Date: February 8, 1986
The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. Date: March 24, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 24 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Hands Across America Event Takes Place,…
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Date: August 6, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 6 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)…
The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Date: February 16, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 16 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Conservative Protestors Attack Dartmouth Anti-Apartheid Shanty Town, January 21, 1986European Community Adopts…
Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. Date: April 2, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April…
A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people. Date: March 27, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 27 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986U.S. Supreme Court Bowers v….
The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years. Date: February 20, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 20 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Communist Party of Nepal…