April 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1865	Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.	Sufjan Stevens	Kill	A Sun Came!
2	1928	Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.	Neutral Milk Hotel	Los Angeles	Hype City Soundtrack
3	1933	The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.	The Rites	PC Gestapo	Not Fucking Entertainment
4	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.	Traveling Wilburys	End of the Line	Traveling Wilburys Complete Collection
5	1962	NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.	The New Pornographers	Crash Years	Together
6	1965	A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.	The Rolling Stones	It's All Over Now	It's All Over Now
7	1981	Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.	Don Caballero	Let's Face it Pal, You Didn't Need that Eye Surgery	American Don
8	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.	Peter Bjorn & John	Start to Melt	Writer's Block
9	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.	Camel	Supertwister	Mirage

(Historical facts about April 26 are from Wikipedia.)