APRIL 26, 1986 - DISASTER AT CHERNOBYL The Story of a Special Day for April 13On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant explodes, scattering radioactive material throughout the western USSR and Europe In other news, US troops shoot and kill Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth and the Luftwaffe bombs Guernica, inspiring the famous painting by Picasso.William Shakespeare (on the cover) was baptized on April 26, 1564. (In those days,...
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