On This Day - April 26, A Shot Of History

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1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfKm0XXfiis

2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_occupation_of_Lebanon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqqdxGe0S6c

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOh9pSNYhWA

1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBYwCenhAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV-AfP1uDNk

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