In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

This was followed quickly by DEC's Unibus to Ethernet adapter, which DEC sold and used internally to build its own corporate network, which reached over 10, 000 nodes by 1986, making it one of the largest computer networks in the world at that time.

In addition to that, the world's two largest floorball leagues, Finland's Salibandyliiga and Sweden's Svenska Superligan were formed, in 1986 and 1995 respectively.

The world's largest creator of Karaoke tracks, Blank Productions USA, ( since 1986 ), produces between 40 and 60 titles per month, adding to their 25, 000 title library, which is licensed to manufacturers and content providers.

Although the industrial sector has traditionally been Taiwan's largest energy consumer, its share has dropped in recent years from 62 % in 1986 to 58 % in 2002.

Founded in 1986, incorporated in 1993 the Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, claims to have the largest summer league in the world with 354 teams and over 5000 players as of 2004.

Another tower in Oklahoma, built in 1986 and billed as the " largest water tower in the country ", is tall, can hold, and is located in Edmond.

Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth until its deorbit on 21 March 2001 ( a record now surpassed by the International Space Station ).

The Amelia County Fair was home to the world's largest potato pancake ( with apple sauce ) which was built to raise money for the German American National Scholarship Fund in 1986.

Pollardstown Fen is the largest remaining calcareous fen in Ireland, covering an area of 220 hectares and is recognised as an internationally important fen ecosystem with unique and endangered plant communities, and declared a National Nature Reserve in 1986.

The mill was owned by Crown Zellerbach until 1986 and its brown paper successor Gaylord Container Corporation until 2002, when Gaylord was acquired by Temple-Inland Corporation, the area's largest employer.

The statue, named " Big Tom ", was finished in 1986 and stood tall earning Frazee the title of " Home of the world's largest turkey.

Eastern remained one of the largest employers in the Miami metropolitan area until ongoing labor union unrest, coupled with the airline's acquisition by union antagonist Frank Lorenzo in 1986, ultimately forced the airline into bankruptcy in 1989.

Established in 1986, as of 2007, they produced 48, 000 cases of wine, making it the 14th largest bonded winery in Oregon.

It is the largest on the East Coast, home to 715 craft including high-speed ferry service to New York City which was introduced in 1986.

* Operation Brasstacks: ( the largest of its kind in South Asia ), conducted by India between November 1986 and March 1987, and Pakistani mobilisation in response, raised tensions and fears that it could lead to another war between the two neighbours.

R. J. Reynolds ' largest plant, Tobaccoville, a 2 million square foot ( 190, 000 m² ) facility constructed in 1986, is located in the town of Tobaccoville, North Carolina near Winston-Salem.

The PPR which had been the largest party in 1986 got the top candidate ( taken by Ria Beckers ) and the number five, the PSP the numbers two and six, the CPN the number three and the EVP number eleven.

The Anglican Church ( formerly known as the Church of England ) remained the largest denomination until 1986, when it was surpassed by the Roman Catholic Church.

* From 1981 to 1986, Pacific Legal Foundation and San Luis Obispo County, California, filed a suit attempting to obtain the mailing list of the Abalone Alliance to get the group to pay for the police costs of the largest anti-nuclear civil-disobedience act in U. S. history at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

The Badshahi Mosque in Pakistan remained the largest mosque ever built until the Grand Mosque in Mecca was constructed in 1986.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o's literary works include Caitani Mutharabaini ( 1981 ), Matigari ( 1986 ) and Murogi wa Kagogo ( Wizard of the Crow ( 2006 )) which is the largest known Kikuyu language novel having been translated into more than thirty languages

The Kop at Hillsborough was re-opened in 1986 by Queen Elizabeth II and was once the largest covered stand of any football stadium in Europe.

For example, right after the legislative election of 1986, President François Mitterrand appointed Jacques Chirac as prime minister, Chirac was a member of the RPR and a political opponent of Mitterrand's, and despite the fact the Mitterrand's own Socialist Party was still the largest party in the Assembly, the RPR had an ally in the UDF, which gave them a majority.

At the 1986 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, its organizers, Kenneth Feder, Luanne Hudson and Francis Harrold decided to hold a symposium to examine pseudoarchaeological beliefs from a variety of academic standpoints, including archaeology, physical anthropology, sociology, history and psychology.

In 1986 the TRON Kyogikai ( unincorporated TRON Association ) was established, Hitachi announced its ITRON implementation based on the ITRON / 68K specification, and the first TRON project symposium is held.

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.

* 1986 – hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.

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.

The 1000-page autobiographical manuscript Récoltes et semailles ( 1986 ) is now available on the internet in the French original, and an English translation is underway ( these parts of Récoltes et semailles have already been translated into Russian and published in Moscow ).

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

AIX Version 1, introduced in 1986 for the IBM 6150 RT workstation, was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2.

In 1986 the US Patent and Trademarks Office allowed the granting of a patent on the ayahuasca vine B. Caapi.

Susan George of the Transnational Institute has also been a long-term influence on the movement, as the writer of books since 1986 on hunger, debt, international financial institutions and capitalism.

The Atari 7800 languished on warehouse shelves until it was re-introduced in January 1986 after strong 2600 sales the previous Christmas.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

The Berlin Wall in 1986, painted on the western side.

While supervising the ceasefire after the Agacher Strip War, an FABF SA. 316B Alouette III crashed at Kouni on 14 January 1986, leaving only one SA. 316B still in service with the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

A series of largely unsuccessful 5-year plans initiated in July 1986 in partnership with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attempted to reform the foreign exchange system, liberalize imports, reduce restrictions on international transactions, diversify exports, and reform the coffee industry.

The MVP award has been given to a player on the losing team twice, in 1986 to Mike Scott of the Houston Astros and in 1987 to Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Giants.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

It is based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game.

The characters and theme of the game are based on the 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble.

Then in 1986, William H. Shea, Ph. D. in Archeology, expanded on Lenglet's foundation to include the entire book of Daniel.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

It had not had a permanent home since 1966 and had been on the verge of folding as early as 1986.