1986 Disestablishments In The Soviet Union

The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.

Events

January

* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993.
*January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened.
* January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War.
* January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
*January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.
* January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.
*January 28 – Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disintegrates 73 seconds after launch from the United States, killing the crew of seven astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
*January 29 – Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.

February

* February 3
** Pixar is founded by John Lasseter along with Steve Jobs.
* February 7
** President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.
** The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos is held amidst controversy, that paves the way for a chain of protests, culminating in the People Power Revolution.
* February 8 – Hinton train collision: A Canadian National train heading westbound collides with a Via Rail train in Hinton, Alberta; 23 people are killed and 71 injured in the accident.
* February 9 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century (the first was in 1910).
* February 10 – The Maxi Trial (Italian: ''Maxiprocesso'') begins in the bunker room of the Ucciardone prison ( Palermo). It will be the largest trial against the Sicilian Mafia.
* February 11 – Human rights activist Natan Sharansky is released by Soviet authorities and leaves the country for Israel.
* February 15 – The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.
* February 16
** The Soviet liner sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
** Ouadi Doum air raid: The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
** Mário Soares wins the second round of the Portuguese presidential election.
* February 17 – The Single European Act is signed.
* February 19
** The Soviet Union launches the ''Mir'' space station.
** The United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.
* February 22 – The People Power Revolution begins in the Philippines to remove President Ferdinand Marcos from office.
* February 25
** The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. The General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: Glasnost and Perestroika.
** People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines is ousted from power and goes into exile in Hawaii after 21 years of dictatorial rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president and forms an interim government with Salvador Laurel becoming her Vice-President and Prime Minister.
** A three-day riot begins in Cairo, Egypt when around 25,000 conscripts of the Central Security Forces (CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels, several nightclubs, restaurants and cars were looted and burned in the tourist districts near the Pyramids over several days. The riot became known as the Egyptian Conscripts Riot. At least 25 people died during the first day in Cairo, and an estimated 8,000 people, mostly conscripts in regions outside the city, were killed in total.
* February 27 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
* February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.

March

* March 1 – Olof Palme's deputy Ingvar Carlsson becomes acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He is elected Prime Minister by the Swedish Riksdag on March 15.
* March 3 – The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.
* March 8 – The Japanese Suisei probe flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
* March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle '' Challenger''; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.
* March 13 – In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS ''Yorktown'' and the destroyer USS ''Caron'', claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.
* March 14 – Microsoft Corporation holds its initial public offering of stock shares.
* March 15 – Hotel New World collapses, 33 killed and 17 rescued from rubble.
* March 25 – The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with ''Out of Africa