1986
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Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday
(link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar).
- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1986
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths - Ship events
- 4 Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
[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
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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
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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 astronaut
s 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
.
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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
- Hailstone
s 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
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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
.
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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
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