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1986 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1986 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1986

• February 1, 1986 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 7, 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• February 9, 1986 – Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
• February 16, 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• February 22, 1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
• February 25, 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines’ first woman president.
• April 20, 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
• May 3, 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
• June 22, 1986 – The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2–1 and go on to win the world cup.
• August 21, 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

Who Were Born On 1986?

• January 12, 1986 – Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• February 7, 1986 – Pippa Wilson, English sailor
• April 23, 1986 – Alysia Montaño, American runner
• May 11, 1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
• June 22, 1986 – Ramin Ott, Samoan footballer
• June 30, 1986 – Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
• July 1, 1986 – Julian Prochnow, German footballer
• August 1, 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
• September 19, 1986 – Ryan Succop, American football player
• October 9, 1986 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer