Year (''' MCMLXXXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian Calendar ).
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- February 2 - One of Australia's worst crimes, the Anita Cobby Murder , occurs.
- February 7 - President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti , ending 28 years of family rule.
- February 9 - Mohinder Amarnath becomes the first Batsman Dismissed for Handling The Ball in One-day International Cricket .
- February 9 - Comet Halley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.
- February 11 - Human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the Soviet Union and leaves the country.
- February 16 - The Soviet liner '' Mikhail Lermontov '' runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds , New Zealand .
- February 16 - The French Air Force Raids The Libyan Ouadi Doum Airbase in northern Chad .
- February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir Space Station .
- February 19 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing Genocide .
- February 21 - Nintendo releases the Famicom Disk System in Japan . A customer could re-write games with the Disk for 500 Yen . The instruction manual was sold seperatly for 100 Yen . The first game enhanced with Famicom Disk System capabilities was The Legend Of Zelda .
- of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president. Salvador Laurel becomes her Prime Minister.
- February 25 - Egypt ian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the Pyramids , set fire to them and loot them.
- February 27 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- February 28 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead on his way home from the cinema.
- March 3 - The first paper is published describing the Atomic Force Microscope , invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christophe Berger. {Link without Title}
- March 4 - The '' Today '' national tabloid newspaper is launched in the United Kingdom , pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour Offset Printing at a time when British national newspapers still use Linotype Machines and Letterpress .
- March 8 - Japan ese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet , studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
- March 9 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle '' Challenger ''; the bodies of all 7 Astronaut s are still inside.
- March 13 - Irish racemare Dawn Run wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham , England, becoming the first racehorse to complete the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double.
- March 26 - An article in the '' New York Times '' charges that Kurt Waldheim , former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of Austria , may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II .
- March 27 - A Car Bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne , killing a police officer.
- March 31 - A fire devastates Hampton Court Palace in Surrey , England .
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