1986 in the United States

Summary

Events from the year 1986 in the United States.

1986
in
the United States

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

Incumbents edit

Federal government edit

Events edit

January edit

 
January 28: Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

February edit

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May edit

 
May 25: Hands Across America

June edit

July edit

August edit

 
August 31: Cerritos mid-air collision

September edit

  • 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.

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December edit

  • 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 edit

Undated edit

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

Births edit

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

January edit

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

February edit

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

March edit

 
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 edit

 
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 edit

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

June edit

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

July edit

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

August edit

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

September edit

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

October edit

 
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 edit

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

December edit

 
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 edit

 
Natalie Brunell
 
Tanner Cohen
 
Andre Douglas

Deaths edit

January edit

 
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 edit

March edit

 
James Cagney

April edit

 
Broderick Crawford

May edit

 
Robert Alda

June edit

July edit

 
Fritz Albert Lipmann

August edit

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October edit

November edit

 
Cary Grant

December edit

 
Desi Arnaz

See also edit

References edit

  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.

External links edit

  •   Media related to 1986 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons