean-led 'attempts to rename the Sea of Japan.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
April 26
Nothing formally observed in Svalbard and Jan Mayen on April 26.
April 26 in history
Full history →- 2025A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
- 2015Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
- 2005Cedar Revolution: 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).
- 2002Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.
- 1999Outbreak of CIH computer virus.