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1986 Calendar

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•  February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  February 7, 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
•  April 20, 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
•  June 4, 1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
•  August 21, 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
•  September 7, 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
•  October 19, 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
•  October 21, 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
•  November 25, 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
•  November 26, 1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

•  January 26, 1986 – Hero, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
•  March 25, 1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player
•  April 11, 1986 – Stephanie Pratt, American reality TV personality
•  May 1, 1986 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
•  June 28, 1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer
•  August 16, 1986 – Chris Reynolds, Welsh DJ
•  October 9, 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
•  October 20, 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
•  October 23, 1986 – Briana Evigan, American actress
•  December 16, 1986 – Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player