On this day in History: April 26th. #history #shorts #facts

History Today, April 26th

In 1986 the most devastating nuclear disaster the world has ever seen occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear power station. 31 people died due to the explosion, and a large portion of Western Europe experienced radioactive contamination.

And in 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth dies. Union soldiers discovered Booth hiding in a barn, they set it on fire attempting to force him to exit. At some point the assassin suffered a gunshot wound and died.

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