On This Day in History
April 26
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? Pazzi conspirators attack and kill Giuliano de' Medici in Florence
? Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis hold the "Great Debate" on the nature of nebulae, galaxies, and the size of the universe at the US National Academy of Sciences
? Marshal , leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, is arrested for treason
? First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
'I Love You Pripyat, Forgive Me!' scrawled on the walls of a Pripyat
clinic during its hasty evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster |
? The world's worst nuclear disaster occurs when the fourth , resulting in 31 deaths and radioactive contamination spreading to much of Western Europe
? Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troops from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of the country
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When Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel over a sodomite slur, he opened the door to social and financial ruin that would lead to his death.
