| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Hollywood film Avengers: Endgame was released in theaters. This is one of the highest grossing movies. | Release Date |
| 2017 | American film director Jonathan Demme died. | Death day |
| 2013 | Ecuador's first artificial satellite NEE-01 Pegaso was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1998 | Chess grandmaster from Poland, Jan-Krzysztof Duda was born. | Birthday |
| 1994 | China Airlines Flight 140 aircraft incident at Komaki, Japan, killed 264 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1993 | Indonesian badminton player Praveen Jordan was born. | Birthday |
| 1993 | Indian Airlines Flight 491 aircraft incident at Aurangabad, India, killed 56 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1988 | Chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan, Rauf Mamedov was born. | Birthday |
| 1988 | Chess grandmaster from Serbia, Boban Bogosavljević was born. | Birthday |
| 1986 | American actor Broderick Crawford died. | Death day |
| 1986 | Chernobyl disaster | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1983 | Sumo wrestler Orora was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Golfer from United States, J. B. Holmes was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Civil Aviation Administration of China Flight 3303 aircraft incident at near Yangshuo, China, killed 112 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1977 | Astronaut from Italy, Samantha Cristoforetti was born. | Birthday |
| 1967 | Chess grandmaster from Argentina, Ariel Sorin was born. | Birthday |
| 1964 | Union Day of Tanzania. | National Holiday |
| 1962 | United Kingdom's first artificial satellite Ariel 1 was launched. | Launch Day |
| 1956 | Chess grandmaster from Russia, Vasily Malinin was born. | Birthday |
| 1940 | German chemist Carl Bosch died. | Death day |
| 1933 | American physicist Arno Allan Penzias was born. | Birthday |
| 1932 | British-born Canadian chemist Michael Smith was born. | Birthday |
| 1925 | Italian entrepreneur Michele Ferrero was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | Norwegian writer Bjornstjerne Bjornson died. | Death day |
| 1900 | American seismologist and physicist Charles Francis Richter was born. | Birthday |
| 1898 | Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre was born. | Birthday |
| 1891 | Italian underwater diver Alberto Gianni was born. | Birthday |
| 1879 | British physicist Owen Willans Richardson was born. | Birthday |
| 1856 | New Zealand politician Joseph Ward was born. | Birthday |
| 1834 | Italian chemist Hugo Schiff was born. | Birthday |
2019-04-26