1925: Franz Kafka publishes his landmark novel ‘The Trial’
The text, which was initially published as Der Process, is a nightmarish account of a man being arrested and prosecuted by a faceless authority for an unknown crime.
1933: Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring formed the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany that ruthlessly eliminated opposition and was involved in the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps.
1956: Nigeria’s first women police officers graduate in a Passing Out ceremony in Ikeja, British Nigeria. 20 women have completed six months’ training. They are not issued guns while on duty.
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1963: King Idris of Libya decrees the end of the country’s feudal system, and establishes the Kingdom of Libya as a centralised state. Ended also are the legislatures of the three provinces that have formed Libya as a federal state since 1951.
1964: With the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania was founded, and Julius Nyerere served as its first president.
1986: The worst nuclear disaster in history occurs in Chernobyl
Large parts of Europe were contaminated when reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Although the number of deaths attributable to the disaster is difficult to determine, experts anticipate tens of thousands of deaths across Europe in the coming decades due to cancer caused by the radioactive fallout.
1986: Crown Prince Makhosetive is crowned King Mswati III, ruler of Swaziland (Eswatini). At age 18, he is the world’s youngest head of state.
1989: The deadliest tornado in history kills about 1300 people. The Daulatpur–Saturia Tornado devastated everything in its 50-mile-long path across central Bangladesh.
1994: Germany makes Holocaust denial illegal
The far-right party NPD had sought legitimation by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court for expressing the view that the Nazis’ genocide of six million Jews never occurred. The court ruled against them.
2005: Syria ends its military occupation of Lebanon after 29 years. Syria buckled to domestic and international pressure following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14 of the same year.
2012: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes. On April 26, 2012, former Liberian president Charles Taylor is found guilty of abetting horrific war crimes, including rape and mutilation in Sierra Leone. His conviction was the first for war crimes by a former head of state in an international court since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting a notoriously brutal rebel force that murdered, raped, forced sexual slavery, built a child army, and mined diamonds to pay for guns.
2016: A suicide attack at the Abuja bureau of ThisDay newspaper and a car bombing at another of its offices killed at least nine (9) people in the first such strikes against the country’s media. The explosions which occurred simultaneously rocked Thisday’s office in Abuja and another location near its office in Kaduna.
2018: Amid numerous allegations of sexual assault, American comedian and actor Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, and he later received a sentence of 3 to 10 years in prison; his conviction, however, was overturned in 2021.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY APRIL 26
Channing Tatum, 44 years
Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor who was born on 26 April 1980. Tatum made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter and had his breakthrough role in the 2006 dance film Step Up.
Olu Oyesanya (26 April 1923 – 1999
Nigerian journalist, in Lagos Island, British Nigeria was born on 26 April 1923. A reporter and editor, he laid the groundwork for the modernisation of the journalism profession to meet the challenges of post-colonial Nigeria when he founded the Nigerian Union of Journalism in 1954. He was 76 years old when he died.
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David Hume (7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776)
David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. He died at the age of 65.
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