February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
Day of death August 8, 1986
The temperature on August 8, 1986 was between 9.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). 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.
February 22 » Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
February 28 » Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
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.
October 9 » The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
October 19 » The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
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