1986
Events
* January 1 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
* January 1 - Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is
separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
* January 1 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
* January 9 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves
the instant camera business.
* January 12 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first
Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
* January 20 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct
the Channel Tunnel.
* January 20 - The first federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
* January 24 - Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
* January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
* February 7 - 28 years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President
Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
* February 11 - Human Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky is released by
USSR, leaves the country.
* February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
* February 19 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves
a treaty outlawing genocide.
* February 25 - President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the
nation after 20 years of rule.
* February 26 - After exiled President Ferdinand Marcos leaves the
Philippines, Corazon Aquino is inaugurated president.
* February 27 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be
televised on a trial basis.
* February 28 - Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is shot dead on his way
home from the cinema, his wife the only witness.
* March 2 - Corazon Aquino is inaugurated as President of the
Philippines.
* March 8 - Japanese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet, studying
its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
* March 9 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but
heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The
bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
* April 3 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer.
* April 26 - In the Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear
plant explodes creating the worlds worst nuclear disaster. 31 are
killed directly by the the incident and many thousands more were
exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material.
* April 27 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's
satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.
* May 2 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada opens.
* May 25 - "Hands Across America"
* May 26 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
* July 5 - The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an
extensive refurbishing.
* July 23 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson
at Westminster Abbey.
* August - Apple Lisa discontinued by Apple.
* August 20 - In Edmon, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry
Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then comits suicide.
* August 21 - The Lake Nyos Tragedy occurs, killing nearly 2000 people.
* December 31 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
* The Iran-Contra affair is publicly exposed in October and November
* Commonly considered the start date of the golden age of old school rap
Art, Culture & Fashion
* 1986 in film
o Platoon
o Children of a Lesser God
o Hannah and Her Sisters
o Ferris Bueller's Day Off
o Top Gun starring Tom Cruise
* 1986 in literature
* February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, named poet laureate of the United
States
* 1986 in music
o January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly
Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley)
* 1986 in sports
* 1986 in television
o May 22 - Cher calls David Letterman an "A**hole" on the air during
a taping of Late Night with David Letterman.
o October ? The FOX Broadcasting Company becomes the United States'
fourth television network.
Births
* February 21 - Charlotte Church, singer
* April 3 - Amanda Bynes, teen actress and show host
* June 13 - The Olsen twins
* March 14 - Jamie Bell, actor
Deaths
* January 14 - Donna Reed, actress
* January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of
Scientology
* January 24 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer
* January 24 - Vincente Minnelli, director
* January 27 - Lilli Palmer, actress
* January 28 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee,
Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg
Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe.
* February 11 - Frank Herbert, science fiction author.
* February 27 - Jacques Plante, ice hockey star
* February 28 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister
* March 6 - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
* March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
* March 30 - James Cagney, actor
* April 3 - Richard Manuel, musician ("The Band")
* April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
* April 26 - Broderick Crawford, actor
* May 9 - Tenzing Norgay, mountaineer
* May 12 - Elisabeth Bergner, actress
* May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer
* May 23 - Sterling Hayden
* May 25 - Chester Bowles, politician
* June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
* August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
* August 31 - Henry Moore, sculptor
* December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
Nobel Prizes
* Physics- Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
* Chemistry - Dudley R Herschbach, Yuan T Lee, John C Polanyi
* Medicine - Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
* Literature - Wole Soyinka
* Peace - Elie Wiesel
* Economics - James Buchanan Jr
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