32 events found for 1986
A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of…
A Sudan Airways Fokker F27 Friendship is shot down near Malakal in present day South Sudan, killing 60.
In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots and kills 14 of his co-workers and then commits…
Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre…
Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on…
The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev,…
Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom…
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; five of Pinochet's bodyguards are…
Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, is indicted on charges of espionage by the Soviet…
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing…