1986 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1986?
- January 11, 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
- January 24, 1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81500 km of Uranus.
- January 25, 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- January 28, 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 7, 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
- February 16, 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
- February 19, 1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
- February 28, 1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
- April 28, 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
- April 29, 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
- May 3, 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
- June 4, 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- June 9, 1986 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- July 23, 1986 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- October 12, 1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People’s Republic of China
- October 29, 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- November 21, 1986 – 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 Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- December 16, 1986 – Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s tenure
- December 26, 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
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