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April 26th, 2007 | Event | Queen s Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong s Central district |
April 26th, 2005 | Event | 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. |
April 26th, 2002 | Event | Robert Steinhauser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
April 26th, 1994 | Event | A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264. |
April 26th, 1994 | Event | Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle. |
April 26th, 1991 | Event | Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year s only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). |
April 26th, 1986 | Event | In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world s worst nuclear disaster. |
April 26th, 1982 | Event | 57 people are killed by former Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. |
April 26th, 1966 | Event | An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent. |
April 26th, 1964 | Event | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. |
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