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1986 in the United States

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1986
in
the United States

Decades:
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Events from the year 1986 in the United States.

Incumbents

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Federal government

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Warren E. Burger (Virginia) (until September 26)
William Rehnquist (Virginia) (starting September 26)

Events

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January

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January 28: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

February

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March

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April

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May

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May 25: Hands Across America

June

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July

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August

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August 31: Cerritos mid-air collision

September

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  • September 5 – Pan Am Flight 73, a flight from Bombay, India, to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, is hijacked. Twenty-one people are killed during the hijacking, including nationals from India, the United States, Pakistan, and Mexico.

October

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November

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December

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  • December – The unemployment rate drops to 6.6%, the lowest since March 1980.
  • December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.
  • December 26 – After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of the longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.
  • December 31 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.

Ongoing

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Births

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Those born in the year 1986 are considered millennials (Generation Y or Gen Y).

January

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Mayra Flores
Emilia Sykes
Michelle Waterson
Christopher Celiz
Jessy Schram
Hale Appleman
Becca Tobin
Mischa Barton
Matt Heafy
Drew Tyler Bell
Andrew Giuliani

February

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Lauren Conrad
Dane DeHaan
Stephen Colletti
PJ Brennan
Valorie Curry
Tiffany Thornton
Rajon Rondo
Bryce Papenbrook
Justin Berfield
JWoww

March

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Margo Harshman
George Salazar
Brittany Snow
Alexandra Daddario
Olesya Rulin
Simon Curtis
Scott Eastwood
Brett Eldredge
Steven Strait
Jonny Craig
Bowe Bergdahl
Lady Gaga

April

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Kid Ink
Hillary Scott
Amanda Bynes
Charlotte Flair
Jason Ralph
Leighton Meester
Candace Parker
Amber Heard
Marshawn Lynch
Kellin Quinn
Jenna Ushkowitz
Dianna Agron

May

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Emily Armstrong
Lena Dunham
Lawrence Timmons
Megan Fox
Drew Roy
Molly Ephraim
Ryan Coogler
Mark Ballas
Seth Rollins
Hornswoggle
Will Peltz
Waka Flocka Flame

June

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Keegan Bradley
Shia LaBeouf
Kat Dennings
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen
Dreama Walker
Solange Knowles
Drake Bell
Kellie Pickler
Demetrius Byrd
Alicia Fox

July

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Lindsay Lohan
Sevyn Streeter
Kiely Williams
Wyatt Russell
Mojo Rawley
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Betty Gilpin
Diane Guerrero
Monica Raymund
Darin Ruf

August

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Josh Harder
Katie Sowers
Peyton List
Telle Smith
Miesha Tate
Big K.R.I.T.
Mario
Armie Hammer
Lea Michele
Ryan Kelley

September

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Shaun White
Xavier Woods
Brittany Furlan
Mike Lawler
Emmy Rossum
Jenna Marbles
Heidi Montag
Kyla Pratt
Peter Vack
Aldis Hodge
Lindsey Stirling
Kaylee DeFer
Eloise Mumford
Lo Bosworth
Ki Hong Lee

October

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Jurnee Smollett
Camilla Belle
Lauren Underwood
Olivia Thirlby
Holland Roden
Amber Stevens West
Tyler Blackburn
Chris Motionless
Kyle Gallner
Christine Evangelista
Italia Ricci
Derek Theler

November

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Penn Badgley
Katie Leclerc
Aaron Swartz
Josh Peck
Victor Cruz
Kalisto
Cory Michael Smith
Ashley Fink
Katie Cassidy
Arjun Gupta
Max Rose

December

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Mandela Barnes
DeSean Jackson
Martell Webster
Nita Strauss
Kate Voegele
Condola Rashād
Sam Cronin
Lauren Boebert
Emma Bell
Anoop Desai
Noël Wells
Ana Brenda Contreras
Chris Gronkowski
Caity Lotz
Jeff Ward

Full date unknown

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Natalie Brunell
Tanner Cohen
Andre Douglas

Deaths

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January

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L. Ron Hubbard
STS-51-L crew
Gregory Jarvis, astronaut and engineer (b. 1944)[5]
Christa McAuliffe, school teacher (b. 1948)[5]
Ronald E. McNair, astronaut and physicist (b. 1950)[5]
Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (b. 1946)[5]
Judith Resnik, astronaut and engineer (b. 1949)[5]
Francis R. Scobee, astronaut (b. 1939)[5]
Michael J. Smith, astronaut (b. 1945)[5]

February

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March

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James Cagney

April

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Broderick Crawford

May

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Robert Alda

June

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July

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Fritz Albert Lipmann

August

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September

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October

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November

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Cary Grant

December

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Desi Arnaz

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, pp. 328, 330
  2. ^ Orlean, Susan (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
  3. ^ "Top Gun: By The Numbers". ByTheNumbers.com. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
  4. ^ Clarke, Peter (March 2004). Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-134-49970-0.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Space Shuttle Challenger Fast Facts". CNN. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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