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Events on the year of 1986 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1986 Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao
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01 Jan 1986 Barbra Striesand and Jon Peters relationship breaks up
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01 Jan 1986 Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community
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01 Jan 1986 Spain and Portugal are admitted into the European Community.
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01 Jan 1986 Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands.
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02 Jan 1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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02 Jan 1986 New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
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06 Jan 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
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06 Jan 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
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06 Jan 1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
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07 Jan 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
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07 Jan 1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
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07 Jan 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
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07 Jan 1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
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08 Jan 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
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10 Jan 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
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10 Jan 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
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11 Jan 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
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11 Jan 1986 1st black Lieutenant-Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Virginia)
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12 Jan 1986 Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
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12 Jan 1986 Chicago Blackhawk Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
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12 Jan 1986 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
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13 Jan 1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
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13 Jan 1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
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13 Jan 1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
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14 Jan 1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
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14 Jan 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
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15 Jan 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
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15 Jan 1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World
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16 Jan 1986 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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16 Jan 1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
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17 Jan 1986 Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 to regain WBA heavyweight title
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18 Jan 1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
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18 Jan 1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
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18 Jan 1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For" hits #1
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19 Jan 1986 The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
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19 Jan 1986 Spain recognizes Israel
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19 Jan 1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
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20 Jan 1986 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
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20 Jan 1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
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20 Jan 1986 Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under English Channel)
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20 Jan 1986 Military coup in Lesotho under General-Major Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
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21 Jan 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38
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21 Jan 1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
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21 Jan 1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
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22 Jan 1986 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
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23 Jan 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances
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23 Jan 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
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23 Jan 1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
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23 Jan 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City NY for 13 performances
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23 Jan 1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley)
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24 Jan 1986 Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus.
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24 Jan 1986 New York Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
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24 Jan 1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
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24 Jan 1986 43rd Golden Globes Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
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24 Jan 1986 South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
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25 Jan 1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
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26 Jan 1986 The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
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26 Jan 1986 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
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26 Jan 1986 Super Bowl XX Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Richard Dent, Chicago, Defensive End
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26 Jan 1986 Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
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26 Jan 1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
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27 Jan 1986 13th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & Crystal Gayle
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28 Jan 1986 Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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28 Jan 1986 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
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28 Jan 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY for 24 performances
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28 Jan 1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC
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29 Jan 1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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29 Jan 1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda
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31 Jan 1986 Mary Lund of Minnesota, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
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01 Feb 1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
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01 Feb 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
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02 Feb 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
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02 Feb 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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02 Feb 1986 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
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02 Feb 1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected President of Costa Rica
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03 Feb 1986 President Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
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04 Feb 1986 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
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04 Feb 1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
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05 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
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06 Feb 1986 New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
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07 Feb 1986 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent Dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
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07 Feb 1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
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08 Feb 1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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08 Feb 1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
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09 Feb 1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen
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09 Feb 1986 Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
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09 Feb 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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09 Feb 1986 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
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09 Feb 1986 Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
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10 Feb 1986 "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
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10 Feb 1986 John Lennon's "Live in NYC" album is released
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11 Feb 1986 Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
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11 Feb 1986 Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
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11 Feb 1986 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
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12 Feb 1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs Guyana
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15 Feb 1986 Philippines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
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15 Feb 1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
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15 Feb 1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
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16 Feb 1986 The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
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16 Feb 1986 M
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16 Feb 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances
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16 Feb 1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
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16 Feb 1986 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
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16 Feb 1986 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
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17 Feb 1986 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
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17 Feb 1986 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sells capsule drugs
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17 Feb 1986 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
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17 Feb 1986 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
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18 Feb 1986 San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
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19 Feb 1986 Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
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19 Feb 1986 US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
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19 Feb 1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
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19 Feb 1986 Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
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20 Feb 1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York
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20 Feb 1986 The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
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20 Feb 1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration
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21 Feb 1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
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21 Feb 1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
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22 Feb 1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
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23 Feb 1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
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23 Feb 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
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23 Feb 1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds)
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24 Feb 1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
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24 Feb 1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
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25 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines, Marcos flees
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25 Feb 1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
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25 Feb 1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of Philippines; Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
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25 Feb 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
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25 Feb 1986 28th Grammy Awards We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins win
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25 Feb 1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
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26 Feb 1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
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26 Feb 1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
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27 Feb 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
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28 Feb 1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
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28 Feb 1986 Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
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28 Feb 1986 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
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02 Mar 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
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02 Mar 1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
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02 Mar 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
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04 Mar 1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
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07 Mar 1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends
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07 Mar 1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
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07 Mar 1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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08 Mar 1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
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08 Mar 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
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09 Mar 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
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09 Mar 1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger Astronauts
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10 Mar 1986 Ernie Lombardi, National League MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
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11 Mar 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4 / 21 / 753 BC
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11 Mar 1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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11 Mar 1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
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11 Mar 1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm
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11 Mar 1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
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12 Mar 1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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12 Mar 1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
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12 Mar 1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
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13 Mar 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
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13 Mar 1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
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14 Mar 1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
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15 Mar 1986 Collapse of the Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
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15 Mar 1986 Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
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16 Mar 1986 Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
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17 Mar 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
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18 Mar 1986 Exciting draw in final gives New South Wales the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
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18 Mar 1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money
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20 Mar 1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government
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20 Mar 1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
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20 Mar 1986 Jacques Chirac become Prime Minister of French government
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21 Mar 1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 seconds) and 3 km (4:18.02)
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21 Mar 1986 Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
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21 Mar 1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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21 Mar 1986 Karin Kania (German Democratic Republic) skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.52 seconds) & 3 km (4:18.02)
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21 Mar 1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
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22 Mar 1986 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
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22 Mar 1986 Andrea Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7: 0.99)
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22 Mar 1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
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22 Mar 1986 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
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22 Mar 1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1: 9.30)
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22 Mar 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
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22 Mar 1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Mar 1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
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22 Mar 1986 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
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22 Mar 1986 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
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23 Mar 1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo; First Blood Part II wins
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23 Mar 1986 Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
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23 Mar 1986 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
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24 Mar 1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa, " William Hurt and G Page win
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24 Mar 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
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24 Mar 1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
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24 Mar 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
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24 Mar 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
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24 Mar 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
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25 Mar 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
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25 Mar 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
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26 Mar 1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
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27 Mar 1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
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27 Mar 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
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28 Mar 1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
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28 Mar 1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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29 Mar 1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
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30 Mar 1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 performances
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30 Mar 1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
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31 Mar 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
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31 Mar 1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
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31 Mar 1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
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31 Mar 1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
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01 Apr 1986 Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy
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01 Apr 1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
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01 Apr 1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
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01 Apr 1986 Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attacks a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
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02 Apr 1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
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02 Apr 1986 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
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02 Apr 1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
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02 Apr 1986 Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
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03 Apr 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
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04 Apr 1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
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05 Apr 1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
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05 Apr 1986 US soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
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05 Apr 1986 Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
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06 Apr 1986 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
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07 Apr 1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
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08 Apr 1986 Clint Eastwood elected Mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
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09 Apr 1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
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10 Apr 1986 "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
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10 Apr 1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
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10 Apr 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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11 Apr 1986 A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
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11 Apr 1986 Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
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11 Apr 1986 KXA-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KRPM
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11 Apr 1986 Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days
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11 Apr 1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 million km
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11 Apr 1986 A Canadain 1921 50
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12 Apr 1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
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13 Apr 1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
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13 Apr 1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
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13 Apr 1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
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13 Apr 1986 50th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
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13 Apr 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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14 Apr 1986 The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
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14 Apr 1986 In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
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14 Apr 1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
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14 Apr 1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards George Strait, Alabama, Reba McEntire
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14 Apr 1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
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14 Apr 1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
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15 Apr 1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
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15 Apr 1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
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15 Apr 1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs England in Antigua Test Cricket
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16 Apr 1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV
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16 Apr 1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
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17 Apr 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
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17 Apr 1986 Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted.
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17 Apr 1986 The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
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17 Apr 1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
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17 Apr 1986 Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
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18 Apr 1986 Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA
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18 Apr 1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
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19 Apr 1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Apr 1986 Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
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20 Apr 1986 Michael Jrdan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
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20 Apr 1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
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20 Apr 1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
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20 Apr 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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21 Apr 1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona)
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21 Apr 1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
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21 Apr 1986 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55
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21 Apr 1986 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51
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22 Apr 1986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
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22 Apr 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 Apr 1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
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23 Apr 1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7 seconds)
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25 Apr 1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
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25 Apr 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
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26 Apr 1986 Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
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26 Apr 1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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26 Apr 1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
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26 Apr 1986 Baseball game between California Angels & Minnesota Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
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26 Apr 1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
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26 Apr 1986 France performs nuclear test
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26 Apr 1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
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27 Apr 1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
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27 Apr 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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27 Apr 1986 The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
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27 Apr 1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
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28 Apr 1986 High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
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28 Apr 1986 The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
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28 Apr 1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
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29 Apr 1986 Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
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29 Apr 1986 A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
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29 Apr 1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
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29 Apr 1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
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30 Apr 1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
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30 Apr 1986 Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
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01 May 1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
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01 May 1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
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01 May 1986 Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
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02 May 1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
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02 May 1986 Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
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02 May 1986 Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster
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03 May 1986 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
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03 May 1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
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03 May 1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR
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03 May 1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
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03 May 1986 New York Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
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03 May 1986 Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
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04 May 1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
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05 May 1986 Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
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06 May 1986 Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup
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06 May 1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American Bishop
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07 May 1986 Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
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07 May 1986 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
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10 May 1986 "Rock Me Amadeus, " by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart
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10 May 1986 Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Cr
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11 May 1986 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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12 May 1986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
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12 May 1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced and unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California
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12 May 1986 NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
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12 May 1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
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14 May 1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
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14 May 1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th homerun passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
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15 May 1986 Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.
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15 May 1986 Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
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16 May 1986 "Top Gun, " premieres
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16 May 1986 The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
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16 May 1986 "Top Gun" premieres
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16 May 1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
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16 May 1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
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17 May 1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
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17 May 1986 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
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18 May 1986 "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 performances
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18 May 1986 Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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18 May 1986 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
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18 May 1986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
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18 May 1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
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19 May 1986 The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
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19 May 1986 Anti-apartheid activist H
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20 May 1986 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
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20 May 1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
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21 May 1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
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22 May 1986 Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
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23 May 1986 US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
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24 May 1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel
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24 May 1986 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
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24 May 1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl
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24 May 1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours
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24 May 1986 Stanley Cup: Montr
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25 May 1986 30,000,000 watch "Live Aid, " a massive benefit concert
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25 May 1986 7,000,000 Americans form "Hands Across America"
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25 May 1986 Hands Across America takes place.
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25 May 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
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25 May 1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
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25 May 1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
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25 May 1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
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25 May 1986 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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25 May 1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
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26 May 1986 The European Community adopts the European flag.
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27 May 1986 Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
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27 May 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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27 May 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
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27 May 1986 President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
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28 May 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
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28 May 1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
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29 May 1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
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30 May 1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
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30 May 1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500
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30 May 1986 France performs nuclear test
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01 Jun 1986 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
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02 Jun 1986 New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
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02 Jun 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
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03 Jun 1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
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04 Jun 1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
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04 Jun 1986 Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
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05 Jun 1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
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06 Jun 1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
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07 Jun 1986 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
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07 Jun 1986 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63)
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07 Jun 1986 Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble
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07 Jun 1986 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
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08 Jun 1986 "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
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08 Jun 1986 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
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08 Jun 1986 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
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08 Jun 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
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08 Jun 1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
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09 Jun 1986 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
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09 Jun 1986 Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
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09 Jun 1986 Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
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09 Jun 1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
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10 Jun 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
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11 Jun 1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
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12 Jun 1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
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13 Jun 1986 President Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
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13 Jun 1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
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15 Jun 1986 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club - New York
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15 Jun 1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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15 Jun 1986 Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
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15 Jun 1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
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16 Jun 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
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17 Jun 1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
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18 Jun 1986 De Havilland Twin Otter and Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
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18 Jun 1986 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
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18 Jun 1986 Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs vs. Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
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18 Jun 1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
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18 Jun 1986 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
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19 Jun 1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
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20 Jun 1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
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20 Jun 1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
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21 Jun 1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
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21 Jun 1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
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21 Jun 1986 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals
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21 Jun 1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
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21 Jun 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
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22 Jun 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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22 Jun 1986 The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
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22 Jun 1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
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23 Jun 1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
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23 Jun 1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
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24 Jun 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
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24 Jun 1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
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24 Jun 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
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25 Jun 1986 Former Belgium Premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
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25 Jun 1986 Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
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27 Jun 1986 Robby Thompson (San Francisco) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
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27 Jun 1986 Anne White shocks Wimbeldon by wearing only a body stocking
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27 Jun 1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
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27 Jun 1986 US informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack
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27 Jun 1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
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28 Jun 1986 Irish population condemns divorce
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28 Jun 1986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
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29 Jun 1986 Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
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29 Jun 1986 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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29 Jun 1986 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
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29 Jun 1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
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30 Jun 1986 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
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30 Jun 1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
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02 Jul 1986 After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
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02 Jul 1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
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02 Jul 1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
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02 Jul 1986 Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
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03 Jul 1986 President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
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05 Jul 1986 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
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05 Jul 1986 Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
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05 Jul 1986 Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
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06 Jul 1986 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
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06 Jul 1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
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06 Jul 1986 Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
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06 Jul 1986 Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
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06 Jul 1986 Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
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07 Jul 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
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07 Jul 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
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07 Jul 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
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07 Jul 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
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07 Jul 1986 US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
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08 Jul 1986 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance
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08 Jul 1986 Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
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09 Jul 1986 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
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09 Jul 1986 The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
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11 Jul 1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
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11 Jul 1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
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11 Jul 1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
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14 Jul 1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
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14 Jul 1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
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14 Jul 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
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14 Jul 1986 Jane Geddes beats Sally Little to win golf's US Women's Open
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14 Jul 1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
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14 Jul 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
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14 Jul 1986 Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
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15 Jul 1986 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
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15 Jul 1986 All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
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15 Jul 1986 AL beats NL for 2nd time in 15 yrs, winning 57th All-Star Game 3-2
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17 Jul 1986 Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
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18 Jul 1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
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18 Jul 1986 Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
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18 Jul 1986 A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
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18 Jul 1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
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19 Jul 1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)
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19 Jul 1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Jul 1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
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19 Jul 1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
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20 Jul 1986 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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21 Jul 1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
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21 Jul 1986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
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22 Jul 1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
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23 Jul 1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli Premier Simon Peres
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23 Jul 1986 In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
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23 Jul 1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
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24 Jul 1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
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25 Jul 1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
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26 Jul 1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
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27 Jul 1986 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
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27 Jul 1986 24th Tennis Federation Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia 3-0 in Prague
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27 Jul 1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
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28 Jul 1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
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28 Jul 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
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28 Jul 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith
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29 Jul 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
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29 Jul 1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire
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29 Jul 1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
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01 Aug 1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
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01 Aug 1986 Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
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02 Aug 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
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02 Aug 1986 TODAY / PC born today
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03 Aug 1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
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03 Aug 1986 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
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04 Aug 1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
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05 Aug 1986 Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout
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05 Aug 1986 US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
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06 Aug 1986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) and Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
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06 Aug 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
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06 Aug 1986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs. Baltimore (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
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06 Aug 1986 A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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07 Aug 1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
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07 Aug 1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
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08 Aug 1986 Record 3 grandslams in a game- (Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
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09 Aug 1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 performances
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10 Aug 1986 "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
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10 Aug 1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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10 Aug 1986 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
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10 Aug 1986 Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway, New York City
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10 Aug 1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
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10 Aug 1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
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11 Aug 1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
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11 Aug 1986 Bob Tway wins PGA championship
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12 Aug 1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
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12 Aug 1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
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13 Aug 1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
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14 Aug 1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
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14 Aug 1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
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15 Aug 1986 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger
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16 Aug 1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
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17 Aug 1986 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
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17 Aug 1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
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17 Aug 1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson
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17 Aug 1986 Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
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17 Aug 1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
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18 Aug 1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
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18 Aug 1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
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18 Aug 1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
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18 Aug 1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
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19 Aug 1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
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20 Aug 1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
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20 Aug 1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in the 9th
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21 Aug 1986 "Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
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21 Aug 1986 Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
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21 Aug 1986 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleveland Indians
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21 Aug 1986 Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
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21 Aug 1986 Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746
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21 Aug 1986 With 2 outs in the 6th inning, The Red Sox score 11 runs
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22 Aug 1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
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22 Aug 1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
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23 Aug 1986 "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
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23 Aug 1986 Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
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24 Aug 1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
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26 Aug 1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
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27 Aug 1986 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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28 Aug 1986 Bolivia President Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
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28 Aug 1986 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
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28 Aug 1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
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29 Aug 1986 Morocco King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
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29 Aug 1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
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30 Aug 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
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30 Aug 1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
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31 Aug 1986 Aeromexico DC-9 and small plane collide in LA, killing 82
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31 Aug 1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
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31 Aug 1986 Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
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31 Aug 1986 The Soviet passenger liner  Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
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31 Aug 1986 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82
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31 Aug 1986 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel
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01 Sep 1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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01 Sep 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
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01 Sep 1986 Texas Rangers O McDowell and Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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02 Sep 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
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03 Sep 1986 Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
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04 Sep 1986 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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04 Sep 1986 Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
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05 Sep 1986 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins
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05 Sep 1986 Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed
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05 Sep 1986 MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins
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05 Sep 1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
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05 Sep 1986 NASA launches DOD-1
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05 Sep 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
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06 Sep 1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
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06 Sep 1986 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
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06 Sep 1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Sep 1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
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06 Sep 1986 In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
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07 Sep 1986 100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
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07 Sep 1986 106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)
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07 Sep 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
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07 Sep 1986 Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
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07 Sep 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
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07 Sep 1986 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean Dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
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07 Sep 1986 Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title
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07 Sep 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
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07 Sep 1986 General Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
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08 Sep 1986 Westinghouse sells Muzak
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09 Sep 1986 New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
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10 Sep 1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
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11 Sep 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
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11 Sep 1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli Premier Peres
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12 Sep 1986 Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
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12 Sep 1986 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
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12 Sep 1986 US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
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13 Sep 1986 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
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13 Sep 1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
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13 Sep 1986 Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee) crowned Miss America
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14 Sep 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
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14 Sep 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
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14 Sep 1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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14 Sep 1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
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15 Sep 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
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16 Sep 1986 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
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17 Sep 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
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17 Sep 1986 Mets clinch NL East Championship
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17 Sep 1986 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets the 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
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17 Sep 1986 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
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19 Sep 1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
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19 Sep 1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
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19 Sep 1986 Dean Jones scores 210 vs. India at Madras
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19 Sep 1986 "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson permieres
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19 Sep 1986 Fed health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
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20 Sep 1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
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21 Sep 1986 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney and Lacey and Michael J Fox win
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21 Sep 1986 Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs. New York Jets (51-45)
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21 Sep 1986 New York Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
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21 Sep 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
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21 Sep 1986 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
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21 Sep 1986 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
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22 Sep 1986 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
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22 Sep 1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
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23 Sep 1986 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
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23 Sep 1986 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
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23 Sep 1986 Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. This record was tied by Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets on September 15, 2014 against the Miami Marlins.
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23 Sep 1986 Houston Astro Jim Deshales sets record of striking out 1st 8 men starting a ball game, beating the LA Dodgers 4-0
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25 Sep 1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
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25 Sep 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
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26 Sep 1986 Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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26 Sep 1986 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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26 Sep 1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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26 Sep 1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
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27 Sep 1986 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
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28 Sep 1986 Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yards
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28 Sep 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
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29 Sep 1986 "Airwolf, " TV Adventure; moves to USA
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29 Sep 1986 "Designing Women, " TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
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29 Sep 1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
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29 Sep 1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
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29 Sep 1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
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29 Sep 1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
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30 Sep 1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
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30 Sep 1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
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02 Oct 1986 Failed assassination attempt on India Premier Rajiv Gandhi
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02 Oct 1986 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
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02 Oct 1986 New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
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02 Oct 1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
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03 Oct 1986 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
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03 Oct 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
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03 Oct 1986 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
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04 Oct 1986 New York Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
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04 Oct 1986 Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
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04 Oct 1986 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
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05 Oct 1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
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05 Oct 1986 Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
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06 Oct 1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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07 Oct 1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
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08 Oct 1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
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08 Oct 1986 RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
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09 Oct 1986 "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London
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09 Oct 1986 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
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09 Oct 1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
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09 Oct 1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera receives its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
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10 Oct 1986 An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
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10 Oct 1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
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10 Oct 1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
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11 Oct 1986 Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
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11 Oct 1986 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
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12 Oct 1986 California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
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12 Oct 1986 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
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13 Oct 1986 20th Country Music Association Award
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13 Oct 1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
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13 Oct 1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) (World Series #83)
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14 Oct 1986 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence / racism)
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14 Oct 1986 Tim Kides of West NY, New Jersey performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
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14 Oct 1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
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14 Oct 1986 The IOC decides to stagger the Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
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15 Oct 1986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
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16 Oct 1986 "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances
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16 Oct 1986 Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
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16 Oct 1986 Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
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16 Oct 1986 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
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16 Oct 1986 US govt closes down due to budget problems
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17 Oct 1986 Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
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17 Oct 1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
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19 Oct 1986 "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 performances
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19 Oct 1986 "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances
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19 Oct 1986 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (vs. India, Bombay)
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19 Oct 1986 Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
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19 Oct 1986 USSR expells 5 US diplomats
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20 Oct 1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
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21 Oct 1986 IBM re-forms in South Africa
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21 Oct 1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
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21 Oct 1986 US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
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21 Oct 1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
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22 Oct 1986 "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
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24 Oct 1986 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
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24 Oct 1986 Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
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25 Oct 1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
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25 Oct 1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
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25 Oct 1986 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
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26 Oct 1986 "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
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27 Oct 1986 New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
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27 Oct 1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
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27 Oct 1986 The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
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28 Oct 1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
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28 Oct 1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
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29 Oct 1986 Kirk Muller scores New Jersey Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
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29 Oct 1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
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29 Oct 1986 West Indies all out for 53 vs. Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
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29 Oct 1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
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30 Oct 1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
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01 Nov 1986 Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
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02 Nov 1986 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
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02 Nov 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
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03 Nov 1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
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03 Nov 1986 Joaquim Chissano elected President Mozambique
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03 Nov 1986 John Lennon releases "Menlove Avenue" album
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03 Nov 1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
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03 Nov 1986 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
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03 Nov 1986 Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
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03 Nov 1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
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05 Nov 1986 USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
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06 Nov 1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
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06 Nov 1986 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
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08 Nov 1986 "Song & Dance" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
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09 Nov 1986 Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
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09 Nov 1986 Pakistan all out for 77 vs. West Indies at Lahore
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10 Nov 1986 Bangladesh Constitution restored
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10 Nov 1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill
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11 Nov 1986 Suriname government proclaims gold purification
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12 Nov 1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
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13 Nov 1986 Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
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13 Nov 1986 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
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13 Nov 1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
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13 Nov 1986 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
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14 Nov 1986 Doubleday Publishing sells New York Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
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14 Nov 1986 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
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14 Nov 1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
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15 Nov 1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
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17 Nov 1986 "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
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18 Nov 1986 Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
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19 Nov 1986 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
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20 Nov 1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
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20 Nov 1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
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21 Nov 1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution
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21 Nov 1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
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22 Nov 1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title
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22 Nov 1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
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22 Nov 1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
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24 Nov 1986 "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 48 performances
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24 Nov 1986 Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
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24 Nov 1986 Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
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25 Nov 1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
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26 Nov 1986 Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
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28 Nov 1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
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28 Nov 1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
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30 Nov 1986 "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 performances
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30 Nov 1986 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
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30 Nov 1986 Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
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01 Dec 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
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02 Dec 1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
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03 Dec 1986 Sri Lanka all out 55 vs. WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
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04 Dec 1986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
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06 Dec 1986 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Florida (QB)
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07 Dec 1986 Juli Inkster / Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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08 Dec 1986 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
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10 Dec 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
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10 Dec 1986 France performs nuclear test
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11 Dec 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
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11 Dec 1986 South Africa censors press
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12 Dec 1986 Microlite aircraft circles world non-stop
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12 Dec 1986 David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 vs England at Adelaide
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12 Dec 1986 James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champion Tim Witherspoon at Madison Square Garden
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12 Dec 1986 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
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12 Dec 1986 South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
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14 Dec 1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world
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15 Dec 1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
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15 Dec 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
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15 Dec 1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi Pakistan
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16 Dec 1986 Gennady Kolbin replaces Dinmukhamed Konayev as First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, prompting the Jeltoqsan protests which began the next day.
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17 Dec 1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
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17 Dec 1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
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17 Dec 1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
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18 Dec 1986 Mr Gates serves as acting director of CIA
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19 Dec 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
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19 Dec 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
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19 Dec 1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
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19 Dec 1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service & fined $500
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20 Dec 1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
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21 Dec 1986 Amy Alcott / Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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21 Dec 1986 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
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22 Dec 1986 India score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
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23 Dec 1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
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23 Dec 1986 Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
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24 Dec 1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
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24 Dec 1986 Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
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26 Dec 1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
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26 Dec 1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
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26 Dec 1986 Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
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26 Dec 1986 Hijackers take over an Iraqi Airways Boeing 737 with 91 people on board during a flight from Baghdad to Amman - it lands in Arar, Saudi Arabia where it explodes, killing 62 people.
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27 Dec 1986 "Les Miserables" opens at Kennedy Center, Washington DC
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27 Dec 1986 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and the Restless wins
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28 Dec 1986 Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors, wins Davis Cup
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30 Dec 1986 US begins Military exercises in Honduras
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31 Dec 1986 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
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31 Dec 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
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31 Dec 1986 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
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