February 1986 in History

Events in History

Feb 2 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

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 The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta

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

Feb 7 Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos

Feb 7 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France: Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

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 9 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
Feb 9 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
Feb 9 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
Feb 11 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
Feb 11 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
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 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
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 25 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines; dictator Ferdinand Marcos flees the country

Feb 6 Tony Johnson Jr., American mixed martial artist (KOTC heavyweight champion 2010), born in Killeen, Texas
Feb 7 Michael Orozco, American footballer
Feb 9 Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
Feb 11 Gabriel Boric, Chilean activist and politician (Chile's youngest President 2022-), born in Punta Arenas, Chile
Feb 21 Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, born in Brussels, Belgium

Feb 1 Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, diplomat and leader of the disarmament movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1982), dies at 84
Feb 6 Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th Salvation Army General, dies at 86
Feb 6 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NYC), dies of stomach cancer at 73
Feb 7 Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
Feb 11 Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
Feb 11 Frank Herbert, American sci-fi author (Dune series), dies of a massive pulmonary embolism after surgery for pancreatic cancer at 65
Feb 17 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90
Feb 19 James Eastland, American politician (Sen-D-Miss 1943-78), dies at 81
Feb 20 Koss Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58
Feb 21 Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer ("...And Ladies of the Club"), dies at 90
Feb 21 Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but now disputed (b. 1865)