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1986 - Definition and Overview |
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1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
March-April
- 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 27 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
- March 31 - A fire devestates Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England.
- April 3 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, IBM's first laptop computer
- April 5 - 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 14 - 2.2 lb (1kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
- April 17 - British journalist John McCarthy kidnapped in Beirut (released in August 1991) - three others are found dead, Revolutionary Cells claims responsibility in retaliation for the US bombing of Libya
- 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, many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus rendered uninhabitable.
- April 27 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
May-August
September
October
November
December
Unknown date
Year in topic
Births
- January 24 - Mischa Barton, English actress
- February 1 - Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss soccer player
- February 19 - Maria Mena, Norwegian pop star
- February 21 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
- March 1 - Jonathan Spector, soccer player
- March 9 - Brittany Snow, actress
- March 14 - Jamie Bell, actor
- April 3 - Amanda Bynes, teen actress and show host
- June 13 - The Olsen twins, actresses and entrepreneurs
- June 24 - Solange Knowles, actress, singer
- July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, actress
- July 4 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
- October 25 - Conor Smith, Irish actor
- October 31 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress
- November 5 - BoA, Korean singer
- November 3 - Jasmine Trias, American Idol singer
- November 25 - Amber Hagerman, kidnapping, murder victim (d. 1996)
Deaths
January-April
- January 1 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
- January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
- January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
- January 24 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer (b. 1921)
- January 24 - Vincente Minnelli, director (b. 1903)
- 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 (b. 1920)
- February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star (b. 1929)
- February 28 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister (b. 1927)
- March 6 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
- March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1907)
- March 30 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
- April 3 - Richard Manuel, musician ("The Band") (b. 1943)
- April 3 - Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
- April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (b. 1908)
- April 26 - Broderick Crawford, actor (b. 1911)
- April 26 - Dechko Uzunov, painter (b. 1899)
May-October
- May 3 - Robert Alda, actor (b. 1914)
- May 9 - Tenzing Norgay, mountaineer (b. 1914)
- May 12 - Elisabeth Bergner, actress (b. 1897)
- May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer (b. 1915)
- May 23 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
- May 25 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
- June 13 - Benny Goodman, jazz musician (b. 1909)
- June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
- July 4 - Oscar Zariski, mathematician (b. 1899)
- July 8 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (b. 1900)
- July 8 - Skeeter Webb, Professional Baseball Player (b. 1909)
- July 14 - Raymond Loewy, industrial designer (b. 1893), designed the PRR GG1 and Studebaker Avanti.
- August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (b. 1923)
- August 31 - Urho Kekkonen, president of Finland 1956-1981 (b. 1900)
- August 31 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
- September 4 - Hank Greenberg, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1911)
- September 27 - Cliff Burton, Metallica bassist (b. 1962)
- October 5 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
- October 16 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
- October 25 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
- October 26 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter (b. 1897)
November-December
- Robert Jungk, Rosalie Bertell / Alice Stewart, Ladakh Ecological Development Group and Evaristo Nugkuag / AIDESEP
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Example Usage of 1986 |
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curlydena: @Fergal we'd have probably loved it back in 1986 too ;-) |
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sharongooner: Well. Im not gonna dwelll on it. Did the Irish come out in sympathy for England in 1986? Not bloody likely, they were too busy laughing! |
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fizzy_reid: @lubo1986 were you born in 1986?! |
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