On This Day for April 26 - Chernobyl nuclear accident, Ma Rainey is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-26 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-26 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History
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April 26
Ma Rainey and her band
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Ma Rainey
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Chernobyl disaster
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1986
Chernobyl nuclear accident
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Bill Cosby
2018: Amid numerous allegations of sexual assault, American comedian and actor Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, and he later received a sentence of 3 to 10 years in prison.
Jack Valenti
2007: Jack Valenti—the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America who created the film-rating system that assigns labels for audience suitability (G, PG, PG-13, R, or NC-17)—died at age 85. [ Test your knowledge of film.]
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
1989: Actress Lucille Ball—a longtime comedy star of American television, best remembered for her classic comedy series I Love Lucy—died in Los Angeles. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about actors.]
Tanzania
1964: With the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania was founded, and Julius Nyerere served as its first president.
Pablo Picasso: Guernica
1937: During the Spanish Civil War, the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica.
Hermann Göring
1933: Hermann Göring formed the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany that ruthlessly eliminated opposition and was involved in the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps. [ Take our quiz about Nazi officials.]
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Marcus Aurelius
emperor of Rome
1963
Jet Li
Chinese actor
1933
Carol Burnett
American comedian and actress
1894
Rudolf Hess
German Nazi leader
1889
Ludwig Wittgenstein
British philosopher
1798
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
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