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'''1986''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXXXVI''') was a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
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January 1 -
Spain and
Portugal enter the ''
European Community'', which later became the
European Union.
*
January 1 -
Aruba gains increased autonomy from the
Netherlands and is separated from the
Netherlands Antilles.
*
January 9 - After losing a patent battle with
Polaroid Corporation Polaroid,
Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
*
January 12 -
Space shuttle Columbia is launched with the first
Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr.
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
*
January 19 - The first PC virus,
(c)Brain (computer virus) Brain, starts to spread.
*
January 20 - The
United Kingdom and
France announce plans to construct the
Channel Tunnel.
*
January 20 - The first federal
Martin Luther King Day, honoring
Martin Luther King Jr.
*
January 24 -
Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with
Uranus (planet) Uranus
*
January 28 -
Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51-L disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of six astronauts and the schoolteacher
Christa McAuliffe.
*
January 29 -
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of
Uganda after leading a successful
1981 five-year liberation struggle.
February
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Hawaii.
*
February 7 - 28 years of one-family rule end in
Haiti, when President
Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the
Caribbean nation.
*
February 9 -
Mohinder Amarnath becomes the first
batsman Dismissal (cricket) dismissed for
handled the ball handling the ball in
one-day international cricket.
*
February 9 -
Comet Halley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Earth, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century.
*
February 11 -
Human Rights activist
Natan Sharansky Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the
Soviet Union USSR and leaves the country.
*
February 16 - The Soviet liner
Mikhail Lermontov (ship) Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the
Marlborough Sounds,
New Zealand
*
February 19 - The
Soviet Union launches the
Mir space station
*
February 19 - After waiting 37 years, the
United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing
genocide
*
February 25 -
EDSA Revolution: President
Ferdinand Marcos of the
Philippines goes into exile to USA after
1965 20 years of rule;
Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as in interim president.
*
February 25 -
Egyptian military police, protesting bad salaries, enter four luxury hotels near the
pyramids, set fire to them and loot them
*
February 27 - The
United States Senate allows its debates to be
television televised on a trial basis
*
February 28 - Swedish prime minister
Olof Palme is shot dead on his way home from the cinema.
March
*
March 4 - Launch of the
Today national
tabloid newspaper in the
United Kingdom that pioneered the use of computer photosetting and full-colour
offset printing at a time when British national newspapers were still using
Linotype machines and
letterpress.
*
March 8 -
Japanese spacecraft
Suisei probe Suisei flies by
Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
*
March 9 -
United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the
Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven
astronauts were still inside.
*
March 27 - A
car bomb explodes at
Russell Street Bombing Russell Street Police HQ in
Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
*
March 31 - A fire devastates
Hampton Court Palace in
Surrey,
England.
*
March 31 -
Judas Priest releases ''
Turbo (album) Turbo''.
April
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*
April 2 - A bomb explodes on a
TWA flight from
Rome to
Athens - 4 dead
*
April 5 - In the
terrorism terroristic 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing La Belle discotheque bombing the
West-Berlin discotheque, a known hangout for
United States U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people.
Libya is held responsible.
*
April 13 -- Pope John Paul II officially visits the
Synagogue of Rome — the first time a modern Pope had visited a synagogue.
*
April 14 - 2.2 lb (1 kg)
hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of
Bangladesh, killing 92.
*
April 15 - At least 100 people died after
USA planes bombed targets in the Libyan capital,
Tripoli, and the
Benghazi region as part of
Operation El Dorado Canyon
*
April 17 - British journalist
John McCarthy (journalist) John McCarthy kidnapped in Beirut (released in August
1991) - three others are found dead,
Revolutionary Cells claims responsibility in retaliation for the US bombing of Libya.
*
April 17 - Treaty signed, ending
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the
Netherlands and the
Isles of Scilly.
*
April 26 - In
Ukraine, one of the reactors at the
Chornobyl (Chernobyl)
nuclear plant explodes creating the world's worst
nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more died from cancer in later years, many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of
radioactive material, vast territories in
Ukraine and
Belarus rendered uninhabitable.
*
April 27 - "
Home Box Office#Captain Midnight Attacks Captain Midnight" interrupts
HBO satellite feed
May
*
May 2 - The
1986 World Exposition in
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada opens.
*
May 7 -
Steaua Bucharest wins the
European Champions Cup in
Sevilla
*
May 25 -
Hands Across America
*
May 26 - The
European Community adopts the
European flag.
*
May 31 - The
Football World Cup 1986 is held in
Mexico
June
*
June 4 -
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to
espionage for selling top secret
United States military intelligence to
Israel.
*
June 8 - Former
United Nations Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim is elected president of
Austria.
*
June 9 - The
Rogers Commission releases its report on the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
*
June 29 -
Argentina national football team Argentina defeat
German national football team West Germany 3-2 to win the
Football World Cup 1986
July
*
July 5 - The
Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing
*
July 23 - In
London,
Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries
Sarah Ferguson at
Westminster Abbey.
*
July 30 - Estate agent
Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London
August
*
August 6 - A low pressure system moving from
South Australia and redeveloping off the
New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on
Sydney.
*
August 18 - Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
*
August 19 -
Picasso painting ''Weeping Woman'' is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in
Melbourne,
Australia. It had been stolen two weeks earlier.
*
August 20 - In
Edmond, Oklahoma,
United States Postal Service employee
Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing
suicide.
*
August 21 - The
Lake Nyos tragedy occurs, killing nearly 2000 people.
*
August 31 - The
Soviet Union Soviet passenger liner ''
Admiral Nakhimov (ship) Admiral Nakhimov'' collides with the bulk carrier ''Pyotr Vasev'' in the
Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.
*
August 31 - An
Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a
Piper PA-28 over
Cerritos, California, killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.
*
August 31 - Cargo ship ''
Khian Sea waste disposal incident Khian Sea'' departs from the docks of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It will wander the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.
September
*
September 5 -
Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is
hijacking hijacked at
Karachi International Airport by four armed men of the
Abu Nidal organization which operated much in the same manner as
Al Qaeda.
*
September 6 - In
Istanbul, two
Arab terrorists from
Abu Nidal Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the
Neve Shalom synagogue during
Sabbath services.
*
September 7 -
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the
Anglican Communion Anglican Church in
South Africa.
*
September 21-
Cheryl Keeton is found dead in her van on the '''Sunset Highway''', inspiring the novel
Dead By Sunset
*
September 27 - A tour bus carrying heavy metal band
Metallica crashes in Sweden, killing their bassist,
Cliff Burton.
October
*
October 1 -
Ronald Reagan President Ronald Reagan signs the
Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the
United States Department of Defense since the
United States Air Force Air Force was made a separate branch of service in
1947.
*
October 9 -
United States District Court Judge
Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through
impeachment.
*
October 10 - An
earthquake measuring 7.5 on the
Richter Scale strikes
San Salvador,
El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
*
October 11 -
Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev meet in
ReykjavÃk,
Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate
missile arsenals in
Europe (the talks break down in failure).
*
October 26 -
Bus deregulation in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.
*
October 27 - The
New York Mets win the
Major League Baseball World Series, beating the
Boston Red Sox in seven games.
*
October 28 - The centennial of the
Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in
New York Harbor.
*
October 28 -
Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the
murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and is given five
life sentences.
November
*
November 1 -
Queensland,
Australia:
Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as
Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on
December 1 1987 following revelations of his involvement corruption released in the
Fitzgerald Inquiry.
*
November 3 -
Iran-Contra Affair: The
Lebanon Lebanese magazine
Ash-Shiraa reports that the
United States has been selling weapons to
Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American
hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
*
November 11 -
Sperry Rand and
Burroughs merge to form
Unisys, becoming the second largest
computer company
*
November 12 - Australian singer
John Farnham releases the album "Whispering Jack", which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.
*
November 21 -
Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member
Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to
Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
*
November 25 -
Iran-Contra Affair: US Attorney General
Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to
Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
*
November 26 -
Iran-Contra Affair:
President of the United States U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that as of
December 1 Monday, December 1 former Senator
John Tower, former Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser
Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the
Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.
December
*
December 14 -
Scaled Composites Voyager Voyager, an experimental
aircraft designed by
Burt Rutan and piloted by
Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.
*
December 19 - Soviet dissident
Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to
Moscow after years of
internal exile
*
December 23 -
Scaled Composites Voyager Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds
*
December 31 - A fire at the
Dupont Plaza Hotel in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
Unknown dates
*
Atomic force microscope invented
*The
National park passport stamps program begins.
Births
January
*
January 17 -
Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer
*
January 24 -
Mischa Barton, British-born American actress
*
January 24 -
Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born actor
*
January 29 -
Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
February
*
February 5 -
Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen
*
February 15 -
Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
*
February 19 -
Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
*
February 21 -
Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
*
February 25 -
Justin Berfield, American actor
March
*
March 9 -
Brittany Snow, American actress
*
March 14 -
Jamie Bell, British actor
April
*
April 3 -
Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
*
April 8 -
Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress and model
*
April 10 -
Vincent Kompany, Belgian soccer player
*
April 28 -
Keri Sable, American pornographic actress
May
May 17 -
Tahj Mowry, American actor
June
*
June 3 -
Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
*
June 11 -
Shia LaBeouf, American actor
*
June 13 -
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
*
June 25 -
Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
July
*
July 2 -
Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
*
July 6 -
Caroline Welz,
Tallest woman in
Germany and model
August
*
August 20 -
Robert Clark (actor) Robert Clark, Canadian actor
September
*
September 3 -
Shaun White, American professional snowboarder
*
September 12 -
Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
*
September 16 -
Hasib Hussain, British suicide bomber (d.
2005)
*
September 18 -
Keeley Hazell, British model
*
September 29 -
Lisa Foiles, American actress and singer
October
*
October 9 -
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
*
October 21 -
Natalee Holloway
*
October 30 -
Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
November
*
November 3 -
Jasmine Trias, Filipino - American singer
*
November 5 -
BoA, Korean singer
*
November 15 -
Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
December
*
December 8 -
Amir Khan, British Boxer
Deaths
January
*
January 1 -
Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b.
1902)
*
January 4 -
Phil Lynott, Lead singer and Bassist of Thin Lizzy (b.
1949)
*
January 7 -
Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b.
1917)
*
January 8 -
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b.
1906)
*
January 10 -
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
*
January 14 -
Donna Reed, American actress (b.
1921)
*
January 24 -
L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b.
1911)
*
January 24 -
Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b.
1921)
*
January 24 -
Vincente Minnelli, American director (b.
1903)
*
January 27 -
Lilli Palmer, actress (b.
1914)
*
January 28 - Crew of
Space Shuttle Challenger:
**
Greg Jarvis (b.
1944)
**
Christa McAuliffe (b.
1948)
**
Ronald McNair (b.
1950)
**
Ellison Onizuka (b.
1946)
**
Judith Resnik (b.
1949)
**
Dick Scobee Francis R. Scobee (b.
1939)
**
Michael J. Smith (b.
1945)
February
*
February 1 -
Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1902)
*
February 6 -
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1899)
*
February 11 -
Frank Herbert, American author (b.
1920)
*
February 24 -
Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "
Father of Medicare" in Canada (b.
1904)
*
February 27 -
Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b.
1929)
*
February 28 -
Olof Palme,
Prime Minister of Sweden (b.
1927)
March
*
March 4 -
Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (
The Band) (b.
1943)
*
March 6 -
Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b.
1887)
*
March 10 -
Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b.
1907)
*
March 30 -
James Cagney, American actor (b.
1899)
April
*
April 3 -
Peter Pears, English tenor (b.
1910)
*
April 7 -
Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1912)
*
April 14 -
Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b.
1908)
*
April 15 -
Jean Genet, French writer (b.
1910)
*
April 22 -
Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b.
1907)
*
April 23 -
Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b.
1906)
*
April 26 -
Broderick Crawford, American actor (b.
1911)
*
April 26 -
Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b.
1899)
*
April 27 -
David Schell, Iranian writer (b.
1901)
May
*
May 3 -
Robert Alda, American-born actor (b.
1914)
*
May 4 -
Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b.
1956)
*
May 9 -
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b.
1914)
*
May 12 -
Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b.
1897)
*
May 15 -
Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b.
1958)
*
May 15 -
Theodore H. White, American writer (b.
1915)
*
May 23 -
Sterling Hayden, American actor (b.
1916)
*
May 25 -
Chester Bowles, American politician (b.
1901)
*
May 31 -
James Rainwater, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1917)
June
*
June 13 -
Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b.
1909)
*
June 14 -
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b.
1899)
*
June 16 -
Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b.
1902)
*
June 17 -
Kate Smith, American singer (b.
1907))
*
June 19 -
Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b.
1944)
July
*
July 4 -
Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b.
1899)
*
July 6 -
Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b.
1908)
*
July 8 -
Hyman Rickover, American admiral (b.
1900)
*
July 8 -
Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b.
1909)
*
July 14 -
Raymond Loewy, French-born industrial designer (b.
1893)
*
July 15 -
Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b.
1923)
*
July 24 -
Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1899)
August
*
August 2 -
Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (b.
1927)
*
August 20 -
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (b.
1923)
*
August 31 -
Urho Kekkonen,
President of Finland (b.
1900)
*
August 31 -
Henry Moore, British sculptor (b.
1898)
September
*
September 4 -
Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b.
1911)
*
September 25 -
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896)
*
September 27 -
Cliff Burton, American bassist (
Metallica) (b.
1962)
October
*
October 5 -
James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b.
1919)
*
October 16 -
Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b.
1921)
*
October 22 -
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1893)
*
October 23 -
Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1893)
*
October 25 -
Forrest Tucker, American actor (b.
1919)
*
October 26 -
Jackson Scholz, American runner (b.
1897)
*
October 28 -
Ian Marter, British actor and writer (b.
1944)
*
October 31 -
Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1896)
November
*
November 6 -
Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b.
1911)
*
November 8 -
Artur London, Czech statesman (b.
1915)
*
November 8 -
Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b.
1890)
*
November 18 -
Gia Carangi, Supermodel (b.
1960)
*
November 21 -
Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b.
1947)
*
November 22 -
Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b.
1910)
*
November 29 -
Cary Grant, British actor (b.
1904)
December
*
December 8 -
Ben Dover, American actor (b.
1940)
*
December 28 -
Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b.
1932)
*
December 29 -
Harold Macmillan, British statesman (b.
1894)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Ernst Ruska,
Gerd Binnig,
Heinrich Rohrer
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Dudley R Herschbach,
Yuan T Lee,
John C. Polanyi John C Polanyi
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Stanley Cohen (doctor) Stanley Cohen,
Rita Levi-Montalcini
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Wole Soyinka
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace -
Elie Wiesel
*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Economics -
James M. Buchanan James Buchanan Jr
Fields Medal Fields Medalists
*
Simon Donaldson,
Gerd Faltings,
Michael Freedman
Templeton Prize
*
Princeton Theological Seminary Rev. Dr. James McCord
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