1986 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1986?
- January 1, 1986 – Spain and Portugal are admitted into the European Community.
- January 15, 1986 – The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
- January 25, 1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- March 24, 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- April 5, 1986 – Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
- April 25, 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- May 16, 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
- June 4, 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
- July 9, 1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
- August 20, 1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
- September 6, 1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal’s organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
- September 7, 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
- October 9, 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- October 16, 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
- October 21, 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
- October 24, 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
- November 25, 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
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