Births on April 26

Rafael Guízar y Valencia

Born on April 26, 1878

Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)

Rafael Guízar y Valencia (16 April 1878 – 6 June 1938) was a Mexican Catholic bishop who was active during the Mexican Revolution. Named Bishop of Jalapa in 1919, he was driven out of his diocese and forced to live the remainder of his life in hiding in Mexico City.

Guizar's body was exhumed in 1950, twelve years after his death, and witnesses have said it had not decayed.Pope Benedict XVI canonized Guízar on 15 October 2006.

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Events on 1878

18 Feb

Lincoln County War
John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
3 Mar

Treaty of San Stefano
The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
25 May

Comic opera
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
15 Jun

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
22 Oct

Salford, Greater Manchester
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.

Births on April 26

Rafael Guízar y Valencia

Born on April 26, 1878

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Events on 1878

Lincoln County War

Treaty of San Stefano

Comic opera

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

Salford, Greater Manchester