July 1986 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 2 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile

Jul 2 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
Jul 3 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves

Statue of Liberty

Jul 3 US President Reagan presides over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty

Event of Interest

Jul 5 Nancy Reagan cuts a red, white and blue ribbon to reopen Statue of Liberty after refurbishment

Jul 6 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in the Philippines
Jul 6 Premier Nakasone's Liberal Democratic Party wins Japan's election
Jul 7 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
Jul 7 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices

Event of Interest

Jul 7 Soviet General and spy for the US Dmitri Polyakov arrested in retirement in Russia (executed 1988)

Jul 7 Supreme Court strikes down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
Jul 8 Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
Jul 8 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance
Jul 8 Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
Jul 9 Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
Jul 9 Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
Jul 9 The New Zealand parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Bill legalising consensual sex between men aged 16 and older
Jul 11 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
Jul 11 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
Jul 12 Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
Jul 13 Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa
Jul 14 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
Jul 14 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
Jul 14 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
Jul 14 Richard Miller becomes the 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
Jul 14 Second Lubbers government formed in the Netherlands
Jul 14 Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
Jul 18 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
Jul 21 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
Jul 22 US House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne for tax evasion

Meeting of Interest

Jul 23 Moroccan King Hassan II meets with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres

Jul 24 13th Commonwealth Games open in Edinburgh, Scotland
Jul 24 SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
Jul 25 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
Jul 26 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
Jul 27 Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq
Jul 28 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
Jul 28 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
Jul 29 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
Jul 29 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire

Birthdays in History

Jul 6 David Karp, American web developer and founder of the blogging site Tumblr, born in NYC, New York
Jul 6 Luigi Di Maio, Italian politician, Leader of 5-Star, born in Avellino, Italy
Jul 9 Dominic Cervi, American footballer
Jul 27 Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer, born in Goolwa, South Australia

Weddings in History

Jul 19 Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, Massachusetts
Jul 23 Britain's Prince Andrew (26) weds Sarah Ferguson (26) at Westminster Abbey in London, England

Deaths in History

Jul 4 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), dies at 87
Jul 6 Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, dies at 78
Jul 8 Hyman G. Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy, at 63 years the longest serving US naval officer), dies at 86
Jul 9 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered
Jul 9 Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese communist politician (General Secretary of Vietnam 1960-86), dies at 78
Jul 14 Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer, dies at 92
Jul 19 Alfredo Binda, Italian road cyclist (first to win Giro d'Italia x 5; World Road Race C'ship 1927, 30, 32), dies at 83
Jul 21 Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed
Jul 24 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
Jul 25 Vincente Minnelli, American director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
Jul 26 W. Averell Harriman, American politician (Gov-D-NY) and ambassador to USSR (1943-46), dies at 94
Jul 28 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter and sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91
Jul 31 Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)