1986 in the United States

1986
in
the United States

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

Events from the year 1986 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

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.
  • September 8 – The Oprah Winfrey Show debuts nationally. The show was an instant success, making Oprah one of the most influential people in the world.

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 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

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

Gregory Jarvis astronaut and engineer (b. 1944)
Christa McAuliffe school teacher (b. 1948)
Ronald E. McNair astronaut and physicist (b. 1950)
Ellison Onizuka astronaut (b. 1946)
Judith Resnik astronaut and engineer (b. 1949)
Francis R. Scobee astronaut (b. 1939)
Michael J. Smith astronaut (b. 1945)

See also

References

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