Melbourne Russell Street Police HQ Car Bomb Kills Officer, Injures 21 – March 27, 1986
Date: March 27, 1986
Date: March 27, 1986
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13Β inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Date: August 6, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 6 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today)…
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 β π Other events on May 3 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1986People Power…
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 β π Other events on November 3 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1986USS Enterprise First…
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. Date: April 15, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 15 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today)…
The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423. Date: August 31, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 31 π Events on this day in 1986 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Akkaraipattu Massacre: Sri Lankan…
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…