Brooklyn Today: April 26, 2012
Good morning. Today is the 117th day of the year. It is the anniversary of the 1985 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. At 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power station at Pripyat in the Ukraine. The resulting fire burned for days, sending radioactive material into the atmosphere. More than 100,000 people were evacuated from a 300-square-mile area around the plant. Three months after the disaster, 31 people were reported to have died and thousands of people had been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
Well-known people who were born today include actor Giancarlo Esposito (Do the Right Thing, Twilight), actor Kevin James (“The King of Queens”), singer Bobby Rydell (“Wild One,” “Volare”) and musician Duane Eddy (“Rebel Rouser”).
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