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- 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
Historic Event
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
Historic Event
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
Historic Event
Dec 7 President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
Nobel Prize
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
Historic Event
Dec 15 CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
Historic Event
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
Historic Event
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)