Today in History for February 1986

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 64 of 64

1st - KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
2nd - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs
2nd - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
2nd - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
2nd - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
2nd - Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
3rd - Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
4th - 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
4th - Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
5th - Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
6th - NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
7th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
7th - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
7th - Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
8th - 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
8th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
8th - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
9th - 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
9th - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
264th Pope John Paul II 9th - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
9th - Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
9th - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
9th - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
9th - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
10th - "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
11th - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
11th - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
11th - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
12th - 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
15th - 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
15th - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
15th - Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
16th - "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 perfs
16th - French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
16th - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
16th - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
16th - Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
17th - 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
17th - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
17th - Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
17th - Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
18th - San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
19th - Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
19th - US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
19th - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
20th - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 20th - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
21st - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
21st - Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
22nd - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
23rd - Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
23rd - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
23rd - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
24th - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
24th - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
25th - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
25th - Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
25th - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
25th - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
26th - Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
26th - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
27th - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
28th - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
28th - Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

1st - Lauren Conrad, American TV star
4th - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
5th - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
5th - Billy Sharp, English footballer
5th - Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
6th - Alice Greczyn, American actress
6th - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
7th - Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress
7th - Michael Orozco, American footballer
9th - Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
10th - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
10th - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
13th - Luke Moore, English footballer
13th - Jamie Murray, Scottish tennis player
14th - Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
14th - Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver
14th - Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress
15th - Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
17th - Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
17th - Sandra Nilsson, Swedish model
18th - Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
19th - Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
19th - Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver
19th - Marta, Brazilian footballer
19th - Reon Kadena, Japanese model/actress
19th - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
21st - Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz
21st - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
22nd - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
22nd - Miko Hughes, American actor
23rd - Holly Brook, American musician
23rd - Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
23rd - Jerod Mayo, American Football player
24th - Wojtek Wolski, Polish Ice hockey player
25th - James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
25th - Justin Berfield, American actor
25th - Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
26th - Makelele, Brazilian footballer
26th - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
26th - Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

1st - Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

1st - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1st - Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1st - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
6th - William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies
6th - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
6th - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
7th - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
7th - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
10th - Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83
11th - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
11th - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
12th - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86
12th - Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
16th - Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76
17th - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90
17th - Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies
19th - Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
19th - James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81
19th - Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
20th - Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88
20th - Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58
21st - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but now disputed (b. 1865)
21st - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
24th - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
27th - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
28th - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
28th - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)