1986

1986 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.

Events

January

• January 1 – Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.
• January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

February

• February 7 – Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France, leaving Haiti in chaos.

March

• March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

April

• April 26 – In the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl disaster occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

May

• May 25 – Hands Across America takes place.

June

• June 29 – Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

July

• July 5 – The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishment.

August

• August 20 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.

September

• September 7 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.

October

• October 9 – United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.

November

• November 3 – The Iran-Contra affair begins to come to light.

December

• December 12 – South Africa repeals the last of its apartheid laws.

Births

• January 17 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer
• March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
• April 3 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
• May 2 – Lily Allen, English singer
• June 13 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses
• July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• August 25 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
• September 16 – Ian Harding, American actor
• October 21 – Kim Kardashian, American television personality
• November 22 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter
• December 13 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter

Deaths

• January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress
• February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player
• March 14 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor
• April 23 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-American film director
• May 12 – Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-British actress
• June 23 – Sir Moses Finley, American-born British classical scholar
• July 3 – Rudy Vallée, American singer
• August 2 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer
• September 28 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 22 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 22 – Scatman Crothers, American actor
• December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor

1986 Resources
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