Events in History in 1986 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 486 of 486

• Oct 14 Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
• Oct 16 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb

• Oct 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Oct 17 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

• Oct 19 USSR expels five US diplomats
• Oct 20 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
• 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 American writer Edward Tracy kidnapped in Beirut

• 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 27 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
• Oct 28 Stanley E. Hubbard's KOB sells the company's Albuquerque, New Mexico radio stations, KOB-AM and KOB-FM, the stations change their call signs to KKOB

• 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 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 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 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
• Dec 1 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
• Dec 2 Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
• 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 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Dec 8 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
• Dec 10 France performs nuclear test
• 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, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
• Dec 15 150 killed during race riot in Karachi

• Dec 15 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
• 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 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
• Dec 17 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England

• Dec 19 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
• 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 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)

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