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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.
•  February 27, 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
•  March 24, 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
•  March 27, 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
•  May 16, 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.
•  August 31, 1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
•  September 5, 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
•  September 6, 1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal’s organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
•  November 26, 1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

•  January 29, 1986 – Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin footballer
•  April 29, 1986 – Renee Alway, American model
•  August 7, 1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
•  August 16, 1986 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
•  October 12, 1986 – Sergio Peter, German footballer
•  October 21, 1986 – Natalee Holloway, American missing person (missing since 2005)
•  October 22, 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
•  November 26, 1986 – Bauke Mollema, Dutch cyclist
•  December 7, 1986 – Jonathan Gill, English singer (JLS)
•  December 29, 1986 – Joe Anyon, English footballer