About the day » Friday August 1, 1986Calender converter
July 31, 1986Died on Friday August 1, 1986
- Adriana Zon, van (86)
- Bartholomeus Hubertus Bosch (64), Kerkrade
- Derk Hidding (82)
- Cornelia Alberta Sepers (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Antonia van Zummeren (92)
- Earl Herbert Cooksey (81), Forest City, Holt MO
- Anna Drenth (91), Grand Rapids Michigan ( Usa)
- anne van dijk (70), den andel
- Bernardus Antonius Josephus Hofhuis (71), Deventer
- Anna Catharina van der Sterren (86), Nunhem, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from August 1, 1986 at Delpher
Born on August 1
- 1985 » Adam Jones, American baseball player
- 1985 » Cole Kimball, American baseball player
- 1985 » Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
- 1985 » Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
- 1985 » Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
- 1986 » Andrew Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 » Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986 » Damien Allen, English footballer
- 1986 » Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1986 » Mike Wallace, American football player
Died on August 1
- 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
- 1980 » Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1980 » Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1981 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- 1982 » T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
- 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
- 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
- 1996 » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
- 1996 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
Names that were popular for boys in 1986
- Johannes
- Jan
- Michael
- Cornelis
- Willem
- Hendrik
- Thomas
- Mark
- Robert
- Pieter
- Maria
- David
- Peter
- Alexander
- Jeroen
- Kevin
Names that were popular for girls in 1986
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Elisabeth
- Laura
- Elizabeth
- Anna
- Cornelia
- Adriana
- Linda
- Anne
- Catharina
- Louise
- Nicole
- Charlotte
- Kim
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1986
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- 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.
- The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
- 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.
- May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
- May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
- September 23 » Houston Astros' Jim Deshaies sets a record, striking out the first eight batters he faces against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- November 29 » The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
The weather on Friday August 1, 1986
The temperature on August 1, 1986 was between 13.7 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI