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1986 Year In Review - Do You Remember?

Science goes tragically awry, as the space shuttle Challenger explodes seconds after lift-off and the Soviet nuclear power plant at Chernobyl has a partial meltdown. Politics heats up in the Philippines with Ferdinand Marcos out and Corazon Aquino in; Libya takes a direct hit from U.S. fighter planes, and the American public meets Lt. Col. Oliver North for the first time.

News Headlines

•   Challenger Explodes 30 Seconds After Lift Off, Seven Crew Die.
•   Gorbachev Asks "Radical Reform", Condemns Former Leadership.
•   Dow Tops 1,800.
•   Austrian Presidential Candidate Kurt Waldheim Accused Of Nazi Past.
•   Nuclear Accident At Chernobyl Endangers USSR And Europe.
•   Chief Justice Warren Burger Resigns, William Rehnquist Is Nominate.
•   $70 Million In Aid To Contras Is Approved By Congress.
•   Panamanian Army Chief manual NoriegaIs Accused Of Drug Dealing.
•   1,000% Increase In Aids cases Is Predicted By 1991.

In The News

•   Reagan halts trade to Libya, calls Qaddafi "Barbarian".
•   Marcos ousted from the Philippines.
•   Aquino sworn in as Philippine president.
•   Haitian dictator "Baby Doc Duvalier" is overthrown.
•   Soviets launch Mir.
•   American killed as terrorists capture cruise ship : Background/Klinghoffer
•   Oil falls to $11 a barrel.
•   Orson Welles dies.
•   Geneva summit for Reagan and Gorbachev.
•   Inside trader Ivan Boesky pays $100 million fine.
•   Earthquakes devastate Mexico City.
•   Deaths; Desi Arnaz, James Cagney, Benny Godman, Cary Grant.
•   Roger Clemens (Boston, AL) strikes out a record 20 in a row.
•   133 killed in Delta crash in Dallas.
•   Mike Tyson, 20, KO's Trevor Berbick, to become the youngest
    heavyweight champion.
•   Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection.
•   Voyager 2 spacecraft reports secrets of Uranus.
•   Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
•   Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden shot dead.
•   Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's service as Nazi army officer
    revealed.
•   Haley's comet yields information on return visit.
•   U.S. planes attack Libyan “terrorist centers”.
•   Desmond Tutu elected archbishop in South Africa.
•   Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station.
•   Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights.
•   Supreme Court voids automatic provisions of budget-balancing law.
•   House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting administration's “star
    wars” policy.
•   Congress overrides Reagan veto of stiff sanctions against South Africa.
•   Congress approves immigration bill barring hiring of illegal aliens, with
    amnesty provision.
•   Reagan signs $11.7-billion budget reduction measure and major
    changes in U.S. tax code.
•   $30 million secret weapons sale to Iran is revealed (Nov. 6 et seq.);
    Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales
    (Nov. 19); diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras
    revealed (Nov. 25); Colonel Oliver North and National Security Chief John
    Poindexter are implicated, in the Iran-Contra 0peration.

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