WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1986
Find out what all happened February to April 1986

The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years. (20. February 1986)

Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany. (5. April 1986)

People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president. (25. February 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. (28. April 1986)

The Hinton train collision: 23 people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people. (8. February 1986)

The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant (29. April 1986)

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. (22. February 1986)

The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. (4. March 1986)

Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987. (2. April 1986)

A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people. (27. March 1986)

The Legend of Zelda, the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System. (21. February 1986)

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years. (20. April 1986)

The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster (27. April 1986)

Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. (7. March 1986)

A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. (29. April 1986)

Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. (7. February 1986)

Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attacks a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion. (1. April 1986)

The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. (16. February 1986)

The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends. (17. April 1986)

A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. Reactor No. 4 with its enclosing sarcophagus. (26. April 1986)