GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, April 26, the 116th day of 2017 with 249 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:46 and sunset is @ 7:37. The New Moon is exact @ 8:17 AM EDT. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Saturn & Mercury. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1478 – Pazzi conspirators attacked Lorenzo and killed Giuliano de’Medici. 

1514 – Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn. 

1607 – The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere. 

1819 – The first Odd Fellows lodge in the U.S. was established in Baltimore, MD. 

1865 – Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee to Sherman during the American Civil War. 

1865 – John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry. 

1906 – In Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time. 

1921 – Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO. 

1929 – First non-stop flight from England to India was completed. 

1931 – New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hit a home run but was called out for passing a runner. 

1931 – NBC premiered “Lum and Abner.” It was on the air for 24 years. 

1937 – German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force. 

1937 – “LIFE” magazine was printed without the word “LIFE” on the cover. 

1937 – “Lorenzo Jones” premiered on NBC radio. 

1941 – An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL. 

1945 – Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, was arrested. 

1952 – Patty Berg set a new record for major women’s golf competition when she shot a 64 over 18 holes in a tournament in Richmond, CA. 

1954 – Grace Kelly was on the cover of “LIFE” magazine. 

1964 – The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania. 

1964 – The Boston Celtics won their sixth consecutive NBA title. They won two more before the streak came to an end. 

1968 – Students seized the administration building at Ohio State University. 

1982 – The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia. 

1983 – Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 1,200 for first time. 

1985 – In Argentina, a fire at a mental hospital killed 79 people and injured 247. 

1986 – The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material. 

1998 – Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera was bludgeoned to death two days after a report he’d compiled on atrocities during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war was made public. 

2000 – Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar purchased the NHL’s New York Islanders. 

2002 – In Erfurt, Germany, an expelled student killed 17 people at his former school. The student then killed himself.