THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 26
April 26 in history
What happened on April 26: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1937 and 1986, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Bombing of Guernica
26 Apr 1937 — The Condor Legion burns a Basque market town from the air; hundreds die. Picasso’s canvas makes it the century’s warning of what bombing means. Remember.
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— Chernobyl disaster
26 Apr 1986 — Reactor 4 explodes; the state lies for days while fallout crosses Europe. ~50 direct deaths, thousands of projected ones, 350,000 displaced. Gorbachev later calls it “perhaps the real cause” of collapse. Remember.
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