This Day in History - April 26, 2023

In 1957, Laika became the first living creature In 1962, a meeting in a New York hotel bar set in motion what would become Fantasy Football. In 1948, the Chicago Tribune misprinted 'Dewey defeats Truman' in their morning edition. In 2024, music producer Quincy Jones died at the a ... Show More

In 1988, the first computer worm was released into a computer system at M.I.T. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill, creating a federal holiday recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1963, the term 'Beatlemania!' was introduced into the lexicon after a Daily Mail headli ... Show More

In 1938, War Admiral and Seabiscuit faced off against each other in 'The Matchrace of the Century.' In 1993, the Maastricht Treaty came into effect, formally establishing the European Union. In 1800, the second US President John Adams and First Lady Abigail became the first resid ... Show More

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster in which the reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant suffered a full meltdown and explosion resulting in the worst nuc ... Show More

In 1986, the Chernobyl power plant became the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Poisonous radiation caused over 100,000 casualties, and cost billions of dollars to clean up. Even now, the exclusion zone is one of the most polluted and heavily-patrolled regions in the ... Show More

April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant. Peter Sagal and Craig Mazin discuss these events and more behind the series premiere of Chernobyl. They talk about w ... Show More

In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR, causing the worst nuclear accident ever. Sergii Mirnyi was in charge of a monitoring unit which measured radiation levels in the 30 km exclusion zone around the plant.(Photo: The Cherno ... Show More

On a spring morning in 1986 one of the most catastrophic events in global history occurs - Chernobyl. It brings chaos to the environment, chaos to Europe and chaos to Mikhail Gorbachev's premiership. Will he survive this?Stay connected with LegacyFollow us for clips, behind-the-s ... Show More

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