Historical Events in 1986 (Part 4)

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• Sep 12 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
• Sep 12 Limited U.S. premiere of film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play "'Night, Mother"

• Sep 13 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
• Sep 13 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
• Sep 13 11th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Decline of the American Empire" directed by Denys Arcand wins the People's Choice Award
• Sep 14 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
• Sep 14 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
• Sep 14 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
• Sep 14 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
• Sep 14 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
• Sep 14 CBS premiere of true life "The Last Days of Patton"
• Sep 15 1st broadcast of legal drama "L.A. Law" created by Steven Bochco, with ensemble cast including Corbin Bersen, Jill Eikenberry and Harry Hamlin on NBC
• Sep 15 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
• Sep 16 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
• Sep 17 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed


• Sep 17 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
• Sep 17 Mets clinch NL East Championship
• Sep 17 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
• Sep 18 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras

• Sep 19 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
• Sep 19 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
• Sep 19 US Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
• Sep 20 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State

• Sep 21 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
• Sep 21 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
• Sep 21 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
• Sep 21 Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
• Sep 22 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
• Sep 22 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
• Sep 22 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
• Sep 23 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
• Sep 23 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
• Sep 25 Antonin Scalia appointed to US Supreme Court
• Sep 25 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
• Sep 26 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
• Sep 26 RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
• Sep 26 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
• Sep 26 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)


• Sep 27 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
• Sep 27 "Give Me Wings" single released by Michael Johnson (Billboard Song of the Year 1987)
• Sep 28 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
• Sep 28 Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
• Sep 28 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
• Sep 29 "Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA
• Sep 29 "Designing Women" TV comedy, debuts on CBS

• Sep 29 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• Sep 29 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
• Sep 29 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
• Sep 29 NBC true life drama "Adam: His Song Continues" premieres, sequel to "Adam" (1983)
• Sep 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 30 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
• Sep 30 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy
• Oct 1 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
• Oct 1 New Zealand's Labour Government introduces a Goods and Services Tax (GST), adding 10% to the cost of most goods and services

• Oct 2 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season
• Oct 2 New York Mets' Dwight Gooden becomes first pitcher to collect 200 strikeouts in each of his first 3 seasons when he records 7 in 8-2 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
• Oct 2 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
• Oct 3 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
• Oct 3 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
• Oct 3 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.

• Oct 4 Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
• Oct 4 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
• Oct 5 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
• Oct 5 Rams running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as LA defeats Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 26-20 at Anaheim Stadium
• Oct 6 Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
• Oct 7 First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published

• Oct 8 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
• Oct 8 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs

• Oct 9 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

• Oct 10 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador

• Oct 12 California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox

• Oct 13 20th Country Music Association Award: Reba McEntire wins
• Oct 13 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
• Oct 13 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
• Oct 14 IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule

• Oct 14 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
• Oct 15 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
• Oct 15 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets beat Houston Astros, 4 games to 2
• Oct 15 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat California Angels, 4 games to 3
• Oct 16 "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances
• Oct 16 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb

• Oct 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 16 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet, becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Oct 17 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

• Oct 19 "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 performances
• Oct 19 "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances
• Oct 19 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket (v India, Bombay)
• Oct 19 USSR expels five US diplomats
• Oct 20 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
• Oct 21 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
• Oct 21 Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code" premieres in London
• Oct 21 IBM re-forms in South Africa
• Oct 21 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
• Oct 21 US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
• Oct 22 "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances

• Oct 24 Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement
• Oct 24 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
• Oct 25 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
• Oct 25 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
• Oct 25 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
• Oct 26 "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
• Oct 26 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his World Formula 1 Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell
• Oct 27 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series

• Oct 27 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
• Oct 28 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
• Oct 28 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
• Oct 28 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
• Oct 29 Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
• Oct 29 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
• Oct 29 West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
• Oct 30 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modifications are made
• Nov 1 Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
• Nov 1 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; winners: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile
• Nov 2 New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins her 8th NYC event in 2:28:06; Gianni Poli of Italy, men's champion in 2:11:06
• Nov 2 Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
• Nov 2 German tennis star Boris Becker wins his third tournament in 3 weeks in different continents; beats Sergio Casal of Spain 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 in the final of the Paris Open after victories in Japan and Australia
• Nov 3 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
• Nov 3 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique

• Nov 3 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
• Nov 3 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
• Nov 6 Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
• Nov 6 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
• Nov 6 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
• Nov 6 "Just Like the First Time" 2nd studio album by Freddie Jackson is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1987)
• Nov 8 "Song & Dance" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
• Nov 9 Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
• Nov 9 Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
• Nov 10 Bangladeshi Constitution restored
• Nov 11 Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
• Nov 11 Suriname government proclaims gold purification
• Nov 12 France performs nuclear test

• Nov 13 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
• Nov 13 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
• Nov 13 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
• Nov 14 Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
• Nov 14 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
• Nov 14 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky

• Nov 16 36th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
• Nov 17 "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
• Nov 18 Roger Clemens wins AL MVP

• Nov 19 Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances" premieres in NYC
• Nov 20 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
• Nov 20 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS
• Nov 21 Central African Republic adopts constitution
• Nov 21 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

• Nov 22 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
• Nov 23 Second WTA Tour Championship of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 5th straight and 8th overall title with 7–6, 6–3, 6–2 win over Steffi Graf in NYC
• Nov 24 "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 48 performances
• Nov 24 Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 24 Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
• Nov 25 A's Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 25 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
• Nov 25 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office
• Nov 28 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
• Nov 28 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
• Nov 28 OPEC reaches oil production accord
• Nov 29 51st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 21-17 in Birmingham
• Nov 30 "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 performances
• Nov 30 CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15; Al Bruno's 2nd Grey Cup win, 1st as head coach, also as a player with 1952 Toronto Argonauts

• Dec 1 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
• Dec 1 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
• Dec 2 Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
• Dec 3 Chasing the West Indies 248/5, Sri Lanka is sensationally dismissed for just 55 in cricket's Champions Trophy in Sharjah; Windies pace bowler Courtney Walsh takes 5 for 1 in 4.3 overs
• Dec 3 Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
• Dec 4 US launches its Fleet Satellite Communications System (Fltsatcom-7)

• Dec 6 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
• Dec 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Dec 7 Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

• Dec 7 NBC premiere of miniseries "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (Part 1)
• Dec 8 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
• Dec 8 NBC premiere of miniseries "Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna" (Part 2)
• Dec 10 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
• Dec 10 France performs nuclear test

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