Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Date: November 25, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 25 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair. Date: November 21, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 21 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
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…
USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949. Date: November 5, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 5 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States. Date: November 3, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 3 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. Date: November 3, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 3 📅 Events on this day in…
Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity. Date: November 2, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 2 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. Date: October 29, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 29 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today)
The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. Date: October 27, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 27 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅…