1. In 1906, the Seattle General Strike began on April 26. It was the first city-wide strike in the United States and lasted for five days, involving over 65,000 workers.

2. The World's Fair opened in Spokane on April 26, 1974. The Expo '74 Fair was themed around the environment and attracted over 5.6 million visitors.

3. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26. While the accident happened in Ukraine, the impacts were felt globally, including in Washington state.

4. On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was surrounded and killed by Union soldiers in Virginia, bringing an end to his assassination plot against President Abraham Lincoln.

5. In 2013, the Boston Marathon bombings took place on April 15, but the manhunt for the suspects ended in Washington state on April 26, when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured in a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown.