April 1986 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1986 World oil prices dip below US$10 a barrel.
• 02 Apr 1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance).
• 03 Apr 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
• 04 Apr 1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season.
• 05 Apr 1986 Two US soldiers and a Turkish woman killed, 230 injured, in West Berlin discotheque bombing.
• 06 Apr 1986 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley.
• 07 Apr 1986 Wrestlemania II at three locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
• 08 Apr 1986 Clint Eastwood elected Mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
• 09 Apr 1986 Dallas announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
• 10 Apr 1986 Big Deal opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
• 11 Apr 1986 A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
• 12 Apr 1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines.
• 13 Apr 1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic.
• 14 Apr 1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
• 15 Apr 1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
• 16 Apr 1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England.
• 17 Apr 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove
• 18 Apr 1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
• 19 Apr 1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 20 Apr 1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
• 21 Apr 1986 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Arizona).
• 22 Apr 1986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
• 23 Apr 1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
• 25 Apr 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
• 26 Apr 1986 Actor / body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
• 27 Apr 1986 Sweet Charity opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
• 28 Apr 1986 The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
• 29 Apr 1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
• 30 Apr 1986 Ashrita Furman peforms 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles.

Famous Birthday

• Amber Heard

  American actress.

• Amanda Bynes

  American actress.

• Leighton Meester

  American singer and actress.

• Dianna Agron

  American actress.

• Dinara Safina

  Russian tennis player.

• Jenna-Louise Coleman
• Choi Siwon

  Pop Singer.

• Daniel Sharman

  Movie Actor.

• Crystal Harris

  American model and singer.

• Romain Grosjean

  Swiss/French racing driver in the Formula One.

• Jessica Stam

  Canadian model and actress.

• Marshawn Lynch

  American football player.

• Luca Marin

  Italian swimmer.

• Eunhyuk

  Korean singer (Super Junior).

• Stephanie Pratt

  American reality TV personality.

• Laurena Lacey
• Athena Lundberg

  American model.

• Olivia Borlée

  Belgian athlete, of noted family.

• Kelly Bochenko
• Jenna Ushkowitz

  South Korean-American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Simone de Beauvoir

  French philosopher and author (d. 1986).

• Jean Genet

  French writer, a novelist, playwright and poet.

• Erik Bruhn

  Danish dancer, one of the great ballet dancers of the 20th century who set standards of dance excellence and dramatic intensity.

• Bessie Head

  Writer.

• Seamus McElwaine

  Irish Republican Army-terrorist, killed at age 25.

• Frank Mortelmans

  Belgian painter, dies at age 87.

• Joseph P Addabbo

  US defence specialist/(Senator-Democrat), dies at age 61.

• Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin

  cosmonaut, dies at age 76.

• Marcel Dassault [Bloch]

  French airplane builder, dies at age 94.

• Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck]

  American music composer, murdered at age 81 (born 1905).

• Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson (wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

  Duchess of Windsor) dies at age 89 (born 1896).

• Salah Jaheen

  Egyptian poet and cartoonist (Born 1930).

• Jean Mogin

  Belgian poet, dies at age 64.

• Valentin Kataev

  Russian author and playwright (d. 1986).

• Peter Pears

  English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at age 75 (born 1910).

• Sibte Hassan

  Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (Born 1916).

• Otto Preminger

  Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor (d. 1986).

• Linda Creed

  American singer-songwriter (d. 1986).

• Tim McIntire

  Actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42.

• Stephen Stucker

  Actor (Trading Places, Airplane).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
2. Prince - Kiss
3. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
4. John Cougar Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock)
5. Bangles - Manic Monday

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
2. George Michael - A Different Corner
3. The Bangles - Manic Monday
4. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll
5. Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough (The Tough Get Going)