Historical Events in 1986

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• 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 1 52nd Sugar Bowl: #8 Tennessee beats #2 Miami, 35-7
• 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 Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao
• Jan 1 International Peace Year begins
• Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00
• 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 Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community
• Jan 2 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

• 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 9 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
• Jan 9 NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• Jan 10 NASA's STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
• Jan 10 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
• Jan 11 Douglas Wilder of Virginia, 1st African American Lieutenant Governor since reconstruction sworn in
• Jan 12 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
• Jan 12 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: New England Patriots beat Miami Dolphins, 31-14
• Jan 12 Chicago Blackhawk centre Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
• Jan 12 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat Los Angeles Rams, 24-0
• 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 13 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
• Jan 13 South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
• 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 16 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
• Jan 16 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
• Jan 17 2nd Sundance Film Festival: "Smooth Talk" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• Jan 17 Tim Witherspoon beats defending champion Tony Tubbs by majority decision in 15 rounds at The Omni, Atlanta for WBA heavyweight boxing title
• Jan 18 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth

• 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 Spain recognizes Israel

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

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

• Jan 24 Leon Brittan, Trade and Industry Secretary under Thatcher is 2nd cabinet minister to resign after 'Westland affair'
• Jan 24 NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
• Jan 24 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president

• Jan 25 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda
• Jan 26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion
• Jan 26 Super Bowl XX, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10; MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
• Jan 26 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquers Kampala, Uganda

• Jan 28 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 performances
• Jan 28 Angolan revolutionary and leader of UNITA, 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
• 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 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 OPEC fails to agree upon a petroleum production agreement after a 2 day meeting in Vienna

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

• Feb 4 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner

• Feb 7 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
• 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 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

• 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 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 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 National Assembly of the Philippines proclaims Ferdinand Marcos President for six more years after rigged elections against Corazon Aquino, supercharging the EDSA people power revolution [1]
• Feb 16 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances

• Feb 16 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time
• Feb 16 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
• Feb 16 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)

• 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 will 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 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 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 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
• Feb 24 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

• Feb 25 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines; dictator Ferdinand Marcos flees the country
• Feb 25 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula
• Feb 25 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotels
• 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

• 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 5 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national colour newspaper); it folded in 1995
• Mar 6 After losing all appeals, American rock singer David Crosby begins serving 5 year sentence for drug and weapons convictions in Texas state prison
• Mar 6 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London
• Mar 6 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
• Mar 7 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends

• Mar 8 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
• Mar 8 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
• Mar 8 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69
• Mar 8 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km

• Mar 9 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
• Mar 9 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67

• Mar 9 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
• Mar 9 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km

• Mar 11 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
• Mar 11 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• Mar 11 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
• Mar 11 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
• Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
• Mar 12 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

• Mar 13 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
• Mar 13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
• Mar 14 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
• Mar 15 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
• Mar 15 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
• Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
• Mar 18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
• Mar 18 US Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
• Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)

• Mar 20 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
• Mar 21 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• Mar 21 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
• Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
• Mar 22 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
• Mar 22 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
• Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
• Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
• Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

• Mar 22 Kania skates ladies' world record 1500m (1:59.30)
• Mar 22 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
• Mar 23 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Rambo: First Blood Part II" wins

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