Today in History - April 26

Frederick Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect of the nineteenth century, was born on April 26, 1822.  Continue reading.

William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England.  Continue reading.

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