WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1986
Find out what all happened January to June 1986

The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni. (26. January 1986)

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

NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration. (12. May 1986)

The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. (25. January 1986)

The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. (27. February 1986)

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. (30. June 1986)

In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people. (14. April 1986)

1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded. (14. April 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)

Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. (4. June 1986)

Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist. (12. January 1986)

Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits. (7. May 1986)

The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. (24. March 1986)

Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands. (1. January 1986)

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

The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. (19. May 1986)

The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. (15. 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 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)