December 1986 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1986 Paul McCartney releases Only Love Remains
• 02 Dec 1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
• 03 Dec 1986 Sri Lanka all out 55 versus West Indies in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in four 3 overs.
• 04 Dec 1986 NASA launches Fltsatcom-7.
• 06 Dec 1986 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Florida (quarterback).
• 07 Dec 1986 Juli Inkster / Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
• 08 Dec 1986 US House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker.
• 10 Dec 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 11 Dec 1986 South Africa censors press.
• 12 Dec 1986 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed.
• 14 Dec 1986 Voyager experimental aircraft, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California on first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
• 15 Dec 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
• 16 Dec 1986 Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure
• 17 Dec 1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee.
• 18 Dec 1986 Mr Gates, serves as acting Director of CIA
• 19 Dec 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
• 20 Dec 1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
• 21 Dec 1986 Amy Alcott / Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
• 23 Dec 1986 Rutan andYeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
• 24 Dec 1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released.
• 26 Dec 1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
• 27 Dec 1986 Les Miserables opens at Kennedy Center, Washington DC
• 28 Dec 1986 Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors, wins Davis Cup.
• 30 Dec 1986 US begins military exercises in Honduras.
• 31 Dec 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97

Famous Birthday

• Kit Harington

  TV Actor.

• Ellie Goulding

  British singer.

• Hugo Lloris

  French football/soccer player, a goalkeeper for English club Tottenham Hotspur and captain of the France national team.

• Alex Hepburn
• Alix Henriol
• Giba (volleyball player)
• Snejana Onopka

  Ukrainian model.

• Kate Voegele

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and actress.

• Junsu

  Pop Singer.

• Shelly-Ann Fraser
• Riyo Mori

  Japanese model and dancer Miss Universe 2007.

• Caity Lotz

  TV Actress.

• Kristen Dalton (Miss USA)
• Roy Hibbert

  Basketball Player.

• Bronson Pelletier

  Canadian actor.

• Alla Kostromicheva
• Martell Webster

  American basketball player.

• Ryan Babel

  Dutch footballer.

• Dustin Fitzsimons
• Vanessa Zima

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Andrei Tarkovsky

  The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and...

• Elsa Lanchester

  Lewisham London, England -- Actress (Bride of Frankenstien).

• Malik Oussekine

  Algerian/French student, killed by police at age 22.

• Ron Kass

  Record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer.

• Celius Dougherty

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Gardner F[rancis] Fox

  Author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75.

• Andrei Tarkovski

  Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54.

• John Antill

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Lester Albert Trimble

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Lloyd Haynes

  Actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54.

• Jiri Jaroch

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Harold Macmillan

  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1894).

• Era Bell Thompson

  American journalist (Born 1905).

• Robert L "Bobby" Layne

  football player (Detroit Lions), dies at age 59.

• [Irving] Lee Dorsey [Kid Chocolate]

  US boxer/singer, dies at age 59.

• Lee Dorsey R&B singer

  dies at age 59.

• Reuben Nakian

  US sculptor, dies at age 89.

• Carmol Taylor

  country songwriter, dies at age 53 of cancer.

• [Maurice] Harold Macmillan

  former British Prime Minister (1957-63), dies in Sussex, England, at age 92 (born 1894).

• Frank McCarthy

  American producer (Born 1912).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peter Cetera - The Next Time I Fall
2. Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
3. Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
4. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
5. Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Europe - The Final Countdown
2. Erasure - Sometimes
3. The Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
4. Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
5. Oran 'Juice' Jones - The Rain