WHAT HAPPENED IN 1986.
Look what happened the 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 Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. (27. February 1986)

Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. (28. February 1986)

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

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

Hotel New World Disaster: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. (15. March 1986)

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

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

A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 167. (31. March 1986)

Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England. (31. March 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)

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)

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

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)

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

Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted. (17. April 1986)

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

Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. (25. April 1986)