How Many Days Until April 26?

This day in history: April 26

1. 1989

   An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.

2. 1989

   A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.

3. 1994

   Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

4. 1999

   The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

5. 2002

   An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany.

6. 2007

   Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.

7. 2017

   The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier.

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