Today in History: Friday, April 26, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年4月26日，星期五

April 26th, 1986“The accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant, as one of the atomic reactors was damaged”The world's worst nuclear accident happens at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire at the plant kill at least 31 people, spewing radioactive clouds into the atmosphere that winds carry as far as Western Europe.

1865,Federal troops surround and kill John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, near Bowling Green, Virginia.

1607,English colonists wash ashore at what's now Cape Henry, Virginia. Weeks later they establish Jamestown --- the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

1937,Planes from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy raid the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

2000,Vermont's Governor Howard Dean signs the first bill in the United States allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.

And 1989,“Hello friends. I'm your Vitameatavegamin girl. Are you tired, run down, and listless? Do you poop out at parties?” Actress and comedienne Lucille Ball, star of the classic TV hit “I Love Lucy”, dies in Los Angeles, at age 77.

Today in History, April 26th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.