Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO Sighting Over Alaska, November 17, 1986
Date: November 17, 1986
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Date: November 17, 1986
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An AerovΓas Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, PetΓ©n, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board. Date: January 18, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 18 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1986People Power…
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 β π Other events on April…
Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'Γ©tat led by General Justin Lekhanya. Date: January 20, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 20 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Gorbachev Releases Andrei Sakharov from Exile,…
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city. Date: September 13, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 13 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More…
Space Shuttle program: Congressman and future NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist. Date: January 12, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 12 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from…
The Jeltoqsan riots erupt in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, in response to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of ethnic Kazakh Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and his replacement with Gennady Kolbin, an ethnic Russian from the Russian SFSR. Date: December 16, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events…