Today in History

4/26/1983

CIA Director William Casey apologizes to the Senate Intelligence Committee for keeping the Nicaraguan mining a secret.

4/26/1986

A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver (a Kennedy niece) at the Kennedy Family Compound in Massachusetts.

4/26/1988

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

–George HW Bush, on the campaign trail

Happy Birthday

Roger Taylor of Duran Duran

One Response to “Today in History”

  1. Freida Bee:

    James Burke is gonna have a field day with this one!