Today is Saturday, April 26, on 116 of 2025. 249 days are left in the year.
Today in history:
On April 26, 1986, in the worst nuclear disaster in history, an explosion and a fire in the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant in Ukraine Caautive Fallout to guide the atmosphere. The boxes of people were immediately killed after the disaster, while the number of long -term deaths of the poisoning radiation is believed in the number of thousands.
Also on this date:
In 1607, English settlers came to land in the current Cape Henry, Virginia, in an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western hemisphere.
In 1865, John Wilkes Both, President Abraham Lincoln’s murderer, was surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Virginia, and killed.
In 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13 -year -old worker in a Georgia pencil factory, was strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, was convicted of his murder and sentenced to death. (Frank’s death sentence was switched, but was lynching by an anti -Semitic mafia in 1915)
In 1964, the African nations of Tanganica and Zanzíbar merged to form what is now known as Tanzania.
In 1977, the legendary night study 54 had its opening night in New York.
In 1994, the vote advanced in the first elections of the entire South Africa career, which resulted in the victory for the African National Congress and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president.
In 2000, the governor of Vermont Howard Dean signed the first bill of nations that allowed same -sex couples to form civil unions.
In 2012, the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international court of war crimes, since he was declared guilty of helping and abining war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the use of coolers. (Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison).
In 2018, Comedian Bill Cosby was sentenced by drugs and abus the employee of the University of the Temple, Andrea Constand, in the suburban mansion of Cosby of Philadelphia in 2004. Hightionia of Highhtionia of Hightionia of Highhtionia of Highhationia of Highhtionia of Highhtionia.
Today’s birthday:
- The actor-comediana Carol Burnett is 92 years old.
- The composer producer Giorgio Moroder is 85.
- The gold medalist of Olympic swimming, Donna de Varona, is 78 years old.
- The actor Giancarlo Esposito is 67.
- Actor Joan Chen is 64 years old.
- Actor Jet Li is 62.
- The actor-comedian Kevin James is 60 years old.
- The former American poet Laureada Natasha Trethewey is 59 years old.
- Actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 58 years old.
- The first lady Melania Trump is 55 years old.
- The singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins (TLC) is 55.
- The country musician Jay Demarcus (Rascal Flatts) is 54.
- Actor Tom Welling is 48.
- The actor Pablo Schreiber is 47.
- Actor Jordana Brewster is 45 years old.
- Actor Channing Tatum is 45 years old.
- The New York Yankees gardener, Aaron Judge, is 33 years old.
