April 26 marks:
International Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Disaster. The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power disaster in the history of mankind, which claimed lives and caused irreparable damage to the environment. As a result of the Chernobyl reactor explosion in April 1986, a radioactive cloud covered part of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
The total radiation of the isotopes released into the air was 50 million curies, which is 30-40 times more than during the explosion of the bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. About 4,000 people died as a result of the explosion, including those who died decades after the accident from illnesses caused by radioactive exposure. In total, about 600,000 people received it at that time.
According to the International Program of the World Health Organization, 600,000 people participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, including the entire staff of the Chernobyl NPP. Since 2017, documents related to the Chernobyl accident have been entered into the international register of the UNESCO Memory of the World program.
International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters — the date was established by the UN General Assembly in December 2003 in honor of the memory of all victims of radiation accidents, as well as to raise awareness of the risks associated with the use of radiation. It also reminds people of the need to support victims and continue research in the field of radiation safety.
International Intellectual Property Day — on this day 50 years ago, the Convention on the basis of which the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was founded came into force.
Events on this day:
1945 – Ukraine joined the UN as a founding member;
1962 – launch into space of the Anglo-American satellite “Ariel”, the first ever international object in space;
1999 – the computer virus “Chernobyl” damaged, according to various estimates, up to half a million computers around the world.
On April 26, 1921, the first police patrol on a motorcycle appeared on the streets of London. Rudge-Whitworth motorcycles were mainly used, which gave the whole world the idea of fastening a car wheel with a nut through two cones. England in those years was a leading motorcycle country. So, the choice in the police was huge, everything depended on its purpose, especially it came in handy in rural areas.
On April 26, 1945, Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadskyi died – the hetman of the Ukrainian State in 1918, a military general, an outstanding Ukrainian politician who managed to make a fairly strong, self-sufficient state, with which the neighbors had to reckon, both in the West and in the East.
On April 26, 1966, at 5:23 local time, the Tashkent earthquake began. Its epicenter was located in the center of the city, the strength of the earthquake in the epicentral zone was about 8 points, and the zone of maximum damage was 10 square kilometers. More than 236 administrative buildings, about 700 trade and catering facilities, 26 communal enterprises, 181 educational institutions, 36 cultural and social institutions, 185 medical and 245 industrial buildings were destroyed. More than 78,000 families – more than 300,000 people – remained homeless. Eight deaths were registered, and about 150 people were hospitalized.
