MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · April 26
THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 26
April 26 in history
1986 — Chernobyl
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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