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MCMLXXXVI ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the
Gregorian Calendar .
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- April 2 - A bomb explodes on a TWA flight from Rome to Athens - 4 dead
- April 5 - In the Terroristic La Belle Discotheque Bombing the West-Berlin discotheque, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people. Libya is held responsible.
- April 13 -- Pope John Paul II officially visits the Synagogue Of Rome — the first time a modern Pope had visited a synagogue.
- April 14 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) Hailstone s fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh , killing 92.
- April 15 - At least 15 people died after USA planes bombed targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli , and the Benghazi region as part of Operation El Dorado Canyon
- April 17 - British journalist John McCarthy kidnapped in Beirut (released in August 1991 ) - three others are found dead, Revolutionary Cells claims responsibility in retaliation for the US bombing of Libya.
- April 17 - Treaty signed, ending Three Hundred And Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles Of Scilly .
- April 17 - The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv .
- April 26 - In Ukraine , one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Plant explodes creating the world's worst Nuclear Disaster . 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more died from cancer in later years, many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of Radioactive material, vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus rendered uninhabitable.
- April 27 - " Captain Midnight " interrupts HBO satellite feed
- August 6 - A low pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney .
- August 18 - Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
- August 19 - Picasso painting ''Weeping Woman'' is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne , Australia . It had been stolen two weeks earlier.
- August 20 - In Edmond, Oklahoma , United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing Suicide .
- August 21 - The Lake Nyos Tragedy occurs, killing nearly 2000 people.
- August 31 - The Soviet passenger liner '' Admiral Nakhimov '' collides with the bulk carrier ''Pyotr Vasev'' in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.
- August 31 - An Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California , killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.
- August 31 - Cargo ship '' Khian Sea '' departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It will wander the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.
- October 1 - President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department Of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947 .
- October 9 - United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through Impeachment . Michael Crawford , British actor/singer was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen, as well as receiving his second Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Phantom Of The Opera .
- October 10 - An Earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador , El Salvador , killing an estimated 1,500 people.
- meet in Reykjavík , Iceland , in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate Missile arsenals in Europe (the talks break down in failure).
- October 26 - Bus Deregulation in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.
- October 27 - The New York Mets win the Major League Baseball World Series , beating the Boston Red Sox in seven games.
- October 28 - The centennial of the Statue Of Liberty 's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor .
- October 28 - Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the Murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and is given five Life Sentence s.
May 17 -
Tahj Mowry , American actor
- January 1 - Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist (b. 1902 )
- January 4 - Phil Lynott , Lead singer and Bassist of Thin Lizzy (b. 1949 )
- January 7 - Juan Rulfo , Mexican writer (b. 1917 )
- January 8 - Pierre Fournier , French cellist (b. 1906 )
- January 10 - Jaroslav Seifert , Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )
- January 14 - Donna Reed , American actress (b. 1921 )
- January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard , American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911 )
- January 24 - Gordon MacRae , American actor, singer (b. 1921 )
- January 24 - Vincente Minnelli , American director (b. 1903 )
- January 27 - Lilli Palmer , actress (b. 1914 )
- January 28 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger :
- --- Greg Jarvis (b. 1944 )
- --- Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948 )
- --- Ronald McNair (b. 1950 )
- --- Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946 )
- --- Judith Resnik (b. 1949 )
- --- Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939 )
- --- Michael J. Smith (b. 1945 )
- May 3 - Robert Alda , American-born actor (b. 1914 )
- May 4 - Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956 )
- May 9 - Tenzing Norgay , Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914 )
- May 12 - Elisabeth Bergner , Austrian actress (b. 1897 )
- May 15 - Elio De Angelis , Italian race car driver (b. 1958 )
- May 15 - Theodore H. White , American writer (b. 1915 )
- May 23 - Sterling Hayden , American actor (b. 1916 )
- May 25 - Chester Bowles , American politician (b. 1901 )
- May 31 - James Rainwater , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )
- October 5 - James H. Wilkinson , English mathematician (b. 1919 )
- October 9 - Michael Crawford , after opening in Phantom on October 9, 1986, was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen, as well as receiving his second Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
- October 16 - Arthur Grumiaux , Belgian violinist (b. 1921 )
- October 22 - Albert Szent-Györgyi , Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893 )
- October 23 - Edward Adelbert Doisy , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1893 )
- October 25 - Forrest Tucker , American actor (b. 1919 )
- October 26 - Jackson Scholz , American runner (b. 1897 )
- October 28 - Ian Marter , British actor and writer (b. 1944 )
- October 31 - Robert S. Mulliken , American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (b. 1896 )
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