1986 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1986?
- January 12, 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist.
- January 20, 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 24, 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- March 31, 1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- April 17, 1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
- April 20, 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 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.
- May 26, 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
- May 27, 1986 – the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- August 31, 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Ship sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
- September 5, 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- September 7, 1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
- October 3, 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
- October 9, 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- October 11, 1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
- October 19, 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
- November 22, 1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
- November 25, 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
- 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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