On April 26
On April 26, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Containerisation begins: SS Ideal X first container voyage (1956).
On this day
On 26 April 1956, the SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker owned by Malcom McLean's Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, departed Port Newark, New Jersey, carrying 58 standardised 35-foot truck-trailer containers alongside a load…
Also this week in history (Apr 23 – Apr 29)
On 28 April 224 CE Ardashir I, a ruler from Persis (Fars) descended from the line of Sasan, defeated and killed Artabanus IV, the last Arsacid king of kings, on the plain of Hormozdgan.
On 25 April 1953 the journal Nature published a trio of papers describing the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
On 27 April 1994 South Africa held its first fully democratic election, the first in which citizens of all races could vote, ending the apartheid system of institutionalised racial segregation that had governed the country since 1948.
On 27 April 1848 the provisional government of the French Second Republic issued a decree abolishing slavery in all French colonies, freeing roughly 250,000 enslaved people in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and elsewhere.
Beginning on 24 April 1915, when Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople, the Ottoman government carried out the systematic destruction of its Armenian population…