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Today in History highlights major events across centuries
Today in history spotlights key moments on April 26 including the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 with deaths and disputed figures, the landing of English colonists at Cape Henry in 1607, Audubon’s birth in 1785, Booth’s death in 1865, Abdul Hamid II’s deposition in 1909, the 1937 Guernica raid, and Petain’s 1945 arrest by French authorities.
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Chernobyl Plant
Ukraine
Soviet Union
Cape Henry
John James Audubon
Haiti
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Bowling Green
Abdul Hamid II
Ottoman Empire
Guernica
Henri Philippe Petain
France
Associated Press