Historical Events In 1986
Mar 11 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
Mar 08 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
Mar 05 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's first national color newspaper)
Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams", single goes #1
Mar 13 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
Mar 20 Sondra Gotlieb, wife of Canada's then-ambassador to the USA Alan Gotlieb, slaps an aide in public during a reception for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
Mar 22 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 9.30)
Mar 07 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
Mar 06 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
Mar 31 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
Mar 24 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
Aug 16 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
Aug 06 William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
Aug 20 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
Aug 31 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
Aug 28 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
Aug 31 A private plane collides with an Aeromexico jet over Cerritos, CA, killing 82 people.Aug 31,
Aug 15 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
Aug 30 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
Aug 30 US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.
Aug 21 A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'
Aug 22 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
Aug 27 US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate
Aug 17 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
Aug 02 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
Aug 21 Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746
Aug 30 In Romania a 6.9 earthquake killed 2 people, 558 injured, and about 55,000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12,500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area
Aug 06 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM
Aug 31 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel
Sep 26 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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