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TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, April 26, the 116th day of 2018. There are 249 days left in the year.

HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY

On April 26, 1937, German and Italian warplanes raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; estimates of the number of people killed vary from hundreds to thousands.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

• Architect I.M. Pei is 101. • Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 85. • Rhythm-and-blues singer Maurice Williams is 80. • Songwriter-musician Duane Eddy is 80. • Actor-comedian Kevin James is 53. • First lady Melania Trump is 48. • Actor Channing Tatum is 38. • Actress Emily Wickersham is 34.

ON THIS DATE

In 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Virginia, and killed.

In 1986, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere. (Dozens of people were killed in the immediate aftermath while the long-term death toll from radiation poisoning is believed to number in the thousands.)

In 1994, voting began in South Africa’s first all-race elections, resulting in victory for the African National Congress and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president.