Historical Events in 1986

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• Jan 1 Aruba gains independence from neighboring island Curacao
• Jan 1 International Peace Year begins
• Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00
• Jan 1 South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact
• Jan 1 Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community

• Jan 6 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after the 'Westland affair'
• Jan 6 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
• Jan 6 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
• Jan 6 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
• Jan 7 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
• Jan 7 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems

• Jan 9 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
• Jan 9 NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• Jan 10 NASA's STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
• Jan 10 Pacific island nation of Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
• Jan 11 Douglas Wilder of Virginia, 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in
• Jan 12 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
• Jan 13 ABC's TV premiere of "The Right of The People", whose writer and director is said to have been inspired by the 14 December 1980 massacre at Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles
• Jan 13 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
• Jan 13 South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
• Jan 14 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
• Jan 14 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the second freely elected President of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
• Jan 15 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)

• Jan 16 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
• Jan 16 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
• Jan 17 Tim Witherspoon beats defending champion Tony Tubbs by majority decision in 15 rounds at The Omni, Atlanta for WBA heavyweight boxing title
• Jan 18 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth

• Jan 18 NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
• Jan 19 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17 million

• Jan 19 Spain recognizes Israel

• Jan 20 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)
• Jan 20 Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
• Jan 21 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana
• Jan 21 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

• Jan 22 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
• Jan 23 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB

• Jan 24 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'
• Jan 24 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
• Jan 24 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president

• Jan 25 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda
• Jan 26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion
• Jan 26 Super Bowl XX, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10; MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
• Jan 26 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquers Kampala, Uganda
• Jan 28 Angolan revolutionary and leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C.

• Jan 29 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda
• Jan 31 Mary Lund of Minneapolis, 1st female recipient of an artificial heart receives a donor heart
• Feb 1 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH

• Feb 2 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
• Feb 3 OPEC fails to agree upon a petroleum production agreement after a 2 day meeting in Vienna

• Feb 3 US President Ronald Reagan announces formation of commission of enquiry on Challenger Accident
• Feb 4 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner

• Feb 8 1984 Summer Olympics LAPD bomb squad chief Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit are killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs
• Feb 8 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

• Feb 9 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
• Feb 9 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
• Feb 9 Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown
• Feb 9 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
• Feb 9 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)

• Feb 11 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
• Feb 11 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
• Feb 15 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
• Feb 15 National Assembly of the Philippines proclaims Ferdinand Marcos President for six more years after rigged elections against Corazon Aquino, supercharging the EDSA people power revolution [1]

• Feb 16 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time
• Feb 16 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
• Feb 16 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)

• Feb 17 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
• Feb 17 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
• Feb 17 Johnson & Johnson announces it will no longer sell capsule drugs
• Feb 17 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad

• Feb 18 San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBA's 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns
• Feb 19 King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with PLO
• Feb 19 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
• Feb 19 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

• Feb 21 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
• Feb 22 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines

• Feb 23 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
• Feb 24 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

• Feb 25 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines; dictator Ferdinand Marcos flees the country
• Feb 25 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula
• Feb 25 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotels
• Feb 26 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
• Feb 26 People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
• Feb 27 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis
• Feb 28 European Economic Community signs "Special Act" for Europe free trade
• Feb 28 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

• Mar 2 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita

• Mar 2 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
• Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history

• Mar 5 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national colour newspaper); it folded in 1995
• Mar 6 After losing all appeals, American rock singer David Crosby begins serving 5 year sentence for drug and weapons convictions in Texas state prison
• Mar 6 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London
• Mar 6 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
• Mar 7 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends

• Mar 8 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
• Mar 8 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km

• Mar 9 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000

• Mar 9 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
• Mar 9 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km

• Mar 11 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC
• Mar 11 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
• Mar 11 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
• Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
• Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
• Mar 13 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
• Mar 13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
• Mar 14 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
• Mar 15 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
• Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
• Mar 18 US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
• Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)

• Mar 20 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
• Mar 21 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
• Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
• Mar 22 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
• Mar 22 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
• Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
• Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
• Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

• Mar 22 Kania skates ladies' world record 1500m (1:59.30)
• Mar 23 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC

• Mar 24 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
• Mar 24 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
• Mar 24 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra

• Mar 25 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes

• Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
• Mar 28 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India
• Mar 28 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
• Mar 31 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
• Mar 31 Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes, killing 167
• Mar 31 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
• Apr 1 Ranji Trophy Men's Cricket, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141; Manoj Prabhakar 113, Kirti Azad 107, Mohinder Amarnath 194, Ajay Sharma 110
• Apr 1 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
• Apr 1 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
• Apr 2 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
• Apr 2 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
• Apr 2 NCAA Basketball Rules Committee votes to adopt the 3-point shot beginning the 1986-87 season; sets college distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared to 21 feet in the NBA

• Apr 2 Paul Coffey of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 47th and 48th goals of the season in an 8-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks to break Bobby Orr's NHL record for most goals by a defenseman
• Apr 3 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of "A Current Affair") is raped
• Apr 3 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
• Apr 4 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
• Apr 5 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
• Apr 5 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
• Apr 6 CBS' fact based "Nobody's Child", story of Marie Balter

• Apr 6 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs

• Apr 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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