🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Sunday, April 26. Today we're checking out the Pazzi conspiracy, the Great Debate, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, the first modern container ship, the opening of Studio 54, the worst nuclear disaster ever, and a bunch more — all quick and to the point.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1478
Conspirators attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed Giuliano de' Medici in Florence.
-1859
Daniel E. Sickles was acquitted of murdering Philip Barton Key due to "temporary insanity," marking the first time this defense had been used in the US.
-1865
Union soldiers killed John Wilkes Booth 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
-1920
Harlow Shapley and Heber D. Curtis held the "Great Debate" on nebulae, galaxies, and the size of the universe at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C.
-1945
France's Vichy collaborationist regime's leader, Marshal Philippe Pétain, is arrested for treason.
-1954
"Seven Samurai", directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, was released.
-1954
The Salk polio vaccine trials began at Franklin Sherman Elementary in McLean, Virginia, involving 1.8 million children.
-1977
Studio 54 opens for the first time, quickly becoming the epicenter of the disco craze and the world's most famous nightclub.
-1986
Chornobyl's fourth reactor exploded, killing 31 people and contaminating Western Europe, the worst nuclear disaster in history.
-2005
Syria withdraws its last 14,000 troops from Lebanon, ending 29 years of military domination under international pressure.
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📸 Snapshot
First Miss America contestants with sashes, lined up on the Atlantic City boardwalk, 1921
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