Date: October 27, 1986
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 crashes into the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range near the Mexican town of Maravatío, killing 167. Date: March 31, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 31 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Reagan and Gorbachev Meet…
Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits. Date: May 7, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 7 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Voyager 2 Closest Approach to Uranus – January 24, 1986Aeroflot Flight…
Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre (12 mi) range. Date: August 21, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986MV Amazon Venture Oil Spill…
The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, each weighing 1 kilogram (2.2 lb), fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. Date: April 14, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 14 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Gorbachev Releases Andrei Sakharov from Exile,…
Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. Date: February 7, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 7 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Melbourne Russell Street Police HQ Car Bomb Kills Officer,…
High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. Date: April 28, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 28 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…