David Manker Abshire was an American politician who served as a Special Counselor to President Ronald Reagan and was the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 1983 to 1987. Abshire presided over the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.

1926Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (died 2011)^[†]

Victor Bouchard OC CQ was a Canadian pianist and composer.

1926Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (died 2007)^[†]

Karl Rebane was a Soviet and Estonian physicist.

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1926Luther Burbank, American botanist and academic (born 1849)^[†]

Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot.

Headlines from April 11, 1926

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NORGE SETS OUT ON ARCTIC VOYAGE, FLYING FOR PULHAM; Amundsen Airship, Speeding Through the Night, Flashes Word of Its Progress.

LAWYERS WILL ACT ON THE GIBBS BILL; Hold Final Discussion Tuesday on Measure Proposing to Organize the State Bar. FAR-REACHING EFFECT SEEN W.D. Guthrie Thinks Plan Would Tend to Destroy Present Bodies -- Hughes Favors It.

LIGHT-ENERGY IDEAS TOLD BY MILLIKAN; Physicist in Yale Lecture Tells of Experiments in Photo-Electricity.

" VIVE LE ROI!" FOR DUKE OF GUISE; New French Pretender Must Leave His Pleasant Farm for Exile

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