Historical Events
- Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
Famous Birthdays
Christina Perri
Christina Perri, American singer-songwriter (So You Think You Can Dance), born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania
Christina Perri
- Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
Famous Deaths
- Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
- Jaap [Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus] Burger, Dutch politician and chairman (PvdA), dies at 81
- Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
What Happened in 1986
Pripyat: Nuclear Wasteland
'I Love You Pripyat, Forgive Me!' scrawled on the walls of a Pripyat clinic during its hasty evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster
April 26, 1986How Paula Yates Discovered Her Real Father
Controversial television presenter Paula Yates married pop star Bob Geldof on this day. Fate decided she would not remain happy ever after
August 31, 1986Reagan and Gorbachev
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet at the Reykjavik Summit in Iceland
October 11, 1986'Splendid Achievement' becomes the 'Road To Hell'
London's orbital road, the M25 was hailed as a splendid achievement by PM Margaret Thatcher when she opened it on this day. But it soon developed another nickname...
October 29, 1986
