Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking against violence, repression and racism and defending human dignity.
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1986 in United States of America — Page 3
Explore 95 historical events and records for United States of America in 1986.
Historical records for United States of America in 1986
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Peggy Sue Got Married
Appears in Peggy Sue Got Married
Relativity, Theory of
Will synthesizes experimental tests of general relativity and parameterized post Newtonian theory
Robot Dreams Collection
Asimov published Robot Dreams, a collection illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie.
Rogers Version
Publication of "Rogers Version"
Rule of Gulf of Sirte
US naval forces enter the Gulf of Sirte which Libya had illegally claimed
She's Gotta Have It
Makes his feature breakthrough with She's Gotta Have It, which he writes, directs and stars in.
Standard Siren Method
Schutz proposes using gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries as standard sirens, allowing cosmic distances and the Hubble constant to be measured without a conventional distance ladder.
The Color of Money
Stars in "The Color of Money"
The Color of Money
Directs, New York, The Color of Money
The Other Side of Life
Produces "The Other Side of Life" for the Moody Blues
Toby Award Song and Dance Actress
Bernadette Peters received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance.
Top Gun
Stars in Top Gun which becomes the highest grossing film of the year, taking in US$354 million in worldwide figures
Tour de France
Winner of the Tour de France, 1st win. LeMond becomes the first American cyclist to win the race
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
The term "weapons of mass destruction" is used in the context of nuclear arms control by Ronald Reagan used at the Reykjavik Summit
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