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Historical events & facts — April 26
What happened on April 26?
On April 26, 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (then USSR) exploded during a safety test, releasing 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima bomb. The accident, the worst in civilian nuclear history, caused the evacuation of 350,000 people and contaminated vast regions of Europe. The long-term consequences for health and the environment are still debated.
On April 26, 1937, aircraft from the German Condor Legion and Italian aviation in the service of General Franco bombed Guernica, the sacred city of the Basque people, causing between 150 and 1,600 civilian casualties. The attack — the first aerial bombing of a civilian population in modern history — was immortalised by Pablo Picasso in his painting Guernica, a universal symbol of the horror of war.
On April 26, 1994, voting began in the first multiracial general elections in South Africa's history, in which all citizens — regardless of race — were able to vote for the first time. Nelson Mandela won the elections with 62% of the vote and became on May 10 the first Black president of South Africa, ending decades of apartheid.
Notable birthdays — April 26
Famous people born on April 26
Owen Willans Richardson
Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.
Charles Francis Richter
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, was widely used to quantify the size of earthquakes.
Virgil Trucks
Virgil Oliver "Fire" Trucks was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees between 1941 and 1958. He batted and threw right-handed.
Michael Mathias Prechtl
Michael Mathias Prechtl was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
Frank D'Rone
Frank D'Rone was an American jazz singer and guitarist.
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