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| Oprah Went National |
Haiti’s “Baby Doc”
Duvalier fled to France. Ferdinand Marcos left the Philippines
to hide in Hawaii. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger resigned. Antonin Scalia was appointed. Ronald Reagan denied Arms For Hostages
trade. Iran invaded Iraq. Chernobyl happened. Tut tomb was found n Egypt.
Voyager 2 sped by Uranus. Reagan and Mikhail
Gorbachev began their famous chats. The Supreme Court affirmed affirmative
action. The U.S. government was shut down.
Hepatitis B vaccine was developed. Microsoft went public. Reggie Jackson hit his 537th home run,
breaking Mickey Mantle’s record. The Oprah Winfrey Show went national.
The Nobel Peace prize went to Elie
Wiesel. The Pulitzer Prize for Literature was awarded to Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove. The Mystery Writers of America
gave their top award the Edgar, to L R.
Wright for The Suspect. We also read It by Stephen King, Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, Whirlwind by James Clavell, The Bourne Supremacy by Robert
Ludlum, Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins, Wanderlust by Danielle
Steele, I’ll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz, Last of the Breed by Louis
L’Amour, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, and A Perfect Spy by John Le
Carré. We watched Stand
By Me, Aliens, Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Labrynth, and Platoon.
Out of Africa won the Academy’s best picture award. The Grammy that
year went to Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie for “We Are The World.” Other popular music included “That’s What
Friends Are For” by Dionne And Friends,
“Say You, Say Me “by Lionel Ritchie, “I Miss You,” by Klymax, “On my Own” by Patti
LaBelle. “Broken Wings,” Mr. Mister,
“Party All The Time” by Eddie Murphy.
1986 births include Lady Gaga. Robert Pattinson, Usain Bolt and Shia
Labeouf. Quite a few notables
departed the realm: L. Ron Hubbard, Donna Reed, Cary
Grant, Desi Arnaz. James Cagney, Benny Goodman, Forest Tucker,
Ray Milland, Gordon McCrae. Rudy Vallee,
Kate Smith, Georgia O’Keefe and LiIi
Palmer. If you were around, what
were you doing during the year of the fire tiger?
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| 1986 Corvette, Indy 500 Pace Car |
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