Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games.

The 1986 Asian Games were held successfully, and the bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul was successful as well.

In 1986, Turner founded the Goodwill Games.

2000AD video games for 8-bit computers include games based on Strontium Dog by Quicksilva for the ZX Spectrum in 1984, Nemesis the Warlock and Sláine bu Martech in 1987, Rogue Trooper written by Design Design / published by Piranha in 1986 and Judge Dredd by Virgin Games in 1990, all released for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum platforms.

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain ( 1986 ) and Legend of Zagor ( 1993 ) were released as board games by Games Workshop and Parker Brothers respectively.

* Goodwill Games, held first in 1986, held as an alternative after the boycotted Olympics of 1980 and 1984.

He was not selected for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986, as he had failed to compete at the Scottish trials.

The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994.

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

Also in her capacity as vicereine, in 1986 Sauvé accepted on behalf of the " People of Canada " the Nansen Medal, and, two years later, opened the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta.

The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994.

" ran from 1986 to 1993 and tells the story of Yawara Inokuma, a young girl who aspires to an ordinary life but who, due to her innate talent, is forced to keep practicing judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona's 1992 Olympic Games.

Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony since its inception in 1986 and filled the same role for the 1996 Olympic Games closing ceremonies from Atlanta, Georgia.

In Sweden a translated version called Sagan om Ringen: Rollspelet was released in 1986 by Target Games, followed by several translated modules, but it never became popular, possibly because most fans of the setting already had bought the U. S. version and others preferred the popular Drakar och Demoner.

In 1986, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) voted to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since the latter's inception in 1924, and arrange them in alternating even-numbered years .< ref >

* Hitler's Games: The 1936 Olympics ( 1986 ) ISBN 0-06-015554-X

The country hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1968 and the FIFA World Cup in 1970 and 1986, and was the first country to host the FIFA World Cup twice.

Released in 1986, the first edition of Blood Bowl was a simple game that used many of the elements of Games Workshop's existing tabletop games.

720 Degrees, or 720 °, is a 1986 arcade game by Atari Games.

The British two pound (£ 2 ) coin was first issued as a commemorative coin in 1986 to celebrate the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

* Concerto for Orchestra by Leonard Bernstein ( 1986 – 89 ), which is also known as " Jubilee Games " for orchestra and baritone

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

The Netherlands has hosted an annual domino toppling exhibition called Domino Day since 1986.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

* 1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

In June 1986 the One Day Capitalcard was launched.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

On 23 August 1986, tens of thousands of demonstrators in 21 western cities including New York, London, Stockholm, Toronto, Seattle, and Perth participated in Black Ribbon Day Rallies to draw attention to the secret protocols.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Federated States of Micronesia from the United States in 1986.

Because of his injury, Smith let his now four-year-old son Nikko perform his traditional Opening Day backflip before the Cardinals ' first home game of the 1986 season.

* Robert N. Sobel: RCA New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1986.

The 1986 Christmas Day episode of EastEnders is often given as the highest-rated UK soap opera episode ever, with 30. 15 million viewers ( in 2007, the UK had approximately 54 million viewers ).

The Christmas Day 1986 episode was watched by 30. 15 million viewers and contained a scene of divorce papers served to Angie Watts by her husband Den.

A scene from EastEnders on Christmas Day 1986, watched by 30. 15 million viewers.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, had been observed for the first time in 1986.

She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

It was also used in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the 1987 film Matewan, where it was used by Baldwin-Felts agents just before a violent attack on striking coal miners.

The Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act is referenced in multiple films, including the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dave Barry's Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, and a scene in the Transformers Animated episode " Transform and Roll Out " depicts the Tutor-Bot educating Sari Sumdac about the bill.

After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day ( 1985 ) and Parade ( 1986 ), The Revolution disbanded and Prince released the critically acclaimed double album Sign " O " the Times ( 1987 ) as a solo artist.

Day of the Dead would peak at 23 on the Billboard chart Top VHS Sales in 1986 a year after its initial release.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen coming of age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.

Released by Paramount Pictures on June 11, 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off became one of the top grossing films of the year and was enthusiastically received by critics and audiences alike.