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1986 Calendar
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1986 Historical Event(s)
- January 20, 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- January 24, 1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81500 km of Uranus.
- January 28, 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
- February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
- April 20, 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- October 10, 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- October 16, 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
- November 3, 1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- November 21, 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Who Were Born On 1986?
- March 2, 1986 – Jon D'Aversa, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 28, 1986 – Yoon Joon-Soo, South Korean footballer
- June 12, 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
- June 19, 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
- August 11, 1986 – Richard Keogh, Irish footballer
- August 20, 1986 – Robert Clark, Canadian actor
- August 28, 1986 – Florence Welch, British singer (Florence + the Machine)
- September 19, 1986 – Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
- October 1, 1986 – Sayaka, Japanese singer
- December 24, 1986 – Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player