Date: April 17, 1986
📅 Events on this day in 1986
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Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people. Date: July 2, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 2 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Los Angeles Public…
In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). Date: October 21, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 21 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Voyager 2 Closest Approach to Uranus -…
Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, making it one of the worst rail accidents in Canada. Date: February 8, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 8 📅 Events on this day in 1986…
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky. Date: December 19, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 19 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Sarbat Khalsa Declares Khalistan Independence April 29, 1986People…
The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Date: February 16, 1986 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 16 📅 Events on this day in 1986 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1986Patrick Morrow First to Climb All Seven Summits, May 7, 1986Loscoe Gas…
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 → 📅 Other events on April…