I have four hours to put together a project on 1986, please help me oh nu-ilx!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Challenger_explosion.jpg/740px-Challenger_explosion.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Challenger_explosion.jpg

Sorry, it's the first thing that sprung to mind!

Channel tunnel announced : Feb 20th 1986

http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=51&format=tv&theme=history

(alternative to broomstick for witches day trips to France)

I will look for more stuff later

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_4713000/4713752.stm

Feb 20th 1986 : Soviets launch space station Mir, allowing Wiccan astronauts to work in space for the first time.

500 new C86es by midnight.

Also born on Feb 20th :

http://www.nndb.com/lists/568/000106250/

No wiccans that I know of but...

Highlights in History Which Occur February 20:
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed gov-gen of East-Indies
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for œ100/scalp bounty
1732 Treaty of Vienna ratified
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter, Pa
1792 US postal service created; postage 6›-12«›, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1823 English Capt James Weddell reaches 74ø 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepci¢n, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg-many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1865 M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 Tenn Gov WC Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
and Toothpick manufacturing machine patented in US
1873 U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
1876 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #160 Una
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
and International Association (minor baseball league) organized
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
and R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
1899 Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
and L Carnera discovers asteroid #469 Argentina
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
and WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
1927 Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1928 O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1090 Sumida
1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
1933 Curom, Cura‡aose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
and House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1934 O Bancilhon discovers asteroid #1333 Cevenola
and Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1935 Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1482 Sebastiana & #3569
and UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
and Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1449 Virtanen, #1450 Raimonda & #2898
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
and Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
and New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M‚xico)
1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
and US landing on Eniwetok atol
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42ý blocks in LA
and Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
and WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1963 Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
and Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
and Turkish government of Uergpl forms
1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
and State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda
Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations
and to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1972 1st time Cleve Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
and Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater
and Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 M from Houston Aeros, WHA
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party
1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jean-Pierre Coopman
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
and Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1980 Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
1982 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2636 Lassell & #3193 Elliot
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
and Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
1984 Asteroid #3731 discovered
1985 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3701
After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's
and check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
and Andr‚ Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
and Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
and Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
and Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
and Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for #37.6 million
and Rob Druppers runs world record 1000m indoor (2:16.2)
and Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April
and reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
and NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
and Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
and Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

Er, yeah.....I'm thinking perhaps best to not mention the 1986 entry.

1984 Asteroid #3731 discovered
1985 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3701

my fave memory of 1986 - THE BEASTIE BOYS!

The number one single in the UK as of 20 February 1986 was the noble Sir William Ocean with his thrusting Thatcherkid anthem "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going." In second place was the popular, "wacky" sitcom star Su Pollard with her heart-rending "Starting Together," the theme from an early BBC reality series about weddings, or possibly even just the one wedding.

Top Ten Singles (the only two I can bear are Madge and Diana)

1. Communards Don't Leave Me This Way
2 Nick Berry Every Loser Wins
3 Boris Gardiner I Want To Wake Up With You
4 Cliff Richard & The Young Ones Living Doll
5 Diana Ross Chain Reaction
6 Chris De Burgh Lady In Red
7 Billy Ocean When The Going Gets Tough
8 Berlin Take My Breath Away
9 Madonna Papa Don't Preach
10 Sinitta So Macho / Crusing

Good idea! Make an inflatable penis and say it's because of the Beastie Boys!

(that was an xxpost, I guess)

This came out in 1986 funnily enough... http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0875420508.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

on 20 february 1986 various wiccans made unverifiable claims.

Best Selling LPs (A-Ha rules this list!)


Position Artist Title
1 Madonna True Blue
2 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
3 Various artists (EMI/Virgin) Now, That's What I Call Music 8
4 Paul Simon Graceland
5 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston
6 Various artist (Virgin/EMI) Now, That's What I Call Music 7
7 A-Ha Hunting High And Low
8 Queen A Kind Of Magic
9 Eurythmics Revenge
10 Five Star Silk And Steel

For an alternative view, here is the NME critics' EOY albums list for 1986:

1. Prince & the Revolution - Parade
2. Anita Baker - Rapture
3. Janet Jackson - Control
4. Sonic Youth - EVOL
5. Cameo - Word Up
6. Paul Simon - Graceland
7. The Fall - Bend Sinister
8. Run-DMC - Raising Hell
9. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
10. Mantronix - The Album

Never thought much of numbers 2 or 6 but the rest are fab.

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1986.html

NME end of year list 1986.

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/festive50lists.htm

Festive Fifty

Thank you, thank you, thank you :)

I'm cutting and pasting like crazy here. Unfortunately my computer just crashed when trying to load a webpage about the BBC's Domesday project which was done in 1986, and I lost a load of information. Grr.

Thanks for all the music lists. What was on telly in 1986? Can anyone find me that while I try and recover my lost pages?

(also, I have no time to verify facts so I AM TRUSTING YOU ALL HERE!! also, I love you all)

Good idea! Make an inflatable penis and say it's because of the Beastie Boys!

that would be awesome. don't forget a six pack of bud tall boys and a VW emblem

(I love how most of these responses are music-related)

LOOK AT THESE, CJ!

RADIO TIMES COVERS! http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/radiotimes/radiotimes86.htm

1. Communards Don't Leave Me This Way

You should play her this, it's a wonderful song.

1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
and R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1986/films2.shtml

Look at the tabs on the left for toys,films,fashion. A bit thin, but might spark off some imagination...

Teriffic stuff!! Thank you so much!

Films :http://www.fast-rewind.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?target=1986&searchtype=Year

Can't find best sellers list....yet. God I'm enjoying this!

senveth top grossing movie in us = the golden child

http://www.blackpoolmagic.com/history.html

The Britsh Magical Championships started in 1986.

British...

1986 articles on Uri Geller :

January - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - font size=-1>Vol. 53 Letters: Brian Inglis.
18 January - Financial Times - Peter Sterling of Zanex Mining is reported to be "well pleased" with Uri's work for his company./Margaret Van Hatten. "A cost-effective count of the spoons"
4 May - Sunday Express - Interview with David Berglas.
June - The Skeptic [Australia] - Vol. 6 No. 2 - "Zanex pays Geller over $350,000"
22 August - The Times - Letters: Arthur Ellison on Uri Geller's meeting with Arthur C. Clarke at Birkbeck College in 1974.
August - Nykyposti [Finland] - "Monimiljonääri Uri Geller hämmästytti taas yleisönsä!"
8 September - Brisbane Daily Sun - "Psychic predicts Howard as PM"
5 October - Mail on Sunday - "Come on Mr Geller who do you think you are fooling!" #
12 October - Mail on Sunday - "How Uri bends the truth about big names" #
19 October - Mail on Sunday - "Shut up or put up Mr Geller" #
2 November - The People - "I'll stop Big Ben, boasts Uri Geller"
13 December - Psychic News - Article.
1986 - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - Vol. 53 No. 803 - Letters: R. D. Couttie on Nitinol - pp. 336-7
1986 - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - Vol. 53 - Book Reviews: The Paranormal by Brian Inglis.
1986 - Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - Vol. 53 No. 856 - Book Review: Tony Utting. - Uri Geller - Magician or Mystic?"
1986? 13 September - Bul [Israel] - "The Crook from Outer Space"

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0149676.html

Academy Award Winners 1986

BAFTAs 1986


http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/1986

The Singing Detective was on telly in 1986

And Blackadder Series II

Singing Detective - greatest TV series ever.

Dr. Who Season 23 with Colin Baker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/index_sixth.shtml

Network South East Launched June 10 1986

http://srpublicity.co.uk/nse/nse04.htm

Rear of the Year 1986 (women) : Anneka Rice (ugh!) and, GET THIS....

(men) Michael Barrymore!!

Aaargh!

Pipe smoker of the Year : David Bryant (the bowls player)

Sports personality of the year award 1986 : Nigel Mansell

"personality"

Was the 1986 world cup the Hand of God thing???

(this is all coming together really well now. I've got the bare bones of it sorted out, and am playing about with layouts now. I'm also getting ambitious, and might try and get a CD of the top 10 singles of 1986 sorted out for her as well if there's time)

Thanks again, all!! :))

Yes Maradona's hand.

http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/tellyyears/christmas80s2.htm

Christmas day TV 1986

Yes '86 was Hand Of God time. Also the year of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and Heseltine walking out of the Cabinet over the Westlands affair.

Celebrity weddings: Andy & Fergie (thus Lady In Red), Michelle & Lofty (dissolved: thus Every Loser Wins).

And C86!!!!

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE CEEJ!

ALL teh radio times covers from 1986 - OMG! This is making my day - I love the Radio Times! And they scale up if you click on them. Look at the one for 15-21st Feb - worst cover ever, but kind of topical if you were busy being born that week.

http://www.vintagetimes.org.uk/index.php

Oh my god, that's brilliant!

The cover with the Singing Detective is fantastic

Europe - The Final Countdown = 1986.

I'd just like to say a very big thank you to everyone for their help. I got this finished (with only minutes to spare!) before the party last night - 25 sheets of A4 card, bound together with silver ribbon, and filled with a pretty comprehensive record of the year of her birth, all decorated scrapbook-stylee with pictures of vinyl records, film stills, song lyrics, panini stickers of-the-day etc etc plus photos of the birthday girl which I'd managed to get hold of from her parents.

Holly absolutely loved it, and it made her cry! She said she was really touched because I must have spent weeks and weeks compiling it all .... I told her no, it actually took a couple of hours plus the help of an international posse of message board mates. Which raised a few eyebrows at the party, but never mind :)

Many thanks again. You are stars.

No inflatable penis then? :-(

If I'd have found an inflatable penis, I'd have kept it for myself and not bothered going to the party.

What's that on the top of it? Sand? Scuff marks? A Join-The-Dots game?

Signatures of all the girls he's had, the bastard.

Written in braille.

Braille dotted... for her pleasure!

I am totally stealing this idea for every important birthday...

what, the inflatable cock?

"Hey You, Get Your Damn Hands Off Her": An '86 Mix
110 Minutes
SIDE A
Mountains – Prince And The Revolution
Amanda – Boston*
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House*
I’m Your Man – Wham!*
My ADIDAS – Run DMC
Walk This Way – Run DMC*
In A Different Light – The Bangles*
Take The Skinheads Bowling – Camper Van Beethoven
Silent Running – Mike + The Mechanics*
Rise – Public Image Limited
In Too Deep – Genesis*
Peace Sells – Megadeth
Fall On Me – R.E.M.
Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 – The Police*
Live To Tell - Madonna*

SIDE B
Behind The Wall Of Sleep – The Smithereens
No One Is To Blame – Howard Jones*
Election Day – Arcadia*
Shot In The Dark – Ozzy Osbourne
Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung*
Mr Pharmacist – The Fall
Broken Wings – Mr Mister*
Diggin’ Up Bones – Randy Travis*
Human – The Human League*
What You Need – INXS*
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) – Metallica
Just A Little Closer – Robbie Nevil*
Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Venus - Bananarama*