About the day » Saturday September 20, 1986Calender converter

• Stephanie Jean BALK, Albuquerque, NM († 2009)
• Koen Gillis, Beveren (B)

• Catharina Geertruida de Koning (87), Lisse
• Edward Maria Van den Abeele (65), Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• Celina Dorethea Edmonda Spiessens (78), Bornem, België
• Alida Theodora Omes (78), Johannesburg, Zuid Afrika
• Arthur Leslie Neuharth (58), Copperas Cove, Coryell, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna de Jong
• David Jongepier (81), Den Helder
• Catharina Maria Francina Erkens (86), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Verkaik (82), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aplonia Cristina van Essen (67), Lage Mierde

• 1984 » Brian Joubert, French figure skater
• 1985 » Ian Desmond, American baseball player
• 1985 » Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 » İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Aldis Hodge, American actor
• 1986 » Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1986 » Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Gain, South Korean singer
• 1987 » Jack Lawless, American drummer
• 1987 » Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player

• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 » Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
• 1993 » Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)

• 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.
• March 3 » The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• April 5 » Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
• April 26 » A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
• August 20 » In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
• September 7 » Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.

The temperature on September 20, 1986 was between 2.0 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.