1986 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1986?
- January 1, 1986 – Spain and Portugal are admitted into the European Community.
- January 20, 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- January 24, 1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81500 km of Uranus.
- 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 16, 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
- February 28, 1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
- March 7, 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- April 5, 1986 – Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
- 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.
- May 27, 1986 – the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.
- July 9, 1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
- August 6, 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
- August 20, 1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
- 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 5, 1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
- October 27, 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 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 31, 1986 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
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