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The Nation 1986
April 18 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB May 3 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
January 20 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
May 25 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York
Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
September 11 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
U.S. Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA
White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
U.S. Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
Chemistry—Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Charles Polanyi Physiology or Medicine—Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini Literature—Wole Soyinka Peace—Elie Wiesel Economics—James Buchanan Jr
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"The sudden turn of fortune's wheel came when a confident Marcos, who had never lost a vote in his life, called a snap election. He was thus hoping to satisfy the Reagan Administration's demands that he become more democratic. But Marcos' plans for victory were upset by a slight, bespectacled mother of five, who had entered politics only two months earlier. When she went to fill out her application for the presidency, Corazon Aquino had nothing to enter under OCCUPATION but "Housewife." The last office for which the soft-spoken widow had been chosen was valedictorian of her sixty-grade class. In fact, her chief, if not her only, political strengths seemed to be her innocence of politics and the moral symbolism of her name. In Spanish, her first name meant "heart"; in Philippine politics, her second signified "martyred opposition," in memory of her late husband Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino, once Marcos' chief rival, who was slain on his return from exile in 1983, Cory Aquino, at 53, stood in effect on a platform of faith, hope and charity." Time person of the year Corazon Aquino The World 1986
Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras
Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Iceland U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile The Class of 1986
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