April 26

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[edit] Events

• 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
• 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• 1933 - The Gestapo, the official police force of National Socialist Germany, is established.

[edit] Births

• 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
• 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
• 1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher (d. 1776)
• 1894 - Rudolf Hess, German official (d. 1987)
• 1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)

[edit] Deaths

• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
• 1945 - Sigmund Rascher, WWII German doctor (b. 1909)