Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2019 with 249 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
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Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2019 with 249 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in 121; Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1711; naturalist John James Audubon in 1785; landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1822; author Anita Loos in 1889; Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, in 1894; inventor Charles Richter, responsible for the Richter scale of earthquake measurement, in 1900; writer A.E. van Vogt in 1912; writer Bernard Malamud in 1914; architect I.M. Pei in 1917 (age 102); actor/comedian Carol Burnett in 1933 (age 86); guitarist Duane Eddy in 1938 (age 81); pop singer Bobby Rydell in 1942 (age 77); actor Giancarlo Esposito in 1958 (age 61); actor Joan Chen in 1961 (age 58); actor Jet Li, born Li Lianjie, in 1963 (age 56); actor Kevin James in 1965 (age 54); singer T-Boz, born Tionne Watkins, in 1970 (age 49); first lady Melania Trump in 1970 (age 49); actor Tom Welling in 1977 (age 42); actor Stana Katic in 1978 (age 41); actor Channing Tatum in 1980 (age 39); actor Jordana Brewster in 1980 (age 39); actor Emily Wickersham in 1984 (age 35); actor Luke Bracey in 1989 (age 30); actor Riley Voelkel in 1990 (age 29).
On this day in history:
In 1607, the first British colonists to establish a permanent settlement in America landed at Cape Henry, Va.
In 1933, Nazi Germany's secret police, better known as the Gestapo, is formed by Hermann Goering. The Allies declared the Gestapo a criminal organization during the Nuremberg trials and sentenced Goering to die.
In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, German-made planes destroyed the Basque town of Guernica, Spain.
In 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged, forming the country of Tanzania.
In 1982, Argentina surrendered to British forces on South Georgia Island amid a dispute over the Falkland Islands.
In 1986, a fire and explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear reactor north of Kiev, Ukraine, resulted in the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster. About 30 deaths were reported in the days following the accident. It is believed that hundreds of people eventually died from high doses of radiation from the plant and that thousands of cases of cancer could be linked to the crisis.
In 1993, Indian Airlines Flight 491 slammed into a parked truck during takeoff and crashed minutes later near the western Indian city of Aurangabad, killing 56 people.
In 1994, South Africans began going to the polls in the country's first election that was open to all. Four days of voting would elect Nelson Mandela president.
In 2002, a German youth who had been expelled from the Gutenberg school in Erfurt, Germany, returned to the school and shot 16 people to death.
In 2005, the last of Syria's troops left Lebanon, ending a 29-year military presence.
In 2010, longtime Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, sought by the International Criminal Court in connection with reputed crimes against humanity in the Darfur section of western Sudan, was re-elected president in a controversial vote.
In 2012, a U.N.-backed court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes, including murder, acts of terrorism, rape, sexual slavery and use of child soldiers, for aiding rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
In 2018, a Pennsylvania jury found actor Bill Cosby guilty on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.
A thought for the day: Joyce Brothers said, "The best proof of love is trust."