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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