On this day, 59 years ago, on April 26, 1966 (March 6, 1966, the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, suffered a strong earthquake. A powerful earthquake in the early morning of April 26, 1966 turned the entire city into ruins, leaving 300,000 people homeless. After the earthquake, the city underwent large-scale reconstruction, and a special monument was erected in the city square to make people remember this major natural disaster forever. The monument is a huge square stone with cracks on one side and a clock face on the other. The hands point at 5:24, the moment of the earthquake.