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Sunday, 14 June 2026
Apr 22 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row. 
Apr 22 Mircea Eliade, writer, dies
Apr 23 Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81.
Apr 24 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89.
Apr 24 Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) dies
Apr 26 An accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant leads to widespread nuclear contamination
Apr 26 Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87
Apr 26 Broderick Crawford actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74.
Apr 26 Kashmir-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake resulted in six people killed, about 30 injured and 85 percent of the houses damaged in the Dharmsala, India area
Apr 26 Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger marry.
Apr 26 Worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl USSR, 31 die.
Apr 27 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
Apr 28 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
Apr 29 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25.
Apr 30 Ashrita Furman peformed 8341 somersaults over 12 miles
Apr 30 In the Michoacan, Mexico region a 7.0 earthquake caused some minor damage (V) in the Mexico City area.
May 01 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
May 01 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap.
May 01 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole.
May 02 Henri Toivonen, Finnish rallydriver (b.1956).
May 02 In this year, Dynamo Kiev claims 26th Europe Cup II
May 02 In Vancouver BC, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo '86;
May 02 Radiation released from the Chernobyl accident reach France, Britain.
May 02 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver British Columbia
May 03 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
May 03 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby
May 03 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit.
May 03 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72.
May 05 Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76
May 06 Donald E Pelotte is recorded as becoming inaugural native American bishop.
May 06 In this year, Berlin Real Madrid claims 15th UEFA Cup
May 07 Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75.
May 09 Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], Limbourg activist, dies at 60
May 09 Tenzing Norgay, one of the inaugural two people to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, dies.
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