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April 26, 1986
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Radioactive material was leaked from a damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine the effects could be measured thousands of miles away 
 
April 26, 1968
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The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the US exploded in Nevada 
 
April 26, 1957
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English astronomer Patrick Moore presented the first broadcast of The Sky at Night 
 
April 26, 1940
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Karl Bosch, German metallurgist and chemist, dies 
 
April 26, 1907
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Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens 
 
April 26, 1906
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First motion pictures shown in Hawaii 
 
April 26, 1905
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Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play 
 
April 26, 1904
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Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms 
 
April 26, 1900
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AL opener in Cleve draws 6,500 
 
April 26, 1785
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John James Audubon, US naturalist and painter, is born 
 
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