January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of death August 2, 1986
The temperature on August 2, 1986 was between 10.2 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 2 » Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best 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.
August 31 » Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
November 2 » U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
November 5 » USSRentz, USSReeves and USSOldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
November 26 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
Day of cremation August 5, 1986
The temperature on August 5, 1986 was between 9.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 12 » Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
February 19 » Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
July 9 » The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
September 7 » Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
October 9 » The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
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