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26 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1841 Bombay Gazette, one of the earliest English language Indian newspapers, started publication in Bombay (now Mumbai).
- 1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician, died in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. In 1913 English mathematician G H Hardy recognized his brilliant work, and asked Ramanujan to study under him at Cambridge. In 2007 British playwright Simon McBurney created "A Disappearing Number," for his theater group "Complicite," based on Ramanujan's five years at Cambridge.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1514 Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn.
- 1865 Twelve days after assassinating US President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.
- 1900 Charles Richter, seismologist, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He developed the Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes.
- 1912 A E van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction author, was born.
- 1916 Morris L West, novelist, author of Shoes of the Fisherman, was born in Australia.
- 1925 Franz Kafka published his landmark novel The Trial, which is a nightmarish account of a man being arrested and prosecuted by a faceless authority for an unknown crime.
- 1928 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition reopens in London after a fire.
- 1954 Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai was released in Japan, and it is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.
- 1962 American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
- 1986 The worst nuclear disaster in history occurred in Chernobyl when a reactor of the nuclear power plant there exploded during a botched safety test, sending clouds of radiation billowing across large parts of Europe. 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.
- 1999 Chernobyl, a resident computer virus, though detected in 1998, triggered its payload on this day which was the 13th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Intellectual Property Day, observed annually, was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000 to "raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life" and "to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe".
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