Date: April 28, 1986
Conservative protestors attack a mock shanty town that had been erected on the Green at Dartmouth College as part of anti-apartheid protests. Date: January 21, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 21 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Operation El Dorado…
The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni. Date: January 26, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 26 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts First…
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) More events…
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 1986King Fahd Causeway Officially Opens in…
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 1986Los Angeles Public Library Fire Destroys 400,000 Books -…
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 1986FBI Miami…