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

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

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April 26

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Ma Rainey

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1986

Chernobyl nuclear accident

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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.]

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.]

1964: With the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania was founded, and Julius Nyerere served as its first president. [ How much do you know about African leaders?]

1954: Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai was released in Japan, and it is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. [Take our movie quiz.]

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. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about European history.]

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