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Template:C20YearInTopicX Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar).

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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1986

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths  -  Ship events

4 Nobel prizes -  Templeton Prize

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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[edit] Events of 1986

[edit] January

• January 1 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.
• January 1 - Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.

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• January 9 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• January 12 - STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.
• January 19 - The first PC 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., is observed.
• January 24 - The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.
• January 26 - The Chicago Bears win Super Bowl XX.
• January 28 - STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).
• January 29 - Yoweri Museveni becomes President of Uganda after leading a successful 5-year liberation struggle.

[edit] February

February
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• February 2 - One of Australia's worst crimes, the Anita Cobby murder, occurs.
• February 7 - President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.
• February 9 - Mohinder Amarnath becomes the first batsman dismissed for handling the ball in one-day international cricket.
• February 9 - Comet Halley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.
• February 11 - Human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the Soviet Union and leaves the country.
• February 16 - The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• February 16 - The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
• 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 21 - Nintendo releases the Famicom Disk System in Japan. A customer could re-write games with the disk for 500 yen. The instruction manual was sold seperatly for 100 yen. The first game enhanced with Famicom Disk System capabilities was The Legend of Zelda.
• February 25 - EDSA Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president. Salvador Laurel becomes her Prime Minister.
• February 25 - Egyptian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the pyramids, set fire to them and loot them.
• February 27 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
• February 28 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead on his way home from the cinema.

[edit] March

March
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• March 3 - The first paper is published describing the Atomic force microscope, invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christophe Berger. [1]
• March 4 - The Today national tabloid newspaper is launched in the United Kingdom, pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers still use Linotype machines and letterpress.
• March 8 - Japanese spacecraft 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 7 astronauts are still inside.
• March 13 - Irish racemare Dawn Run wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham, England, becoming the first racehorse to complete the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double.
• March 26 - An article in the New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.
• March 27 - A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing a police officer.
• March 31 - A fire devastates Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England.

[edit] April

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April
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• April 2 - A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.
• April 5 - 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discotheque, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230; 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 - Hailstones weighing 2.2 lb (880 g) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
• April 15 - At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region as part of Operation El Dorado Canyon.
• April 17 - British journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (released in August 1991) - 3 others are found dead; Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claims responsibility in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya.
• April 17 - A treaty ends the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly.
• April 17 - The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.
• April 21 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, discovering only a bottle of moonshine.
• April 26 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus are rendered uninhabitable.
• April 27 - "Captain Midnight" interrupts HBO satellite feed.
• April 29 - Roger Clemens set the record for the most strikeouts, in a nine inning MLB game

[edit] May-June

May
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• May 2 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens.
• May 16 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
• May 24 - The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup beating the Calgary Flames in 5 games.
• May 25 - Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
• May 26 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
• May 31 - The 1986 FIFA World Cup begins in Mexico.

June
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• 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 defeats West Germany 3-2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] July

July
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