Historical Events
- Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
Famous Birthdays
- Olesya Rulin, American actress
Famous Deaths
- Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
- John Bagot Glubb, British commandant and writer (A soldier with the Arabs), dies at 88
What Happened in 1986
USS Challenger Explodes
The Space Shuttle Challenger moments after it exploded above Cape Canveral on January 28, 1986
January 28, 1986Pripyat: 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
