Historical Events in 1986 (Part 2)

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• Mar 24 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
• Mar 24 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
• Mar 24 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
• Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
• Mar 25 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
• Mar 25 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
• Mar 26 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
• Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking
• Mar 28 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India
• Mar 28 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
• Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
• Mar 30 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
• Mar 30 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)


• Mar 30 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
• Mar 31 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
• Mar 31 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
• Mar 31 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
• Mar 31 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
• Apr 1 Ranji Trophy Men's Cricket, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141; Manoj Prabhakar 113, Kirti Azad 107, Mohinder Amarnath 194, Ajay Sharma 110
• Apr 1 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
• Apr 1 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
• Apr 2 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
• Apr 2 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
• Apr 2 NCAA Basketball Rules Committee votes to adopt the 3-point shot beginning the 1986-87 season; sets college distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared to 21 feet in the NBA

• Apr 3 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of "A Current Affair") is raped
• Apr 3 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000

• Apr 5 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
• Apr 5 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
• Apr 5 140th Grand National: Richard Dunwoody aboard 9-year-old 15/2 second favourite West Tip wins by 2 lengths from Young Driver

• Apr 6 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
• Apr 6 CBS' fact based "Nobody's Child", story of Marie Balter

• Apr 9 "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
• Apr 10 "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances

• Apr 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 11 A 1921 Canadian 50 cent coin is auctioned in New York for $22,000
• Apr 11 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
• Apr 11 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
• Apr 11 KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
• Apr 12 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines

• Apr 13 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

• Apr 13 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

• Apr 14 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
• Apr 14 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
• Apr 15 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
• Apr 15 Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
• Apr 15 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.

• Apr 16 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
• Apr 17 Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
• Apr 17 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
• Apr 18 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
• Apr 18 Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of CIA
• Apr 18 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB

• Apr 20 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances

• Apr 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 20 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
• Apr 21 90th Boston Marathon: Rob de Castella first Australian winner in 2:07:51; Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway claims women's title in 2:24:55
• Apr 21 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)

• Apr 22 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
• Apr 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 23 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
• Apr 23 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
• Apr 25 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
• Apr 25 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
• Apr 26 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
• Apr 26 France performs nuclear test
• Apr 26 Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds

• Apr 27 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
• Apr 27 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
• Apr 27 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident
• Apr 28 Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
• Apr 29 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library

• Apr 29 NFL Draft: Auburn running back Bo Jackson first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Apr 30 Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
• Apr 30 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
• Apr 30 Bill Elliott sets all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway; 212.809 mph (342.483 km/h; 44.998 seconds)
• May 1 Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
• 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 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 12 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California

• 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 15 Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years

• 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 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 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 23 US & Western Europe veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

• May 24 Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs
• May 24 Stanley Cup Final, Saddledome, Calgary, AL: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4-3 for 4-1 series victory
• 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 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
• May 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 27 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
• May 27 President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
• May 28 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados


• May 28 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
• May 29 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
• May 30 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
• May 30 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
• May 30 France performs nuclear test

• Jun 1 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Pat Bradley birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan
• Jun 1 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win

• Jun 2 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
• Jun 2 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
• Jun 3 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
• Jun 4 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

• Jun 6 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
• Jun 6 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

• Jun 7 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8

• Jun 7 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1

• Jun 8 "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
• Jun 8 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2

• Jun 8 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
• Jun 8 Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station in Afghanistan

• Jun 9 Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points


• Jun 9 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
• Jun 10 A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeds Chub Feeney as President of baseball's National League
• Jun 10 In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it
• Jun 11 "Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 11 Amnesty International megaconcert
• Jun 12 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency
• Jun 13 US President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
• Jun 13 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play

• Jun 15 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
• Jun 16 1 day general strike in South Africa
• Jun 17 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his replacement
• Jun 18 De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
• Jun 18 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
• Jun 18 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
• Jun 18 Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
• Jun 18 US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
• Jun 20 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon

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