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Things that happened in 1986
US GDP (1998 dollars): $4,422.20 billion
Federal spending: $990.34
billion
Federal debt: $2120.6 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $24,897
Consumer Price Index: 109.6
Unemployment: 7.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp:
$0.22
Super Bowl
Chicago d. New England (46-10)
World Series
NY Mets d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)
NBA Championship
Boston d. Houston (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Calgary (4-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. H.
Mandlikova (7-6 6-3)
Men: Boris Becker d. I. Lendl
(6-4 6-3 7-5)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Ferdinand
NCAA Basketball Championship
Louisville d. Duke (72-69)
NCAA Football Champions
Penn St. (12-0-0)
World Cup
Argentina d. W. Germany (3-2)
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Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Lonesome
Dove, Larry McMurtry
Music: Wind Quintet
IV, George Perle
Oscars awarded in 1986
Academy Award, Best Picture:
Out of Africa, Sydney
Pollack, producer (Universal)
Nobel Prize for
Literature: Wole Soyinka
(Nigeria)
1986 Emmy Awards
1986 Tony Awards
Grammys awarded in 1986
Record of the Year: "We
Are the World," USA for Africa
Album of the Year: No
Jacket Required, Phil
Collins (Atlantic)
Song of the Year: "We Are
the World," Michael Jackson and
Lionel Richie, songwriters
Miss America: Susan
Akin (MS)
More Entertainment Awards...
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Events
- Barry Diller, head of News
Corp., creates Fox, the fourth
television network. Fox offers 10
hours of prime-time programming a
week.
- The Television Bureau of
Advertising announces that the
average American household watches
television for more than seven hours
a day.
- The
Oprah Winfrey Show hits
national television.
- The Academic American
Encyclopedia is available on
CD-ROM. It is the first
reference work published in this
medium.
- Nintendo video games introduced
in U.S.
Movies
- Platoon, Hannah and Her
Sisters, The Color of Money, The
Mission
Books
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Nobel
Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Dudley R.
Herschback, Yuan T. Lee (both
US), and John C. Polanyi
(Canada), for their work on
“reaction dynamics”
Physics: Ernst Ruska,
Gerd Binnig (both Germany), and
Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland),
for work on microscopes
Physiology or Medicine:
Rita Levi-Montalcini (dual
US/Italy) and Stanley Cohen
(US), for their contributions to
the understanding of substances
that influence cell growth |
- K. Alex Müller (Switzerland) and
J. Georg Bednorz (Germany) discover
superconductivity in a ceramic
material at -397ºF, a higher
temperature than ever before.
- Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager make
the first nonstop flight around the
world without refueling. The
Voyager flew around the world
(24,986 miles) from Edwards AFB,
California, returning in 216 hours,
3 minutes, and 44 seconds (Dec.
14–23). Background:
Famous Firsts in Aviation
- The first genetically-engineered
vaccine, for
hepatitis B, gains FDA approval.
Background:
Health & Nutrition
- The Voyager 2 probe
passes Uranus in January, returning
images and data on its moon, rings,
atmosphere, interior, and magnetic
field. Background:
US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar
Programs
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Halley's comet yields
information on return visit (April
10). Background:
comets
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