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1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year that started on a Wednesday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.

Events of 1986

January

January 1—Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.
January 1—Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
January 1—The Province of Flevoland is established in the Netherlands.
January 1—UNIDO becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
January 9—After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
January 12—STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.

Disintegration of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

January 19—The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.
January 20—The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
January 20—The first federal Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., is observed.
January 24—The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.
January 25—Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a successful 5-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26th as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.
January 28—STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).
January 29—Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda after leading a successful 5-year guerrilla war.

February

February 2—One of Australia's worst crimes, the Anita Cobby murder, occurs.
February 3—Pixar Animation Studios is opened.
February 7—President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.
February 9—Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.
February 11—Human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the Soviet Union and leaves the country.
February 15—The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.
February 16—The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
February 16—The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
February 17—The Single European Act is signed.
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—People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president. Salvador Laurel becomes her Vice President.
February 25—Egyptian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the pyramids, set fire to them and loot them.
February 26—People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
February 27—The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
February 28—Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated on his way home from the cinema.

March

March 3—The first paper is published describing the Atomic force microscope, invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christophe Berger. [1]
March 4—The Today national tabloid newspaper is launched in the United Kingdom, pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing, at a time when British national newspapers still use Linotype machines and letterpress.
March 8—The Japanese Suisei probe 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 are still inside.
March 13—Irish racemare Dawn Run wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham, England, becoming the first racehorse to complete the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double.
March 25—The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture.
March 26—An article in the New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.
March 27—A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing a police officer.
March 31—A fire devastates Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England.
March 31—A Mexicana Boeing 727 jetliner crashes at Maravatio, Mexico, killing 173. [2]

April

April 2—A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.
April 5—1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible.
April 13—Pope John Paul II officially visits the Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.
April 14—Hailstones weighing 2.2 lb (1 kg) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
April 15—Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region
April 17—British journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (released in August 1991) – 3 others are found dead; Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claims responsibility in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya.
April 17—A treaty ends the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly.
April 17—The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.
April 21—Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, discovering only a bottle of moonshine.
April 26— The Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kiev, Ukraine, "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property".^[1] Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".^[1]
April 27—"Captain Midnight" interrupts the HBO satellite feed.
April 29—Roger Clemens sets the record for the most strikeouts in a 9-inning MLB game, striking out 20 batters.
April 29—Diamond Jubilee of Emperor Showa is held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo

May

May 2—The 1986 World Exposition opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May 7—The European Champion Clubs' Cup is won by Steaua Bucharest on penalties in a final against FC Barcelona.
May 8—Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica.
May 16—The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
May 24—The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup, beating the Calgary Flames in 5 games.
May 25—Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
The Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsizes in the Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.
May 31—The 1986 FIFA World Cup begins in Mexico.

June

June 4—Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
June 8—The Boston Celtics defeat the Houston Rockets in 6 games to win the NBA Championship.
June 8—Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
June 9—The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
June 19—American college basketball player Len Bias suffers a fatal cardiac arrhythmia from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected 2nd overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft.
June 22—Diego Maradona scores the "goal of the century" straight after the infamous "Hand of God" as Argentina defeat England in the quarter finals of the FIFA World Cup.
June 23—Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software. [3]
June 29—Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

July

July 1—CSX Transportation is established.
July 5—The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing.
July 5–20—The Goodwill Games are held in Moscow.
July 7—Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers executed in Malaysia.
July 23—In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
July 27—Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.
July 28—Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London.

August

August 6—A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (12.9 in) of rain in a day on Sydney.
August 6—In Louisville, Kentucky, William J. Schroeder, the second artificial heart recipient, dies after 620 days.
August 6—Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
August 19—Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
August 20—In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.
August 21—The Lake Nyos disaster occurs in Cameroon, killing nearly 2,000 people.
August 31—The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk

carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

August 31—Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.
August 31—The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It wanders the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.

September

September 1—Establishment of Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan.
September 4—Eusko Alkartasuna, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
September 5—Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by 4 Abu Nidal terrorists.
September 6—In Istanbul, 2 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Sabbath services.
September 7—Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.
September 7—Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of his bodyguards are killed.
September 13—A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying 1/5 of the city.
September 27—Cliff Burton, bassist for Metallica from 1982–1986, dies on the Damage Inc. tour in Europe after being crushed by Metallica's tour bus.

October

October 1—U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.
October 3—TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens at Chalk River Laboratories.
October 9—United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
October 9—News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the Fox Broadcasting Company.
October 9—The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opened in Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
October 10—An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
October 11—Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe (the talks break down in failure).
October 12—Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
October 16—The International Olympic Committee chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Barcelona, Spain to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
October 19—Mozambican president Samora Machel's plane crashes in South Africa.
October 21—The Marshall Islands become an associated state under the Compact of Free Association.
October 22—In New York City WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the Hudson River, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker. The last words heard on-the-air were Dornacker's screams of terror, "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!"
October 26—Bus deregulation goes into effect in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.
October 27—The International World Day of Prayer is held in Assisi, Italy.
October 27—World Series: The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox in 7 games. This is the second world series title in the Mets franchise. It is also remembered for Game 6, when Bill Buckner lets an easy ground ball hit by Mookie Wilson roll through his legs, letting the Mets win and pull even with the Red Sox in the series.
October 27—The Big Bang in the London Stock Exchange abolishes fixed commission charges, paving the way for electronic trading.
October 28—The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
October 28—In London, Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation by the trial judge that he should serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole.

November

November 1—Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987 following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
November 3—Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
November 4—Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in 6 years. In California, Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by voters from the Supreme Court of California for opposing capital punishment.
November 6—Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport, killing 45 people (the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record).
November 11—Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.
November 12—Australian singer John Farnham releases the album Whispering Jack, which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.
November 18—Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.
November 21—Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
November 22—Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.
November 25—Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
November 26—Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that as of December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.

December

December 7—A 5.7 Richter scale earthquake destroys most of the Bulgarian town of Strajica, killing 2 people.
December 14—Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.
December 19—Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after years of internal exile.
December 20—Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.
December 22—British Liberal Party Member of Parliament David Penhaligon, 42, is killed in a car crash near Truro in Cornwall, England.
December 23—Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
December 26—After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.
December 31—A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.

Undated

The National park passport stamps program begins.
The Council on Competitiveness was founded
Average per capita income in Japan exceeds that in the USA.

Fictional

Computer/video games:

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) – Set in 1986.
Shenmue (1999) – Story begins in 1986.
Rogue Warrior (video game) (2009) - Set in 1986

TV

Kamen Rider Kiva (2008) – Half of the story set in 1986.
Doctor Who (1966, 1985) – Two serials took place in 1986.

Anime

Umineko no Naku Koro ni (2007–) – Set in October, 1986

**1986 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1986 MCMLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2739
Armenian calendar	1435 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԵ
Bahá'í calendar	142 – 143
Bengali calendar	1393
Berber calendar	2936
Buddhist calendar	2530
Burmese calendar	1348
Byzantine calendar	7494 – 7495
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十一月廿一日 (4622/4682-11-21) — to — 丙寅年十二月初一日 (4623/4683-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1702 – 1703
Ethiopian calendar	1978 – 1979
Hebrew calendar	5746 – 5747
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2041 – 2042
- Shaka Samvat	1908 – 1909
- Kali Yuga	5087 – 5088
Holocene calendar	11986
Iranian calendar	1364 – 1365
Islamic calendar	1406 – 1407
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 61 (昭和61年)
Korean calendar	4319
Thai solar calendar	2529
Unix time	504921600 – 536457599

Books

Watchmen
Galapagos (Novel)—Written in 1985, set in 1986

Births

January–March

January 1—Lee Sungmin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
January 3—Lloyd Polite, American singer
January 5—Deepika Padukone, Bollywood actress
January 5—Teppei Koike, Japanese singer and actor
January 6—Petter Northug, Norwegian cross-country skier
January 6—Alex Turner, British musician
January 6—Irina Sheik, Russian model
January 8—David Silva, Spanish footballer
January 10—Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player
January 12—Gemma Arterton, British actress
January 15—Jessy Schram, American actress
January 17—Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer
January 22—Daniel Smith, American actor (d. 2006)
January 24—Mischa Barton, British-born American actress
January 24—Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
January 26—Gerald Green, American basketball player
January 26—Hero, Korean singer (TVXQ)
January 26—Matt Heafy, American singer
January 29—Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
January 31—Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian footballer
February 1—Lauren Conrad, American television personality
February 2—Miwa Asao, Japanese beach volleyball player
February 2—Tiffany Vise, American figure skater
February 5—Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen
February 6—U-Know, Korean singer (TVXQ)
February 6—Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian international footballer
February 7—Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress
February 8—Charles Andrew Williams, American murderer
February 10—Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress
February 12—Gary LeRoi Gray, American actor
February 13—Stephen Colletti, American television personality
February 14—Tiffany Thornton, American actress
February 14—Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
February 15—Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
February 19—Marta, Brazilian footballer
February 19—Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
February 19—Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian
February 21—Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
February 21—Prince Amedeo, Archduke of Austria-Este, Son of Princess Astrid of Belgium and Prince Lorenz of Belgium
February 23—Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer and actor
February 25—Justin Berfield, American actor
February 25—Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
February 25—James and Oliver Phelps British actors
February 26—Crystal Kay, Japan-born singer
February 26—Teresa Palmer, Australian actress and model
March 3—Stacie Orrico, American singer
March 4—Margo Harshman, American actress
March 5—Corey Brewer, American basketball player
March 6—Eli Marienthal, American actor
March 8—Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, a member of the Japanese Imperial Family
March 9—Brittany Snow, American actress
March 12—Danny Jones, British musician
March 13—Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
March 14—Jamie Bell, British actor
March 16—Ken Doane, American wrestler
March 16—T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
March 16—Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
March 17—Olesya Rulin, Russian-born actress
March 23—Steven Strait, American actor
March 25—Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player
March 25—Megan Gibson, American softball player
March 26—Jonny Craig, Canadian singer and songwriter
March 27—Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American wrestling valet
March 28—Lady Gaga, American singer and songwriter
March 29—Romina Oprandi, Italian tennis player
March 30—Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

April–June

April 1—Yurika Nakamura, Japanese long-distance runner
April 3—Amanda Bynes, American actress
April 3—Coleen Rooney, English model (and footballer's wife)
April 4—Eunhyuk, Korean singer (Super Junior)
April 8—Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
April 8—Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
April 8—Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress and model
April 9—Leighton Meester, American actress
April 10—Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer
April 10—Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
April 18—Maurice Edu , American footballer
April 19—Candace Parker, American basketball player
April 22—Amber Heard, American actress
April 27—Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player
May 7—Amy Kwolek, English actress
May 12—Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
May 13—Robert Pattinson, British actor
May 13—Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer
May 14—Joseph Attieh, Lebanese singer
May 15—Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
May 16—Megan Fox, American actress
May 17—Tahj Mowry, American actor
May 19—Eric Lloyd, American actor
May 20—Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
May 21—Myra, American singer
May 22—Tatiana Volosozhar, Ukrainian figure skater
May 23—Nico Colaluca , American footballer
May 23—Valentina Marchei , Italian figure skater
May 25—Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
May 28—Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
May 29—Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
May 31—Brooke Castile, American figure skater
May 31—Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
May 31—Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
June 1—Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
June 3—Brenden Richard Jefferson, American actor
June 3—Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
June 3—Tomáš Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
June 4—Micky, Korean singer (TVXQ)
June 11—Shia LaBeouf, American actor
June 13—Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses
June 13—Kat Dennings, American actress
June 14—Haley Hudson, American actress
June 15—Momoko Ueda, Japanese golfer
June 18—Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
June 18—Shusaku Nishikawa, Japanese footballer
June 19—Marvin Williams, American basketball player
June 25—Lee Ho-Suk, South Korean short-track skater
June 25—Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
June 26—Philip Hughes, American baseball player
June 27—Drake Bell, American actor and singer
June 28—Kellie Pickler, American singer
June 28—Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
June 29—Austin Drage, British actor and singer
June 30—Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model

July–September

July 1—Casey Reinhardt, American model
July 2—Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
July 6—Caroline Welz, tallest woman in Germany and model
July 8—Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
July 8—Jake McDorman, American actor
July 9—Kiely Williams, American actress and singer
July 12—JP Pietersen, South African rugby player
July 12—Krystal Forscutt Australian reality TV star
July 17—Dana, Korean singer/dancer/actress (TSZX)
July 24—Natalie Tran, Australian Comedian
July 25—Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Brazilian footballer
July 28—Alexandra Chando, American actress
July 31—Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
August 2—Caitlin Murphy, Australian model and actress
August 3—Charlotte Casiraghi, heir to the Monaco throne
August 3- Prince Louis of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
August 4—Oleg Ivanov, Russian footballer
August 5—Paula Creamer, American golfer
August 6—Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player
August 7—Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
August 11—Kaori Fukuhara, Seiyū
August 14—Nigel Boogaard, Australian Footballer
August 16—Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player
August 16—Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
August 17—Tobias Schönenberg, German actor and photo model
August 20—Robert Clark, Canadian actor
August 21—Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
August 22—Jack Perkins, Australian racing driver
August 23—Neil Cicierega, American musician and animator
August 26—Cassie Ventura, American pop and R&B singer
August 27—Mario, R&B singer and actor
August 28—Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier/hostage
August 29—Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
August 29—Samuell Benta, British actor
August 30—Ryan Ross, guitarist (Panic at the Disco)
August 31—Feng Tianwei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
September 3—Shaun White, American professional snowboarder
September 6—Raven Riley, American porn star
September 12—Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
September 14—Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer
September 15—Jenna McCorkell, British figure skater
September 16—Kyla Pratt, American actress
September 18—Keeley Hazell, British model
September 18—Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter
September 19—Peter Vack, American voice actor
September 19—Mandy Musgrave, American actress
September 21—Faris Rotter, British vocalist (The Horrors)
September 23—Kaylee DeFer, American actress
September 24—Leah Dizon, American singer and model
September 26—Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
September 27—Natasha Thomas, Danish singer and songwriter
September 28—Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
September 29—Lisa Foiles, American actress and singer

October–December

October 1—Jurnee Smollett, American actress
October 2—Camilla Belle, American actress
October 4—Yuridia, Mexican Singer
October 6—Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
October 6—Olivia Thirlby, American actress
October 9—Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
October 10—Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
October 12—Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
October 14—Skyler Shaye, American actress
October 15—Lee Donghae, Korean singer (Super Junior)
October 16—Craig Pickering, British sprinter
October 21—Natalee Holloway, American murder victim (d.2005)
October 21—Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor
October 22—Kyle Gallner, American actor
October 22—Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
October 24—Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
October 30—Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
November 1—Penn Badgley, American actor
November 2—Talan Torriero, American reality television star
November 3—Jasmine Trias, Filipino-American singer
November 4—Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer
November 5—BoA, Korean singer
November 5—Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
November 10—Josh Peck, American actor and director
November 11—François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
November 12—Evan Yo, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
November 15—Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
November 17—Karmichael Hunt, Australian NRL player
November 17—Nani, Cape Verde-born Portuguese footballer
November 18—Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
November 19—Veronica Scott, American Fashion Designer
November 20—Aaron Yan,Taiwanese Singer
November 20—Oliver Sykes,English vocalist
November 22—Oscar Pistorius,South African Paralympic runner
November 25—Katie Cassidy, American singer and model
November 25—Amber Hagerman, American murder victim and namesake for the AMBER alert system (d. 1996)
November 26—Antonella Barba, American singer
December 1—DeSean Jackson, American football player
December 4—Martell Webster, American basketball player
December 8—Amir Khan, British boxer
December 11—Lee Peltier, English footballer
December 15—Xiah, Korean singer (TVXQ)
December 18—Jery Sandoval, Colombian actress, model and singer
December 19—Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
December 24—Satomi Ishihara, Japanese actress
December 24—Riyo Mori, Japanese Miss Universe 2007 winner
December 26—Mew Azama, Japanese actress
December 29—Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
December 29—Katie Sheridan, British actress

Deaths

January–March

January 1—Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
January 2—Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
January 4—Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
January 4—Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy (b. 1949)
January 7—Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917)
January 8—Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
January 10—Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
January 14—Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
January 23—Willard Van Dyke, American filmmaker and photographer (b. 1906)
January 24—L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
January 24—Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b. 1921)
January 27—Lilli Palmer, German actress (b. 1914)
January 28—Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)
January 28—Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut and teacher (b. 1948)
January 28—Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)
January 28—Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946)
January 28—Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)
January 28—Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)
January 28—Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1945)
January 29—Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
February 1—Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1902)
February 6—Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1899)
February 7—Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese-American architect, designed the twin towers of the World Trade Center (b. 1912)
February 10—Brian Aherne, British actor (b. 1902)
February 11—Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)
February 11—Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
February 16—Howard Da Silva, American actor (b. 1909)
February 21—Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
February 21—Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian, claimed to be the oldest man ever (b. 1865?)
February 24—Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of medicare" in Canada (b. 1904)
February 27—Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
February 28—Olof Palme, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
February 28—Thomas Williams, British politician (b. 1915)
March 4—Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
March 4—Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
March 6—Adolph Caesar, American actor (b. 1933)
March 6—Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
March 10—Myron Cohen, American comedian (b. 1902)
March 10—Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907)
March 18—Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
March 22—Harriette Simpson Arnow, American novelist (b. 1908)
March 22—Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
March 23—Moshe Feinstein, Orthodox Rabbi (b. 1895)
March 28—Virginia Gilmore, American actress (b. 1919)
March 29—Harry Ritz, American actor (b. 1907)
March 30—James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
March 31—O'Kelly Isley, American singer of The Isley Brothers (b. 1937)
March 31—Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925)

April–June

April 3—Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
April 7—Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
April 8—Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
April 13—Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
April 14—Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
April 15—Jean Genet, French writer (b. 1910)
April 15—Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)
April 19—Aileen Britton, Australian actress (b. 1916)
April 19—Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907)
April 22—Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b. 1907)
April 23—Harold Arlen, American music composer (b. 1905)
April 23—Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b. 1906)
April 24—Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, later titled "Duke of Windsor" due to his abdication (b. 1896)
April 26—Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
April 26—Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
April 26—Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
April 30—Robert Stevenson, English film director (b. 1905)
May 1—Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
May 2—Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956)
May 3—Robert Alda, American-born actor (b. 1914)
May 9—Herschel Bernardi, American actor (b. 1923)
May 9—Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914)
May 11—Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum (b. 1910)
May 12—Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
May 14—Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (b. 1975)
May 15—Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
May 15—Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)
May 19—Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
May 23—Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
May 24—Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (b. 1895)
May 25—Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
May 26—Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer (b. 1963)
May 30—Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
May 31—Jane Frank, American artist (b. 1918)
May 31—James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
June 3—Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
June 5—Bryan Grant, American tennis champion (b. 1909)
June 13—Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
June 13—Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress (b. 1939)
June 14—Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
June 14—Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (b. 1918)
June 14—Marlin Perkins, American zoologist (b. 1905)
June 16—Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b. 1902)
June 17—Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
June 18—Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
June 19—Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
June 19—Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b. 1944)
June 21—Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor and author (b. 1923)
June 29—Robert Drivas, American actor (b. 1938)

July–September

Oscar Zariski

Fritz Albert Lipmann

July 3—Rudy Vallée, American singer, actor, and bandleader (b. 1901)
July 4—Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
July 6—Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
July 8—Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (b. 1900)
July 8—Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b. 1909)
July 14—Raymond Loewy, French-born industrial designer (b. 1893)
July 15—Florence Halop, American actress (b. 1923)
July 15—Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
July 21—Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
July 24—Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
July 24—Laurie Nash, Australian sportsman (b. 1910)
July 24—Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1903)
July 25—Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
July 26—W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat and politician (b. 1891)
July 27—Osbert Lancaster, British cartoonist (b. 1908)
July 31—Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
August 2—Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (b. 1927)
August 10—Chuck McKinley, American tennis champion (b. 1941)
August 16—Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
August 19—Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
August 19—Lorenzo Tucker, American actor (b. 1907)
August 20—Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (b. 1923)
August 21—Thad Jones, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
August 22—Celal Bayar, ex president of Turkey (b:1883)
August 26—Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
August 29 - Arthur Meyerhoff, American advertising agency executive and entrepreneur (b. 1895)
August 31—Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
August 31—Henry Moore, British sculptor (b. 1898)
September 1—Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
September 4—Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911)
September 6—Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)
September 7—Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1914)
September 12—Frank Nelson, American actor (b. 1911)
September 18—Pat Phoenix, British actress (b. 1923)
September 22—József Asbóth, Hungarian tennis champion (b. 1917)
September 25—Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
September 26—Noboru Terada, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917)
September 27—Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
September 28—Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)

October–December

Samora Machel

Harold Macmillan

October 5—Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1899)
October 5—James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
October 7—Wallace Wade, American football coach, University of Alabama, Duke University (b. 1892)
October 11—Boris Leven, Russian-born art director (b. 1908)
October 14—Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
October 16—Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
October 19—Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b.1933)
October 22—Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
October 23—Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
October 25—Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop) (b. 1919)
October 26—Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
October 28—Ian Marter, British actor and writer (b. 1944)
October 31—Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896)
November 2—Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
November 5—Claude Jutra, Canadian film director (b. 1930)
November 6—Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
November 8—Artur London, Czech statesman (b. 1915)
November 8—Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
November 10—Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
November 16—Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1923)
November 18—Gia Carangi, supermodel (b. 1960)
November 21—Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904)
November 21—Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
November 22—Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910)
November 22—William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (b. 1910)
November 29—Cary Grant, British actor (b. 1904)
December 2—Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor (b. 1917)
December 3—Austin Hayes, Irish footballer (b. 1958)
December 10—Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
December 13—Heather Angel, English actress (b. 1909)
December 15—Serge Lifar, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
December 21—Willy Coppens, Belgian pilot (b. 1892)
December 22—Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell), British novelist and campaigner for Jewish refugees (b. 1904)
December 26—Elsa Lanchester, English actress (b. 1902)
December 29—Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
December 29—Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
December 31—Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934)

Unknown dates

Hilda Conkling, child poet (b. 1910)
Iren Marik, classical Hungarian pianist (b. 1906)

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Templeton Prize

Rev. Dr. James McCord

Notes

^ ^a ^b Benjamin K. Sovacool. The costs of failure: A preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907–2007, Energy Policy 36 (2008), p. 1806.

Categories: 1986

Quotes

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Strategy wiki

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Games released in 1986.

Year:

← 1985 | 1986 | 1987 →

Subcategories

This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.

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Pages in category "1986"

The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total.

1

10-Yard Fight

A

B

C

D

DAIVA Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia
Dead Zone
Deadly Towers
Deep Dungeon: Madou Senki
Doraemon
Dragon Ball: Shenron no Nazo
Dragon Quest
Dragon Warrior

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F

G

H

I

Ikari Warriors

J

Jajamaru no Daibouken
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest

K

KiKi KaiKai
Kid Icarus
Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble
Kieta Princess
Kineco - Kinetic Connection
King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch
King's Knight
Knight Lore
Koneko Monogatari: The Adventures of Chatran

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M

N

O

Out Run

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R

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Safari Hunt
Seikima II
Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken
Sky Kid Deluxe
Solomon no Kagi
Solomon's Key
Space Hunter
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter
Spy vs. Spy III: Arctic Antics
Spy vs. Spy Volume I & II
Sqoon
Star Soldier
Star Voyager (NES)
Stinger
Suishou no Dragon
Super Chinese
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan)
Super Monkey Daibouken
Super Pitfall
Super Sprint
Super Star Force
Super Wonder Boy
Super Xevious: Ganpu no Nazo

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Urban Champion
Urusei Yatsura: Lum no Wedding Bell

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Category: Years

Genealogy

Up to date as of February 01, 2010

From Familypedia

Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1983 1984 1985 - 1986 - 1987 1988 1989

1986 by topic:
Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art
Aviation - Film - Home video - Literature (Poetry) Meteorology - Music (Country, Metal) Rail transport - Radio - Science
Sports - Television - Video gaming
Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Zimbabwe
Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders
Religious leaders - Law
Categories: Births - Marriages - Deaths - Introductions
Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar).

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1986

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths - Ship events

4 Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize

5 See also - Notes - External links