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1986 : Reactor number 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine explodes, causing the worst nuclear reactor disaster in the world

1964 : Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form a new state, Unity of the Republic of Tanzania, located in East Africa

1937 : German plane bombs one city in Basque, Guernica, during the Spanish Civil War, an event that inspired the famous Pablo Picasso painting, Guernica

1865 : John Wilkes Booth, the killer of Abraham Lincoln, was found on a farm near Bowling Green, Virginia, and died there during the ensuing firefight, possibly due to suicide

1564 : English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, baptized at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon

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