历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-26（在线收听） |
April 26th, 1986The world’s worst nuclear accident happens at Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire at the plant kills at least 31 people, spewing radioactive clouds into the atmosphere that winds carry as far as Western Europe. 1865Federal troops surround and kill John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin near Bowling Green, Virginia.
1607English colonists wash ashore what’s now Cape Henry, Virginia. Weeks later, they establish Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
1937Planes from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, raid the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
2000Vermont’ Governor Howard Dean signs the first bill in the United States allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
And 1989Actress and comedienne Lucille Ball, star of the classic TV hit “I love Lucy” dies in Los Angeles, at the age of 77.
Today in History, April 26th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press. |
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