Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 26

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 * 1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
 * 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-resistance and political organization during World War II.
 * 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy submarines began attacks on Japan's Take Ichi convoy as it sailed in waters between Taiwan and the Philippines, eventually sinking four vessels and killing more than 4,000 troops.
 * 1958 – Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
 * 1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
 * 1989 – An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.
 * 2007 – Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
 * 2012 – The International Hydrographic Organization abandoned South Korean-led 'attempts to rename the Sea of Japan.
 * Born/died: | Chen Jingxuan |d|893| Jean Fernel |d|1558|Samuel Bellamy |d|1717|  Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily |b|1782| Nano Nagle |d|1784| Ludwig Wittgenstein |b|1889| Hack Wilson |b|1900| I. M. Pei |b|1917| Srinivasa Ramanujan |d|1920| Margaret Gowing |b|1921| Margaret Scott |b|1922Anne McLaren |b|1927| Giorgio Moroder |b|1940| Morihei Ueshiba |d|1969