Historical Events in 1986 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 722

• Apr 11 A 1921 Canadian 50 cent coin is auctioned in New York for $22,000
• Apr 11 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
• Apr 11 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km

• Apr 11 KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
• Apr 12 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
• Apr 13 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

• Apr 13 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

• Apr 14 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
• Apr 14 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
• Apr 15 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
• Apr 15 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing

• Apr 16 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
• Apr 17 Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
• Apr 17 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
• Apr 18 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
• Apr 18 Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of CIA
• Apr 18 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB

• Apr 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 20 Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925
• Apr 21 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)

• Apr 22 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
• Apr 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 23 Disney World breaks ground for Victorian themed Grand Floridian Beach Resort (now known as Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa)
• Apr 23 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
• Apr 24 Film "Crocodile Dundee" starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski premieres in Australia (highest grossing film of the year in the US)
• Apr 25 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
• Apr 25 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II
• Apr 26 Experimental aircraft Piasecki PA-97 Helistat - a combination of 4 helicopters and a blimp - crashes during first test flight, killing one pilot, at US Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey
• Apr 26 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
• Apr 26 France performs nuclear test
• Apr 26 Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds

• Apr 27 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) hacks into and interrupts HBO
• Apr 27 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident
• Apr 28 Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
• Apr 29 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library

• Apr 30 Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles

• Apr 30 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
• May 1 Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
• May 1 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
• May 2 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
• May 3 Bomb explodes aboard Air Lanka Flight 512 on the ground at Colombo airport, killing 21
• May 3 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
• May 3 NASA launches Goes-G, it fails to achieve orbit

• May 4 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
• May 5 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces Cleveland, Ohio chosen as the site of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
• May 6 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
• May 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 7 Iraq bombs a Tehran oil refiner
• May 7 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
• May 10 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hits #1 on UK pop chart
• May 12 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California

• May 14 Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.

• May 16 Action film "Top Gun" starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, directed by Tony Scott, is released across the US

• May 16 Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election

• 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 17 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hits #1 on the UK pop chart
• May 18 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
• May 18 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
• May 18 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
• May 19 39th Cannes Film Festival: "The Mission" directed by Roland Joffe wins the Palme d'Or
• May 19 Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in South Africa
• May 20 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
• May 21 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
• May 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 23 US & Western Europe veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

• May 24 Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs
• May 24 Stanley Cup Final, Saddledome, Calgary, AL: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4-3 for 4-1 series victory
• May 25 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
• May 25 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
• May 25 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

• May 25 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
• May 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 27 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
• May 27 President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
• May 28 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
• May 28 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
• May 29 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
• May 30 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched

• May 30 France performs nuclear test
• Jun 1 40th Tony Awards: "I'm Not Rappaport" (play) & "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (musical) win

• Jun 2 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
• Jun 2 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
• Jun 3 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
• Jun 4 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

• Jun 6 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
• Jun 6 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

• Jun 7 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1

• Jun 8 Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station in Afghanistan
• Jun 8 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
• Jun 9 Dow Jones industrial average hits record 1,885.90 points

• Jun 9 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
• Jun 10 A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeds Chub Feeney as President of baseball's National League
• Jun 10 In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it
• Jun 11 "Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 12 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency
• Jun 13 City of Berlin, Germany dedicates Léon Jessel Platz, a small town square, in memory of composer killed - at age 70 - by the Gestapo in 1943
• Jun 13 US President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

• Jun 15 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
• Jun 16 1 day general strike in South Africa
• Jun 17 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his replacement

• Jun 18 De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
• Jun 18 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
• Jun 18 US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa

• Jun 21 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
• Jun 21 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
• Jun 21 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals
• Jun 21 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
• Jun 21 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
• Jun 22 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting

• Jun 22 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
• Jun 23 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
• Jun 23 Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House
• Jun 24 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years

• Jun 24 US Senate approves "tax reform"
• Jun 25 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud

• Jun 27 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break

• Jun 27 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

• Jun 27 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
• Jun 27 South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
• Jun 27 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
• Jun 27 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
• Jun 28 Irish population condemns divorce
• Jun 28 Kenneth and Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
• Jun 28 West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa
• Jun 29 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
• Jun 29 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Argentina beats West Germany, 3-2 in front of 114,600
• Jun 29 Moses Mayekiso, former General Secretary of Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and member of South African Communist Party (SACP), detained for a second time, spends months in solitary confinement

• Jun 30 Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4)
• Jul 2 Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens (14-0) suffers his 1st loss (4-2 v Toronto), one win short of AL record for consecutive wins to start season

• Jul 2 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
• Jul 3 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves

• Jul 4 England cricket captain Mike Gatting smashes 183 not out in the drawn 3rd Test vs India at Birmingham
• Jul 5 Inaugural edition of Goodwill Games open in Moscow, USSR

• Jul 6 Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss v Montreal
• Jul 6 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in the Philippines
• Jul 6 Premier Nakasone's Liberal Democratic Party wins Japan's election

• Jul 7 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

• Jul 7 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices

• Jul 7 Supreme Court strikes down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
• Jul 8 Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
• Jul 8 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance

• Jul 9 Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes

• Jul 9 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
• Jul 9 The New Zealand parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Bill legalising consensual sex between men aged 16 and older

• Jul 11 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
• Jul 11 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
• Jul 12 Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
• Jul 13 Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa
• Jul 14 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
• Jul 14 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
• Jul 14 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission

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