| 47971 | April 26 | Event | 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. |
| 47972 | April 26 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. |
| 47973 | April 26 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese |
| 47974 | April 26 | Event | 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. |
| 47975 | April 26 | Event | 1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. |
| 47976 | April 26 | Event | 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. |
| 47977 | April 26 | Event | 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule. |
| 47978 | April 26 | Event | 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. |
| 47979 | April 26 | Event | 1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. |
| 47980 | April 26 | Event | 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. |
| 47981 | April 26 | Event | 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. |
| 47982 | April 26 | Event | 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. |
| 47983 | April 26 | Event | 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. |
| 47984 | April 26 | Event | 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. |
| 47985 | April 26 | Event | 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. |
| 47986 | April 26 | Event | 1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. |
| 47987 | April 26 | Event | 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. |
| 47988 | April 26 | Event | 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. |
| 47989 | April 26 | Event | 1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests |
| 47990 | April 26 | Event | 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. |
| 47991 | April 26 | Event | 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
| 47992 | April 26 | Event | 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
| 47993 | April 26 | Event | 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). |
| 47994 | April 26 | Birth | 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (d. 180) |
| 47995 | April 26 | Birth | 757 – Hisham I of Córdoba (d. 796) |
| 47996 | April 26 | Birth | 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (d. 1600) |
| 47997 | April 26 | Birth | 1575 – Marie de' Medici, Italian wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642) |
| 47998 | April 26 | Birth | 1607 – Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken (d. 1648) |
| 47999 | April 26 | Birth | 1947 – William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (d. 1720) |
| 48000 | April 26 | Birth | 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706) |