Historical Events In 1986
May 16 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
May 25 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
May 16 "Top Gun" premieres
May 10 Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crüe marries Heather Locklear
May 25 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
May 01 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
May 03 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby.
May 20 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
May 04 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghánistán
May 29 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
May 03 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
May 24 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
May 01 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
May 14 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
May 02 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
May 03 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
May 10 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart
May 02 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver British Columbia
May 23 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
May 30 France performs nuclear test
Jan 07 President Regan breaks off all economic links with Libya
Jan 01 Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curaçao (part of Kingdom of the Netherlands)
Jan 20 First USA federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
Jan 06 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
Jan 07 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
Jan 04 David Boon's second Test century, 131 vs India at Adelaide
Jan 18 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
Jan 01 International Peace Year begins
Jan 01 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market (European Economic Community)
Jan 27 13th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis &Crystal Gayle
Jan 21 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana
Jan 01 New York City NY transit fare rises from 90¢ to $1.00
Jan 08 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US
Jan 20 The U.S. observes the first federal holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 28 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
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