April 26th, South Africa holds first non-racial democratic elections

1960- Togo gains independence from France.

1968- Explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurs in Ukraine, leaving environmental disaster.

1994- South Africa holds first non-racial democratic elections.

Born Today:

1879- Sir Owen Willans Richardson, a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928.

Passed away:

1879- Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville, a French poet and inventor.

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