Tuesday, April 26, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

APRIL 26
1937:The German Luftwaffe bombs the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, killing or wounding hundreds of the town’s 5,000 residents. Less than two months later, Pablo Picasso completes the painting Guernica, immortalizing the town’s destruction.

1607: Capt. Christopher Newport and 104 English settlers aboard the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery make landfall at Cape Henry, Va. Farther up the James River, 40 miles inland at Jamestown, they will establish the first permanent European settlement in North America.

1986: A powerful explosion at the number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near present-day Pripyat, Ukraine, immediately kills 31 people and releases high levels of radioactivity into the atmosphere, eventually causing illness and death among thousands of others in the surrounding region. The area around Chernobyl continues to be uninhabitable.
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