National Resistance Movement Topples Tito Okello Government in Uganda, January 25, 1986

Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record. Date: November 6, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 6 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day…

Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people. Date: October 20, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 20 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Netherlands-Isles of Scilly…

An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declare independence for a state of Khalistan. Date: April 29, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 29 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986People Power Revolution: Marcos Flees, Corazon Aquino Becomes…

In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots and kills 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. Date: August 20, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 20 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Bangladesh’s Heaviest Hailstones Kill 92 in…

The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. Date: November 17, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 17 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Gateway Bridge Opens in Brisbane, Australia…

Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. Date: May 3, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 3 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Margaret Thatcher…