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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 1986.
The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on May 1986: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 1986?


Events

  • 01 May 1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph.
  • 02 May 1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II.
  • 03 May 1986 New York Yankees' Don Mattingly is sixth to hit three sacrifice flies in a game.
  • 04 May 1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan.
  • 06 May 1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes first native American bishop.
  • 07 May 1986 In Andreanof Islands, Alaska, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs. Tsunami generated with observed wave heights up to 175 cm.
  • 08 May 1986 Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica.
  • 11 May 1986 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic.
  • 12 May 1986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
  • 14 May 1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Frank's complete diary.
  • 15 May 1986 Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years.
  • 16 May 1986 Top Gun, premieres
  • 17 May 1986 Chicken Song by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
  • 18 May 1986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yard pool.
  • 20 May 1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
  • 21 May 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
  • 22 May 1986 Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
  • 23 May 1986 US and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa.
  • 24 May 1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours.
  • 25 May 1986 30,000,000 watch Live Aid, a massive benefit concert
  • 26 May 1986 The European Community adopts the European flag.
  • 27 May 1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
  • 28 May 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados.
  • 29 May 1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling "odontalgia".
  • 30 May 1986 Bobby Rahal is first to average over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500.

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Music charts

Which were the top hits in May 1986?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Addicted To Love
  2. - West End Girlsyoutube
  3. - Greatest Love Of All
  4. - Live To Tell
  5. - Kiss

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - A Different Corner
  2. - The Chicken Song
  3. - Living Doll
  4. - On My Own
  5. - Rock Me Amadeusyoutube

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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A Very Peculiar Practice

A Very Peculiar Practice

Release year: 1986

Starring: Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn, David Troughton

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Down by Law

Down by Law

Release year: 1986

Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi

Country: United States of America

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Release year: 1986

Directed by: John Hughes

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones

Country: United States of America

The Mission

The Mission

Release year: 1986

Directed by: Roland Joffé

Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn

Country: United States of America

Aakhree Raasta

Aakhree Raasta

Release year: 1986

Directed by: Bhagyaraj

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Jaya Prada, Om Shivpuri

Books

Which were the most popular books released in May 1986?
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Enter Talking by Joan Rivers with Richard Meryman

Enter Talking

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Signed and dated with a personalized inscription in plastic on a hardback dust cover

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

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Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove is a love story, adventure, and epic of the frontier. It is the third book in the Lonesome Dove Tetralogy.

Blessings In Disguise by Alec Guinness

Blessings In Disguise

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Memoirs of Sir Alec Guinness, actor. This book contains pen portraits of Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud as well as account of Guinness’s filmmaking.

High Jinx by William F. Buckley Jr

High Jinx

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It is 1954 and Joseph Stalin has died. Another drama is unfolding in an unnamed part of the Soviet Empire as Laurenti Beria plots to succeed him.

A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

A Perfect Spy

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Magnus Pym, over the course of his seemingly unreproachable life has been everything to everyone: a loving father, a trustworthy colleague, a loyal friend, and the perfect spy.