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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aigle_(meteorite)
In the early afternoon of 26 April 1803 a meteorite shower of more than 3000 fragments fell upon the town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France. Upon hearing of this event the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot to investigate that spectacular fall of stones. After painstaking work in the field he reported two kinds of evidence pointing to an extraterrestrial origin for the stones:[2]
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L'Aigle | |
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L'Aigle meteorite | |
Type | Chondrite |
Class | Ordinary chondrite |
Group | L6 |
Country | France |
Region | Normandy |
Coordinates | 48°46′N 0°38′ECoordinates: 48°46′N 0°38′E[1] |
Observed fall | Yes |
Fall date | 26 April 1803 |
TKW | 37 kg |
Strewn field | Yes |