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Glenbard
East High School
Class
of 1986 |

1986
Year In Review - Do You Remember?
Includes
1986 and some 1985 news 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
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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