* 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U. S. servicemen, U. S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.

After Sarah's death, Fleming married Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's, on 9 April 1953 ; she died in 1986.

* Marschall, Rick, Nemo, the Classic Comics Library # 18, pp. 3 – 32 ( April 1986 )

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser ( Howitzer ) Moving Company stole the 130-year-old, 1. 7-ton Fleming House cannon and moved it over 3000 miles to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for their 2006 Campus Preview Weekend, repeating a similar prank performed by nearby Harvey Mudd College in 1986.

In April 1986, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's judgment.

" Intervening in the Oil Market ", The New York Times, April 13, 1986.

The Javits Center opened on April 3, 1986, to a generally positive reception.

In April 1986, nine-year-old Judit played in her first rated tournament in the U. S., finishing first in the unrated section of the New York Open, winning $ 1, 000.

On 1 April 1986, the men's javelin () was redesigned by the governing body ( the IAAF Technical Committee ).

On 5 April 1986, Libyan agents bombed " La Belle " nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people and injuring 229 people who were spending the evening there.

On 14 April 1986, the United States carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon against Gaddafi and members of his regime.

The high water records were set from 1986 ( April ) through January 1987.

* 1986: Range Rover is introduced to the U. S market in April 1986

The apostolic constitution Spirituali militum curae of 21 April 1986 raised their status, declaring that the bishop who heads one of them is an " ordinary ", holding authority by virtue of his office, and not by delegation from another person in authority.

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In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

He wed the much-younger Mary Whitaker in 1986 and they had two children, son Chesare Elan on April 25, 1988 and daughter Chianna Maria on February 2, 1991.

Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, STS-51-L on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members.

After Amstrad acquired Sinclair's computer products lines in April 1986, the QL was officially discontinued.

Decommissioned on December 1, 1983, Thomas A. Edison was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on April 30, 1986.

Mandela's reputation was damaged by her rhetoric, the most noteworthy example of this being a speech she gave in Munsieville on 13 April 1986, where she endorsed the practice of necklacing ( burning people alive using tyres and petrol ) in the struggle to end apartheid.

* April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.

* April 15 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1986 )

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

93, pp. 2686 – 2689, April 1996.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Albert Sidney Johnston ( February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862 ) served as a general in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

Medical Hypotheses, April 1999 ; 53 ( 4 ): 338 – 344.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* April Fools ' Day – April 1

* Good Friday ( Christians ) – a Friday between March 20 and April 23, being the last Friday before Easter

* Arbor Day ( Korea ) – April 5

* End of Tax Year ( UK ) – April 5

* World Health Day – April 7

* Buddha's Birthday – Traditional Date – April 8

* Araw ng Kagitingan, also known as " Bataan Day " ( Philippines ) – April 9

* Thai New Year in Thailand – April 13

* Lao New Year in Laos – April 13

* Khmer New Year in Cambodia – April 13

* Tax Day ( US ) – April 15

* 4: 20 – April 20

* Patriots ' Day – April 21

* Earth Day – April 22

* Conch Republic Independence Celebration ( Key West, Florida ) – April 23

* St George's Day Patron Saint Celebration ( England, Europe ) – April 23