Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 26

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• 1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942 - The worst ever mining accident occurs when 1,549 miners are killed by an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
• 1986 - In the Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes creating the worlds worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident and many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.

[edit] World Intellectual Property Day

This article has no sources other than WIPO websites and press releases and thus no indication that this is a bonafide holiday. What differentiates this from a corporation declaring April 26 to be "Buy-more-stuff-from-Walmart day" or "Spend-the-night-at-a-Westin day." I'm removing it until someone can produce non-trivial mentions in independent media that confirm that this is observed by anyone other than the one NGO than established it. Savidan 20:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)