Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
Tag: 1986
29 April 1986
Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster’]
9 February 1986
Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet’]
23 January 1986
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly…
27 March 1986
A police office is killed as a car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia. We make an estimated 35,000 decisions a…
22 February 1986
The People Power Revolution starts in the Philippines. EDSA People Power revolution timeline: Day 1 February 22, 1986 Midnight Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and…
29 April 1986
Chernobyl disaster is detected by the west. The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. It occurred on…
14 April 1986
92 people are killed in Bangladesh when the heaviest hailstones ever recorded (~1 kilogram) fall.
27 March 1986
In Melbourne, Australia, a car bomb explodes at the Russell Street Police HQ killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.