On this day …
April 26, 2017
- In 1564, playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, presumably three days after his birth.
- In 1721, an earthquake devastated the Iranian city of Tabriz.
- In 1865, Union cavalry troopers in Virginia shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
- In 1962, NASA’s Ranger 4 probe crashed into the Moon.
- In 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
- In 1986, an accident at the Chernoybl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine created the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
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