1986 in the United States

Events from the year 1986 in the United States.

1986
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
See also:

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

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September

  • 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

November

December

  • 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

Undated

  • O-Zone Inc media production company is founded in New York City.

Births

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

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Full date unknown

Deaths

January

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]

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December

See also

References

  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. "Space Shuttle Challenger Fast Facts". CNN. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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