Wikipedia has an article on: Ribston pippin. A triploid cultivar of apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red. [quotations â¼] 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55 [â¦] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing. Retrieved from https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Ribston_pippin&oldid=48237497 Categories:
Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. On this day in 1986, the worldâs worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning.
A cover-up was attempted, but on April 28 Swedish radiation monitoring stations, more than 800 miles to the northwest of Chernobyl, reported radiation levels 40 percent higher than normal. Later that day, the Soviet news agency acknowledged that a major nuclear accident had occurred at Chernobyl. In the opening days of the crisis, 32 people died at Chernobyl and dozens more suffered radiation burns.