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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
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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 19, 1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
- February 27, 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- March 31, 1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- April 2, 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”, announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
- May 2, 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster
- August 21, 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
- October 21, 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
- November 21, 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Who Were Born On 1986?
- January 26, 1986 – Kian Kazemi, Filipino-Persian actor
- January 28, 1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
- February 5, 1986 – Janne Korpi, Finnish snowboarder and harness racer
- April 4, 1986 – Aiden McGeady, Irish footballer
- May 17, 1986 – Timo Simonlatser, Estonian skier
- July 23, 1986 – Nelson Philippe, French race car driver
- August 30, 1986 – Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
- November 17, 1986 – Alexis Vastine, French boxer (d. 2015)
- November 21, 1986 – Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player