* 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.

LaPread left in 1986 and moved to New Zealand, and Reynolds departed for Earth, Wind and Fire in 1987, which prompted trumpeter William " WAK " King to take over primary guitar duties for live performances.

He also appeared as Jareth, the Goblin King, in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, for which he wrote five songs.

* Scarecrow and Mrs. King ( 1985 – 1986 )

* Michael King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior ( Penguin Books, 1986 ).

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

Under a January 1986 Military Council decree, state executive and legislative powers were transferred to the King who was to act on the advice of the Military Council, a self-appointed group of leaders of the Royal Lesotho Defense Force ( RLDF ).

* 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

They were the first to earn a platinum record ( King of Rock, 1985 ), the first to earn a multi-platinum certification ( Raising Hell, 1986 ) the first to have videos on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and the cover of Rolling Stone.

King is a fan of the rock band AC / DC, who did the soundtrack for his 1986 film, Maximum Overdrive.

In 1986, he moved to Oxford, England to do research for The Pendragon Cycle, a reinterpretation of the legend of King Arthur in a Celtic setting combined with elements of Atlantis.

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

Several months later it was picked up for worldwide daily distribution by King Features Syndicate in 1986.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor ( previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield ; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986 ), was an American socialite whose third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, abdicated his throne to marry her.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

The Body is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and in 1986 adapted into the acclaimed film Stand by Me.

* 1986: Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller: Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King

McGing, The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus, BRILL, 1986

* A Triumph of Roses ( 1986 ) about William fitzWilliam Marshal and Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of King John and sister of King Henry III

* King Solomon's Mines ( 1986 telemovie ), an Australian animated film from the Burbank studios

In 1986 Tim King left his job at MetaComCo, along with a few other employees, to start Perihelion Software in England.

In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims ( a black Democrat from Seattle ), and Bruce Laing ( a white Republican from suburban Renton ) to change the namesake to Martin Luther King, Jr. On March 12, 2007, the new logo was unveiled.

* 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer ( b. 1916 )

Between 1980 and 1986, Hassan also studied at the Somali National University, where he obtained a degree in Law.

The Faisal Mosque was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 until 1993, when it was overtaken in size upon the completion of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco.

* A Time to Triumph ( 1986 )-Chuck Hassan

The Anfal campaign began in 1986 and lasted until 1989, and was headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid ( a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Saddam's hometown of Tikrit ).

In 1986 an SSDF congress was held, which elected Dr. Hassan Ali Mireh as chairman.

Work on the mosque was commenced on 12 July 1986 on the site of an old swimming pool, and was intended to be completed for the 60th birthday of the former Moroccan king, Hassan II, in 1989.

In 1986, Sadiq formed a coalition government comprising the Umma Party ( which he led ); the National Islamic Front ( led by his brother-in-law, Hassan al-Turabi ); the Democratic Unionist Party ( led by al-Sayyid Muhammad Othman al-Mirghani ); and four small Southern parties.

* 66 Joora 1986 Anjuman, Yousuf Khan, Ali Ejaz, Sangeeta, Bindia, Iqbal Hassan

* Donald Routledge Hill and Ahmad Y Hassan ( 1986 ), Islamic technology – an illustrated history, ISBN 0-521-26333-6.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

( 1986 ) Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910, London: Ravens Educational & Development Services, ISBN 0-947895-01-9

** Gauntlet II, a 1986 arcade sequel.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

* The Zork Trilogy ( 1986 ; contained Zork I, Zork II & Zork III )

SALT II was never ratified by the United States Senate, but its terms were nevertheless honored by both sides until 1986, when the Reagan administration " withdrew " after accusing the USSR of violating the pact.

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

* Might and Magic: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum ( 1986 ; Apple II, Mac, DOS, Commodore 64, NES, MSX, PC-Engine CD-ROM )

* 1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China

By 1986, for the first time since World War II, women students outnumbered men.

He played the part of mad bomber Joe Selucci in Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 ) and in the 1986 horror movie Troll.

* Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome ( 1986 )

* Knaack, Marcelle Size, Post-World War II Fighters 1945 – 1973, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, Washington DC 1986.

In 1986, UC Berkeley initiated their second SETI effort, SERENDIP II, and has continued with four more SERENDIP efforts to the present day.

By 1986 only 2, 157 remained in custody and only 39 were still being held in 1989 when they were released under the Esquipulas II agreement.

Taiwan has used Wade – Giles for decades as the de facto standard, co-existing with several official but obscure romanizations in succession, namely, Gwoyeu Romatzyh ( 1928 ), MPS II ( 1986 ), and Tongyong pinyin ( 2000 ).

In Spring 1986, Kurt Waldheim was elected president amid considerable national and international protest because of his possible involvement with the Nazis and war crimes during World War II.

The Organiser I ( launched in 1984 ) and Organiser II ( launched in 1986 ) had a characteristic hard plastic sliding cover protecting a 6x6 keyboard with letters arranged alphabetically.

In 1986, the successful Organiser II introduced a number of hardware improvements, a better keyboard and display, a much larger ROM and either 8K or 16K of battery-backed RAM, and featured a capable newly-designed single-tasking operating system.

In 1986, the vastly improved Psion Organiser II was released.

* This song is featured in the 1986 film The Karate Kid Part II when Daniel Larusso ( Ralph Macchio ) and his girlfriend Kumiko ( Tamlyn Tomita ) burn the house down to this in a 50s cafe.

* MacDonald, William L., The Architecture of the Roman Empire II: An Urban Appraisal, Yale University Press, 1986

Inside the Mausoleum itself are the remains of the last four sultans, Haji Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddin ( 1950 – 1967 ), who died in 1986, Ahmad Tajuddin Ibnu Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam ( 1924 – 1950 ), Muhammad Jamalul Alam Ibnu Sultan Hashim ( 1906 – 1924 ), and Hashim Jalilul Alam Putera Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II ( 1885 – 1906 ).

* Selected Poems II: 1976 – 1986 ( US )