Events
DateEvent
1986 John Antill Died
1986 Harold Arlen Died
1986 Desi Arnaz Died
1986 Mansi Barberis Died
1986 Celius Dougherty Died
1986 Maurice Duruflé Died
1986 Jens Bjerre Jacobsen Died
1986 Lars-Erik Larsson Died
1986 Francisco Mignone Died
1986 Flor Peeters Died
1986 Marcel Quinet Died
June 21 1986 Assi Rahbani Died
1986 Edmund Rubbra Died
1986 John Laurence Seymour Died
1986 Daniel Sternefeld Died
1986 Stjepan Šulek Died
November 15 1986 Alexandre Tansman Died
1986 Dag Wirén Died
January 01 1986 Aruba Gains Independence From Curaçao
January 01 1986 European Community Admits Spain And Portugal
January 11 1986 Australian Gateway Bridge Officially Opened
January 12 1986 Congressman Nelson Rides Space Shuttle
January 13 1986 Violent Struggle In South Yemen Occurs
January 16 1986 Internet Engineering Task Force's Meet First
January 19 1986 IBM Xcomputer Vrus Released By The Farooq Alvi Brothers
January 20 1986 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Federal Holiday
January 23 1986 First Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Members Inducted
January 24 1986 Voyager 2 Was 50,600 Miles From Uranus
January 25 1986 Uganda's Tito Okello Falls To Resistance
January 26 1986 Tito Okello's Regime Is Overthrown In Uganda
January 28 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion Kills Seven Astronauts
February 07 1986 28 Years Haiti Family Rule Ends
February 08 1986 Hinton Train Collision Occurs In Alberta, Canada
February 09 1986 Halley's Comet Appeared In Solar System
February 16 1986 New Zealand: Soviet Liner Runs Aground
February 19 1986 80 Die In The Akkaraipattu Massacre
February 20 1986 Soviet Union Launches Manned Mir Spacecraft
February 22 1986 People Power Revolution Begins In Philippines
February 25 1986 People Power Revolution (Philippines) Defeats Marcos
February 27 1986 TV Allowed In U.S. Senate Debates
February 28 1986 Prime Minister Of Sweden Assasinated
March 04 1986 Soviet Vega 1 Returns Halley's Comet Images
March 07 1986 Divers Locate Cabin Of Challenger
March 15 1986 33 Dead In Singapore Hotel Collapse
March 21 1986 First African-American Debi Thomas Won World Skating Championship
March 24 1986 Loscoe Gas Explosion Leads To Law Changes
March 27 1986 Car Bomb Explodes At Melbourne Police HQ
March 31 1986 Six County Councils Are Abolished In England
April 01 1986 Communist Attacked Police In Kathmandu
April 02 1986 Alabama Governor Wallace To Retire
April 05 1986 WestBerlin: 3 Killed; Bombing Discotech
April 14 1986 President Reagan Orders Bombing Of Libya
April 14 1986 Heaviest Recorded Hailstones Fall In Bangladesh
April 15 1986 US Bombs Libyan Targets In Response
April 17 1986 Netherlands/Isles Of Scilly War Ends
April 17 1986 Hindawi's Bomb Threat Thwarted On Mid-east Flight
April 20 1986 Pianist Howrowiz Back To Russia To Perform
April 25 1986 King Of Swaziland 82 Years Longest Reign
April 26 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Has A Disaster
April 27 1986 Prypiat Is Evacuated Due To Chernobyl Disaster
April 28 1986 USS Enterprise First To Transit Suez Canal
April 28 1986 Sweden Detects Chernobyl Radiation Causes Soviet Acknowledgement
April 29 1986 Fire At Library Destroys Books
April 29 1986 Satellites See Ruins Of Chernobyl Power Plant
May 02 1986 Chernobyl Evacuated In Wake Of Disaster
May 03 1986 21 People Killed 41 Injured At Columbia Airport
May 07 1986 Canadian Morrow Climbs Seven Summits
May 12 1986 NBC Peacock Debuts For 60th Anniversary
May 15 1986 Racecar Driver Killed Testing New Car
May 16 1986 Seville Statement On Violence Is Adopted
May 19 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act Is Signed
May 25 1986 Hands Across America Takes Place
May 26 1986 European Flag Adopted By European Community
May 27 1986 Dragon Quest Released In Japan
June 04 1986 Rollard Sells American Secrets To Israel
June 22 1986 Argentina Wins 1986 FIFA World Cup
June 30 1986 Supreme Court Rules States Prosecute Homosexuality
July 02 1986 Two Burned Alive For Protesting General Pinochet
July 06 1986 Phinney Wins Cyclist Stage In France
July 09 1986 New Zealand's Homosexual Law Reform Act Legalizes Homosexuality
July 18 1986 Tornado Shown Live On Television In Minnesota
July 23 1986 London: Prince Andrew Marries Fergie
August 06 1986 Sydney, Australia Receives 328 Milimeters Of Rain
August 20 1986 Oklahoma Postal Employee Shoots 14 Co-workers
August 21 1986 1,800 Killed By Volcanic Gas In Cameroon
August 31 1986 82 Dead In Air Collision Over Cerritos
August 31 1986 Nakhimov Sinks In Black Sea After Collision
September 05 1986 Karachi: Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacked
September 06 1986 Abu Nidal Terrorists Attack Synagoge During Shabbat
September 07 1986 Tutu Leads Anglican Church In South Africa
September 07 1986 Attempted Assassination On Chile President Pinochet
September 23 1986 Deshaies Sets Major-league Record
September 30 1986 Mordechai Vanunu Kidnapped By Israeli Mossad
October 03 1986 TASCC Superconducting Cyclotron At The Chalk River
October 05 1986 Israeli Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Revealed
October 09 1986 The Phantom Of The Opera: Majesty's Theatre
October 10 1986 Magnitude 7.5 Quake Strikes San Salvador
October 11 1986 Reagan, Gorbachev In Reykjavik Arms Negotiations
October 12 1986 Elizabeth II Visited China
October 16 1986 Reinhold Messner Record Holding Summits
October 19 1986 Mozambique President Among Dead In Plane Crash
October 21 1986 American, Edward Tracy Abducted In Lebanon
October 24 1986 Nezar Indawi Convicted Of Attempted Bombing Of El Al Flight
October 27 1986 British Government Restructures Financially Leading To ""Big Bang"
October 29 1986 M25 Motorway Completed
November 03 1986 Magazine Reports US Selling Weapons To Iran
November 05 1986 US Navy Ships Visit Qingdao, China
November 06 1986 Sumburgh Helicopter Crash Kills 45
November 13 1986 Micronesia Gains Independence From U.S
November 21 1986 North, Secretary Shred Documents
November 22 1986 Tyson Becomes Youngest Heavyweight Boxing Champ
November 25 1986 Meese Announces Money Diverted To Nicaragua Contras
November 25 1986 King Fahd Causeway Opens In Persian Gulf
November 26 1986 Reagan Announces The Tower Commission Members
December 16 1986 Kolbin Becomes Secratary; Prompts Protests
December 19 1986 Gorbachev Releases Andrei And His Wife
December 23 1986 Voyager Finishes Round-the-world Flight
December 31 1986 97 Killed In Dupont Plaza Fire