Hans Remembers- Sunday April 26, 1970- 50 Years Ago.

• Company- a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim opens with the first of 706 performances at the Alvin Theater. It would go on to win six Tony Awards.
• The Convention Establishing The World Intellectual Property Organization went into effect, a little less than three years after it has been adopted at Stockholm on July 14, 1967.

• Born on this day in Novo Mesto, SR Slovenia the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump.

• Tionne Watkins aka T-Boz -Grammy Award winning American R&B singer- born in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Dying on this day Rose Hovick better known as Gypsy Rose Lee the famous American striptease artist and mystery novelist- of lung cancer. She was 59.