This Day in History, April 26

1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown Settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, VA.
I've been to the Cape Henry Lighthouse.

1865 - Union cavalry stormtroopers corner and kill Virginia patriot John Wilkes Booth, the alleged assassin of war criminal President Abraham Lincoln, near the Northern Neck of Virginia. I have always believed that nothing good ever happens in the Northern Neck, aka The Land that Time Forgot. I don't believe there was any real proof that Booth killed Lincoln.

1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany is established.

1967 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

1986 - In the Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

2005 - Syria, under intense international pressure, withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending the 29 year military occupation of that country.