April 26: World Intellectual Property Day; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
- 1933 – The Gestapo (pins pictured), the official secret police force in Nazi Germany, was established.
- 1945 – World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended.
- 1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization came into being when its charter entered into force.
- 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.
More anniversaries: April 25 – April 26 – April 27
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