This Year in History 1986 E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This Year in History 1986 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths, Weddings, cost of living, Music and Sport, 1986 Fun Facts etc. Everything 1986. UK and USA Facts, Great for Birthday presents or Anniversaries, Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year.

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Table of contents

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1986

Who Was Born This Year in 1986

Who Died This Year in 1986

Film and TV 1986

Sport of 1986

1986 Music

Cost of Living in 1986

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1986 Fun Facts

1986 Calendar

Look out for More Books in the Series

This Year in History

1986

By

Kerry Butters

Table of Contents

Major News Events of 1986

Who Was Born This Year in 1986

Who Died This Year in 1986

Film and TV 1986

Sport of 1986

1986 Music

Cost of Living in 1986

Famous Weddings and Divorces

1986 Fun Facts

1986 Calendar

Major News Events of 1986

January

Jan 1 International Peace Year begins

Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00

Jan 1 Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community

Jan 1 South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact

Jan 1 72nd Rose Bowl: #13 UCLA beats #4 Iowa, 45-28; Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game.

Jan 1 52nd Sugar Bowl: #8 Tennessee beats #2 Miami, 35-7

Jan 1 15th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Michigan beats #7 Nebraska, 27-23

Jan 1 52nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #1 Penn State, 25-10

Jan 2 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Jan 2 NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal

Jan 4 David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide

Jan 4 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots

Jan 6 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after the 'Westland affair'

Jan 6 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg

Jan 6 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

Jan 6 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem

Jan 7 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes

Jan 7 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems

Jan 7 US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya

Jan 8 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year

Jan 9 NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

Jan 9 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.

Jan 10 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US

Jan 10 NASA's STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center

Jan 10 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34,000th career point during 124-102 win over Indiana Pacers; only NBA player to reach the milestone at that time; remains all-time leader (38,387)

Jan 11 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in - Douglas Wilder of Virginia

Jan 12 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched

Jan 12 Chicago Blackhawk centre Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period

Jan 12 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: New England Patriots beat Miami Dolphins, 31-14

Jan 12 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat Los Angeles Rams, 24-0

Jan 13 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams

Jan 13 South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents

Jan 13 ABC's TV premiere of "The Right of The People", whose writer and director is said to have been inspired by the 14 December 1980 massacre at Bob's Big Boy in Los Angeles

Jan 14 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

Jan 14 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the second freely elected President of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954

Jan 15 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)

Jan 15 Montreal's rookie goaltender Patrick Roy records his first of 66 career NHL shutouts, in the Canadiens' 4-0 win against the Winnipeg Jets at the Forum

Jan 16 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam

Jan 16 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Jan 17 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 17 2nd Sundance Film Festival: "Smooth Talk" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

Jan 18 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth

Jan 18 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For" hits #1

Jan 18 NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)

Jan 19 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17 million

Jan 19 Israeli Premier Shimon Peres visits Netherlands

Jan 19 Spain recognizes Israel

Jan 20 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr

Jan 20 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)

Jan 20 Military coup in Lesotho under major general Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan

Jan 21 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana

Jan 21 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA

Jan 21 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

Jan 21 Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl defeats Boris Becker of Germany 6-2, 7-6, 6-3 to claim the season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title for a third time at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Jan 22 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North

Jan 23 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances

Jan 23 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB

Jan 23 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, Buddy Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)

Jan 24 43rd Golden Globes: "Out of Africa", Jon Voight, & Whoopi Goldberg win

Jan 24 NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point

Jan 24 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president

Jan 24 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons

Jan 24 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'

Jan 25 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda

Jan 25 Edmonton's Paul Coffey sets NHL record for defensemen with a point in his 28th consecutive game, as the Oilers beat the visiting LA Kings, 5-2

Jan 26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion

Jan 26 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquers Kampala, Uganda

Jan 26 Super Bowl XX, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10; MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE

Jan 27 13th American Music Awards: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle

Jan 28 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 performances

Jan 28 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space Jan 28 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C.

Jan 29 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Jan 29 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda

Jan 31 Mary Lund of Minneapolis, 1st female recipient of an artificial heart receives a donor heart

February

Feb 1 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH

Feb 2 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances

Feb 2 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

Feb 2 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 28-24; MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB

Feb 2 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica

Feb 3 US President Ronald Reagan announces formation of commission of enquiry on Challenger Accident

Feb 3 OPEC fails to agree upon a petroleum production agreement after a 2 day meeting in Vienna

Feb 3 The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta

Feb 4 38th NHL All-Star Game, Hartford Civic Centre: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 4-3 (OT); MVP: Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Oilers, G

Feb 4 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner

Feb 5 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"

Feb 6 NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals

Feb 7 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

Feb 7 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France: Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

Feb 7 Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos

Feb 8 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

Feb 8 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

Feb 8 1984 Summer Olympics LAPD bomb squad chief Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit are killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs

Feb 8 The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong

Feb 9 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G

Feb 9 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)

Feb 9 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen

Feb 9 Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown

Feb 9 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt

Feb 9 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)

Feb 10 "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released posthumously

Feb 11 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country

Feb 11 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (418)

Feb 11 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq

Feb 12 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana

Feb 14 36th Berlin International Film Festival: "Stammheim" wins the Golden Bear

Feb 15 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit

Feb 15 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged presidential election in the Philippines

Feb 15 Philipines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos

Feb 16 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances

Feb 16 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad

Feb 16 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time

Feb 16 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)

Feb 16 Mário Soares from the Socialist Party is elected the 1st civilian President of Portugal

Feb 16 28th Daytona 500: Geoff Bodine wins on fuel mileage after Dale Earnhardt forced to pit for gas with 3 laps to go, then blows engine leaving the pits

Feb 17 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles

Feb 17 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)

Feb 17 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs

Feb 17 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad

Feb 18 San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBA's 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns

Feb 18 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985

Feb 19 King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with PLO

Feb 19 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later

Feb 19 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit

Feb 20 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration

Feb 20 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York

Feb 21 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School

Feb 22 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines

Feb 23 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)

Feb 23 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)

Feb 24 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

Feb 24 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby

Feb 25 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins

Feb 25 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country

Feb 25 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula

Feb 25 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

Feb 26 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)

Feb 26 People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

Feb 27 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis

Feb 28 European Economic Community signs "Special Act" for Europe free trade

Feb 28 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

March

Mar 1 Quebec's Peter Stastny becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons, with an assist in a 8-4 Nordiques' loss to the visiting Buffalo Sabres

Mar 2 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita

Mar 2 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US

Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history

Mar 2 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season