Page 5: Historical Events In 1986
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Mar 05 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's inaugural national color newspaper). 


Mar 05 Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies. 


Mar 06 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies 


Mar 06 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8889 km 


Mar 07 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.0 multiple event quake Damage (VI) on Adak and Atka.Tsunami generated with observed wave heights 91 to 122 cm at Kapaa, Kauai and 61 to 91 cm at Hanalei, Kauai and along the coast of Washington. 


Mar 07 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81. 


Mar 07 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires 


Mar 07 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends. 


Mar 08 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon. 


Mar 08 Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50 


Mar 08 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109800 km 


Mar 08 Martina Navratilova is inaugural tennis player to earn $10 million. 


Mar 09 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30100000 


Mar 09 NASA announces searchers are discovered remains of Challenger astronauts. 


Mar 09 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the inaugural Person), dies at 78 


Mar 09 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8030 km 


Mar 10 Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81. 


Mar 11 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 


Mar 11 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm. 


Mar 11 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model. 


Mar 12 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 


Mar 12 Giotto encounters Comet Halley 


Mar 12 In this year, Susan Butcher claims 1158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 


Mar 13 Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies. 


Mar 13 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir 


Mar 13 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet. 


Mar 14 Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81. 


Mar 14 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km). 


Mar 15 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme 


Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF. 


Mar 17 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49. 


Mar 18 Bernard Malamud, US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71 


Mar 18 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money 


Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record). 


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