Events in History in 1986 (Part 3)

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Nov 6 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

Nov 6 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
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 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
Nov 13 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
Nov 14 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
Nov 14 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
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 24 Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL 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 26 Trial begins in Israel for John Demjanjuk, accused of being Nazi prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka concentration camp
Nov 28 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
Nov 28 OPEC reaches oil production accord
Nov 28 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
Dec 1 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
Dec 2 Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
Dec 4 US launches its Fleet Satellite Communications System (Fltsatcom-7)
Dec 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

Dec 10 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

Dec 11 South Africa censors press
Dec 12 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
Dec 12 South African journalist and activist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested at John Vorster Square
Dec 14 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world
Dec 15 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
Dec 15 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift

Dec 15 CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure

Dec 16 Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure

Dec 17 American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski is arrested at a roadblock

Dec 17 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England
Dec 17 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
Dec 19 OPEC reaches an accord that would cut production by 7 percent for the first six months of 1987 and would raise prices immediately toward a target world oil price of $18 per barrel

Dec 19 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile

Dec 20 White teenagers beat blacks in New York City's Howard Beach
Dec 23 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
Dec 24 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
Dec 24 Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
Dec 26 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
Dec 26 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
Dec 31 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
Dec 31 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
Dec 31 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)