Historical Events In 1986

Sep 30 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov

Sep 25 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court

Sep 04 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Sep 26 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)

Sep 06 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying

Sep 28 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

Sep 26 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice

Sep 09 NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying

Sep 19 Federal health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

Sep 27 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms

Sep 05 NASA launches DOD-1

Sep 10 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel

Sep 05 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms

Sep 02 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi

Sep 11 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

Sep 06 Barbra Streisand's 1st live concert in 20 years

Sep 13 Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee) crowned Miss America

Sep 07 Desmond Tutu installed to lead south African Anglican Church

Sep 05 Merv Griffin makes his final appearance as host of his own TV talk show.

Sep 29 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges

Sep 01 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album

Sep 12 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange

Sep 09 The first colorized classic movie (computerized color added to an originally black and white movie) appears on Ted Turner's WTBS "Superstation" in Atlanta, GA.

Sep 07 Desmond Tutu becomes Archbishop of Capetown, the first black man to do so

Sep 12 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut

Jun 16 1 day general strike in South Africa

Jun 20 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon

Jun 27 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking

Jun 27 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal

Jun 24 Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years

Jun 20 Movement of sheep banned after they ate grass contaminated by fallout from Chernobyl

Jun 17 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

Jun 21 Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments

Jun 06 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of the NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself

Jun 09 The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

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