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Chernobyl disaster
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Chernobyl disaster

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On 26 April 1986, reactor no.‍4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disaster, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at the maximum severity on the Intern…

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Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor and musician. The recipient of numerous accolades in a career on screen spannin…

Kawhi Leonard
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Kawhi Leonard
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Kawhi Anthony Leonard is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketb…

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On This Day

10 events
2012
Nik_Wallenda
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
2006
George_W._Bush
US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
2001
Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation
Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
1996
The_Troubles
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
1995
1995_Aigio_earthquake
Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.
1991
Mount_Pinatubo
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
1978
Hussein_of_Jordan
King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
1944
World_War_II
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.
1921
Bessie_Coleman
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
1920
Duluth_lynchings
Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.

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