August 1986 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
• 02 Aug 1986 TODAY / PC born today
• 03 Aug 1986 Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
• 04 Aug 1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
• 05 Aug 1986 Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout
• 06 Aug 1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
• 07 Aug 1986 Honky Tonk Nights opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 08 Aug 1986 Record 3 grandslams in a game-
• 09 Aug 1986 Honky Tonk Nights closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 10 Aug 1986 Me & My Girl opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
• 11 Aug 1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
• 12 Aug 1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season.
• 13 Aug 1986 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX
• 14 Aug 1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
• 15 Aug 1986 US President Ronald Reagan decides to support a replacement for the space shuttle Challenger.
• 17 Aug 1986 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
• 18 Aug 1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
• 19 Aug 1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
• 20 Aug 1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
• 21 Aug 1986 Rags opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 22 Aug 1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734
• 23 Aug 1986 Rags closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 24 Aug 1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
• 26 Aug 1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon
• 27 Aug 1986 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
• 28 Aug 1986 Bolivia President Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
• 29 Aug 1986 Morocco King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
• 30 Aug 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon
• 31 Aug 1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die

Famous Birthday

• Charlotte Casiraghi

  Monaco royalty, the second child of Princess Caroline and Stefano Casiraghi.

• Usain Bolt

  Jamaican athlete, sprinter, the best since Carl Lewis, he wanted to be a cricket player.

• Florence Welch

  British singer (Florence + the Machine).

• Cassie (singer)
• Lea Michele

  American actress and singer.

• Ryan Ross

  American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco).

• Armie Hammer

  Movie Actor.

• Theo Hutchcraft

  Pop Singer.

• Christina Perri

  Rock Singer.

• Natalia Kills

  Pop Singer.

• Peyton List

  American actress.

• Ely (Star Academy)
• Shawn Pyfrom

  American actor.

• Lara-Isabelle Rentinck
• Skyler Gordy (SkyBlue)
• Stéphanie (Star Academy)
• Mario (entertainer)
• Keiko Kitagawa

  Japanese model and actress.

• Altair Jarabo

  Mexican model and actress.

• Lily Costner
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Famous Deaths

• Emilio Fernandez

  Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (Born 1904).

• Hermione Baddeley

  England, United Kingdom -- Actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life).

• Ted Knight

  American actor, disk jockey, singer, puppeteer, ventriloquist and radio actor.

• Joseph "Poeske" Scherens

  Belgian cyclist, dies at 77.

• Charles Janssens

  Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80.

• Otto Mortensen

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Urho K Kekkonen

  Premier / President of Finland, dies at 85.

• Paul [Saul] de Groot

  Chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87.

• Jacob A W Burger

  Chairman (Dutch Social Democratic Party), dies at 81.

• Lorenzo Tucker

  Actor (Black King).

• Donn Bennett

  TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76.

• Jaime Saenz

  Bolivian poet and novelist, and short story writer (Born 1921).

• William J Schroeder

  second person to receive permanent artificial heart, dies at age 54 in Louisville, Kentucky, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump.

• Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park

  New York.

• Allen Case

  American television actor, most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC's "The Deputy" (1959–1961) opposite series regular...

• Henry Moore

  British artist, admired as the greatest sculptor of his age.

• Thad Jones

  American trumpet player and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (d. 1986).

• Willem Ruis

  Dutch TV host ( Show), dies at 41.

• Alan Rouse

  English mountaineer and author (d. 1986).

• Walter Brooke

  Actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peter Cetera - Glory Of Love (Theme From The Karate Kid Part II)
2. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
3. Steve Winwood - Higher Love
4. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
5. Bananarama - Venus

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
2. Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red
3. Wham! - The Edge Of Heaven
4. Boris Gardiner - I Want To Wake Up With You
5. Owen Paul - My Favourite Waste Of Time