Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
- The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
- Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first human open fetal surgery.
- Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
- A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
- The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
- People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak’s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year’s only F5 tornado.
- China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
- Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
- Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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