3rd » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
10th » An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
11th » Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and USSR known as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reykjavík Summit or meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
16th » Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
19th » Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash known as crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
19th » The Boston Red Sox win Game 2 of the 1986 World Series versus the New York Mets 9-3 at Shea Stadium.
21st » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have Iran–Contra Affair called abducted United States named American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
24th » Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hi
27th » The United Kingdom or British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang (financial markets) called Big Bang.
29th » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
19th » Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded 'Newswatch (Nigeria) called Newswatch Magazine' (b. 1947)
19th » Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
21st » Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922)
22nd » Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
22nd » Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
23rd » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
24th » Claude B. Duval, People from Houma, Louisiana (b. 1914)
25th » Forrest Tucker, American actor and singer (b. 1919)