Historical Events in May 1986

May 1 Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
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May 1 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
May 2 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
May 3 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
May 3 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
May 3 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
May 3 NASA launches Goes-G, it fails to achieve orbit
May 3 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
May 3 31st Eurovision Song Contest: Sandra Kim for Belgium wins singing "J'aime la vie" in Bergen
May 4 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
May 5 Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
May 6 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
May 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
May 7 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
May 7 Iraq bombs a Tehran oil refiner
May 7 30th European Cup: Steaua Bucuresti beats Barcelona (0-0, 2-0 on penalties) at Seville
May 9 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
May 10 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hits #1 on UK pop chart
May 11 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

May 12 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

May 12 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California

May 14 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary

May 14 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place

May 14 Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
May 14 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Calgary Flames beat St. Louis Blues, 4 games to 3

May 16 "Top Gun", directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise premieres

May 16 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from the dead on TV soap "Dallas"
May 16 Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
May 16 South African President PW Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
May 16 The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
May 17 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hits #1 on the UK pop chart
May 17 111th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
May 18 "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 performances
May 18 Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
May 18 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
May 18 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
May 18 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
May 19 Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in South Africa
May 19 39th Cannes Film Festival: "The Mission" directed by Roland Joffe wins the Palme d'Or
May 20 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
May 20 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
May 21 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
May 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

May 22 Cher calls David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC

May 24 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel

May 24 Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs
May 24 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
May 25 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
May 25 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
May 25 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

May 25 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit

May 30 Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates