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.
Chernobyl disaster. The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).