May 1986 calendar

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.

Famous Birthday

• Megan Fox

  American actress and model.

• Robert Pattinson

  English actor, model, musician and producer.

• Lena Dunham

  TV Actress.

• Maitre Gims (rapper)
• Emily Vancamp
• Hornswoggle

  American professional wrestler.

• Marie de Villepin
• Astrid Berges-Frisbey

  Movie Actress.

• Waka Flocka Flame

  American rapper.

• Seth Rollins

  Wrestler.

• Tahj Mowry

  American actor.

• Sebastian Janikowski
• Stéphane Mbia

  Cameroonian footballer.

• Clay Matthews III
• Melissa McIntyre

  Canadian actress.

• Poppy Delevingne
• Abou Diaby

  French footballer.

• Alizee Guinochet
• Yon González

  Spanish actor.

• Mamadou Samassa
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Famous Deaths

• Sterling Hayden

  American actor and author.

• Robert Alda

  American-born actor (Dan Lewis - Supertrain), dies at age 72 (born 1914).

• Theodore H White

  American journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at age 71 (born 1958).

• Perry Ellis

  American fashion designer; top of the field since 1978.

• Yakima Canutt

  Actor / director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91.

• Martin Gabel

  Actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63.

• Gaston Deferre

  French politician, dies at age 75.

• Dirk de Vroome [Red Giant] Limbourg

  activist, dies at age 60.

• John Bubbles Sublett

  tap dancer (Black and Bubbles), dies at age 84.

• Stephen D Thorne

  Lieutenant Commander US Navy/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at age 33.

• Chester Bowles

  American senator/ambassador, dies at age 85 (born 1901).

• Sergio Cresto

  American rally co-driver (Born 1956).

• Alicia Moreau de Justo

  Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist (Born 1885).

• Giorgos Tzifos

  Greek actor (Born 1918).

• Tenzing Norgay
• Ernle Bradford

  English historian and writer (Born 1922).

• Jeffrey Mylett

  American actor (Born 1949).

• Hank Mobley

  American jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986).

• Hugo Peretti

  American songwriter and record producer (Born 1916).

• Chester Bowles

  American senator/ambassador, dies at age 85 (born 1901).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
2. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
3. Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
4. Madonna - Live To Tell
5. Prince - Kiss

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. George Michael - A Different Corner
2. Spitting Image - The Chicken Song
3. Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll
4. Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own
5. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus