Page 5: Historical Events In 1986

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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Jun 01   Jo gartner: Austrian racing driver    

Jul 08   Renata costa: Brazilian footballer   

Jul 12   Jp pietersen: South african rugby union footballer   

Jul 12   Krystal forscutt: Australian model/reality tv contestant   

Jul 28   Alexandra chando: American actress   

Sep 14   Ai takahashi: Japanese singer (morning musume)   

Sep 14   A.j. trauth: American actor   

Sep 18   Keeley hazell: British model   

Jan 01   Alfredo binda: Italian cyclist (b. 1902)   

Jan 02   Una merkel: Us actress (abraham lincoln),   

Jan 03   Jens bjerre: Composer,   

Jan 04   Christopher isherwood: British writer (lions & shadows),   

Jan 06   Louis lebeer: Dutch art historian,   

Jan 07   Juan rulfo: Writer,   

Jan 08   Yaroslav seifert: Czech poet (nobel 1984),   

Jan 10   Joseph kraft: Us columnist,