Historical Events In 1986

Apr 13 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record

Apr 30 In the Michoacan, Mexico region a 7.0 earthquake caused some minor damage (V) in the Mexico City area

Apr 04 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season

Apr 28 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster

Apr 09 "Dallas" announces it will revive the killed Bobby Ewing character

Apr 11 In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction.

Apr 20 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland

Apr 06 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs

Apr 13 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

Apr 11 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km

Apr 15 US air raids Libya, respondings to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing

Apr 08 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel

Apr 26 Worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl USSR, 31 die

Apr 13 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue

Apr 15 American warplanes bomb Tripoli, Libya, in retaliation for Libyan terrorism

Apr 26 Maria Shriver & Arnold Schwarzenegger marry

Apr 01 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in the Irish Sea

Apr 26 Kashmir-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake resulted in six people killed, about 30 injured and 85 percent of the houses damaged in the Dharmsala, India area

Nov 29 Actor Cary Grant died on this day at the age of 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances

Nov 22 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals

Nov 14 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky

Nov 20 UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS

Nov 13 NASA launches space vehicle S-199

Nov 13 US violates Iran arms boycott

Nov 04 Democrats gain control over the US Senate

Nov 10 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill

Nov 28 NBC’s Ahmad Rashad heard the acceptance of his marriage proposal from Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of the Detroit Lions-New York Jets football game.

Nov 02 Following intervention of Terry Waite, US hostage David Jacobsen is fred in Beirut after 18 months imprisonment

Nov 03 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran

Nov 22 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title

Nov 25 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal

Nov 03 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique

Nov 06 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

Nov 28 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time

Sep 26 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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