Historical Events in February 1986

Feb 2 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

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 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: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
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 wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
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 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's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix

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

Feb 21 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks

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