WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1986
Find out what all happened June to December 1986

Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range. (21. August 1986)

Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France. (6. July 1986)

An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people. (10. October 1986)

In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. (23. July 1986)

Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission. (26. November 1986)

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

In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. (20. August 1986)

The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. (9. October 1986)

Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling. (23. December 1986)

Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains. (19. October 1986)

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky. (19. December 1986)

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. (29. October 1986)

Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. (2. July 1986)

The Boston Red Sox win Game 2 of the 1986 World Series versus the New York Mets 9-3 at Shea Stadium. (19. October 1986)

A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140. (31. December 1986)

Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders. (16. October 1986)

A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (6. August 1986)

USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949. (5. November 1986)

Gennady Kolbin replaces Dinmukhamed Konayev as First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, prompting the Jeltoqsan protests which began the next day. (16. December 1986)

The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America. (3. November 1986)