April 26
Tuesday 26, 1994:
A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
Saturday 26, 1986:
In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Thursday 26, 1962:
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
Sunday 26, 1942:
The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
Sunday 26, 1925:
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic.
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