An exchange of cultural assets between the GDR and the West Berlin Senate.
17-21 April
1986
The 10th SED Party Conference is dominated by SED hardliners who continue to refuse to support Gorbachev’s reforms.
In a guest speech, the Soviet party and state leader Mikhail Gorbachev makes further proposals on disarmament, which aim mainly to reduce conventional weapons in Europe.
10th SED Party Conference 1986 (Photo: Dietz Verlag)
A catastrophic core meltdown and explosion occur in Block 4 of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The explosions release large quantities of radiation, which is carried hundreds of kilometres in a radioactive cloud.more
