Day: April 26, 1957

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Television

Escape Into Night: Episode 2

  • April 26, 1972

Escape Into NightITV broadcasts the second episode of Escape Into Night, adapted by Ruth Boswell from the Catherine Storr novel Marianne Dreams. Though originally shown in color, the color master tapes are lost over time, and the series survives only in black & white recordings.

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Atomic Energy Science & Technology

The Chernobyl disaster

  • April 26, 1986

Chernobyl disasterA major accident at the #4 reactor of the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power facility, near the border of Ukraine and Belarus, causes a significant release of radioactive material into the air. Much of the material has immediate consequences for the nearby city of Pripyat, but the effects are felt both elsewhere in the Soviet Union and in Europe. Worse still, the Soviet government tries to cover up the incident, until the mounting evidence of a major incident forces them to admit, two days after the fact, that a core meltdown occurred and that the resulting release of radioactive material has international reach and consequences. Some emergency workers die of massive radiation exposure, and an increase is seen in other illnesses, including cancer, in exposed human populations nearby. Over 100,000 people are evacuated from nearby areas. Premature deaths and genetic mutations are observed in nearby wildlife for years after the incident. The costs of mitigation and containment of the toxic reactor site will become a major factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union a few years later. The exclusion zone established around the facility may be a safe place for humans to live again for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years.

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Television

Mann & Machine: Water, Water Everywhere

  • April 26, 1992

Mann & MachineThe fourth episode of the science fiction police series Mann & Machine, co-created by Dick Wolf and Robert de Laurentiis, is broadcast on NBC, starring David Andrews and Yancy Butler. Curtis Armstrong (Revenge Of The Nerds) and Mitchell Ryan guest star. The series is cancelled due to low ratings after this episode, with the five remaining produced episodes “burned off” over the summer.

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Columbia Crewed Spaceflight Space Shuttle

STS-55

  • April 26, 1993

Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a mission lasting nearly ten days, carrying the Spacelab laboratory module in its cargo bay. This flight, Spacelab D-2, includes medical and material experiments, with one experiment controlled by an Apple Macintosh computer carried into orbit. Amateur radio messages are exchanged with the crew of the Mir space station. Aboard Columbia for her 14th flight are Commander Steven Nagel, Pilot Terence Henricks, mission specialists Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt and Bernard Harris Jr., and payload specialists Ulrich Walter and Hans Schlegel.

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Television X-Files

The X-Files: Avatar

  • April 26, 1996

The X-FilesThe 70th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Jennifer Hetrick (Star Trek: The Next Generation and Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest star.

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Television

From The Earth To The Moon: Night 4

  • April 26, 1998

From The Earth To The MoonPay cable channel HBO’s heavily-promoted docudrama miniseries From The Earth To The Moon, continues, executive produced by actor Tom Hanks (Apollo 13) through Ron Howard’s Imagine Films. The series chronicles NASA’s quest to reach the moon, and two episodes debut each Sunday of the show’s run. The fourth night premieres the episodes That’s All There Is (Apollo 12) and We Interrupt This Broadcast (Apollo 13). Dave Foley (The Kids In The Hall) stars as Alan Bean, with Paul McCrane (ER, The Shawshank Redemption) as Pete Conrad. Jay Mohr and Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager) guest star.

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