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1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
In March 1986, the United States, asserting the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) limit to territorial waters according to international law, sent a carrier task force to the region. Libya responded with aggressive counter-maneuvers on 24 March that led to a naval engagement in the Gulf of Sidra.
April 5 – 1986 West Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing three and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible. April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi ...
March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) ... 1910 – László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986) [99] 1910 ...
March – Ford launches a new generation of its big-selling Escort and Orion ranges. 4 March – The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping.It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress.
March 30 – James Cagney, US actor, singer and dancer, 86. March 31 – O'Kelly Isley of the Isley Brothers, 48 (heart attack) April 1 – Donald Grobe, operatic tenor, 56. April 3 – Peter Pears, opera singer and partner of Benjamin Britten, 75.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
In 1986 a few months after February a music video starring various artists was released called, "Handog ng Pilipino Sa Mundo". It was written by Apo Hiking Society singer Jim Paredes and performed by numerous artists, and showed martial law heroes Jose W. Diokno, Lorenzo M. Tañada , Rene Saguisag , Butz Aquino , Joe Burgos, and Pres. Aquino ...