Incidents on 26 April 2025
Saturday, 26 April 2025 — before continuous monitoring began on 9 August 2026. For this day we hold earthquakes from the USGS catalogue (magnitude 2.5 and above) and a few historical records, not a full record of every incident.
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Outbreak of CIH computer virus.
Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
Historical entries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), filtered to disasters and incidents.