This Year in History 1986: What Were You Doing in 1986?

By Kerry Butters

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing
• Release date: Jul 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834153543

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MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1986

January

January 1 International Peace Year begins

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

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

January 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

January 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.

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

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

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

January 2 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

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

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

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

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

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

January 6 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

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

January 7 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes

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

January 7 US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya

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

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

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

January 10 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US

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

January 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)

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

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

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

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

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

January 13 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams

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

January 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

January 14 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

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

January 15 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)

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

January 16 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam

January 16 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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

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

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

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

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

January 19 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $17 million

January 19 Israeli Premier Shimon Peres visits Netherlands

January 19 Spain recognizes Israel

January 20 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr

January 20 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Channel)

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

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

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

January 21 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

January 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

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

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

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

January 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 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

January 26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion

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

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

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

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

January 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

January 28 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C.

January 29 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

January 29 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda

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

February

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

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

February 2 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

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

February 2 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica

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

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

February 3 The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta

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

February 4 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner

February 5 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on Nightline

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

February 7 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

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

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

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

February 8 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

February 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

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

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

February 9 Halley's Comet