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1986
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years: 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 - 1986 - 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
Events
- January 1 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
- January 1 - Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
- January 9 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
- January 12 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
- January 20 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
- January 20 - The first federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
- January 24 - Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
- January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- February 7 - 28 years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
- February 11 - Human Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky is released by USSR, leaves the country.
- 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 25 - President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule.
- February 26 - After exiled President Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines, Corazon Aquino is inaugurated president.
- 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, his wife the only witness.
- March 2 - Corazon Aquino is inaugurated as President of the Philippines.
- 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 seven astronauts were still inside.
- March 31- a fire devestates Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England.
- April 3 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer.
- April 6 - In the terroristic La Belle discotheque bombing the West-Berlin discotheque, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people. Libya is held responsible.
- April 26 - In the Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes creating the worlds worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident and many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
- April 27 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
- May 2 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens.
- May 25 - "Hands Across America"
- May 26 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
- July 5 - The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing.
- July 23 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- August - Apple Lisa discontinued by Apple.
- August 20 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
- August 21 - The Lake Nyos Tragedy occurs, killing nearly 2000 people.
- September 1 - The Soviet sea-liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Petr Vasev and sinks almost immediately, killing 448.
- September 5 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- September 6 - In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Sabbath services.
- September 7 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
- October 9 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
- October 10 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- October 11 - Cold War: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe (the talks break down in failure).
- October 28 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
- November 11 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.
- December 31 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
- November 3 - Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
- November 21 - Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contras rebels in Nicaragua.
- November 25 - Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- November 26 - Iran-Contra scandal: US President Ronald Reagan announces that as of December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will be serving as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission).
- Commonly considered the start date of the golden age of old school rap
Year in topic
Births
Deaths
- January 14 - Donna Reed, actress
- January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology
- January 24 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer
- January 24 - Vincente Minnelli, director
- January 27 - Lilli Palmer, actress
- January 28 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe.
- February 11 - Frank Herbert, science fiction author.
- February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
- February 28 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister
- March 6 - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
- March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
- March 30 - James Cagney, actor
- April 3 - Richard Manuel, musician ("The Band")
- April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
- April 26 - Broderick Crawford, actor
- May 9 - Tenzing Norgay, mountaineer
- May 12 - Elisabeth Bergner, actress
- May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer
- May 23 - Sterling Hayden
- May 25 - Chester Bowles, politician
- June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
- August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- August 31 - Henry Moore, sculptor
- September 27 - Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist
- October 26 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter
- November 22 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician
- December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
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