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.

He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

General Kolingba was sworn in as constitutional President on 29 November 1986.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

Image: President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Camp David 1986. jpg | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan walk at Camp David in 1986.

* 1986 – Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure

* 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule ; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines ' first woman president.

* 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

The Institute was founded in 1986 by K. Eric Drexler, no longer with the Institute, along with his then wife Christine Peterson, who is now President.

Bongo was re-elected President in December 1979 and November 1986 to 7-year terms.

Upon its inauguration in January 1986, President Cerezo's civilian government announced that its top priorities would be to end the political violence and establish the rule of law.

In 1986, first Vice President Paulo Correia and five others were executed for treason following a lengthy trial.

President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

Doe was sworn in as President on January 6, 1986.

In 1986, President Reagan described the EITC as " the best anti poverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress.

Relations between Morocco and Mauritania continued to improve through 1986, reflecting President Taya's pragmatic, if unstated, view that only a Moroccan victory over the Polisario would end the guerrilla war in the Western Sahara.

In 1986, Mozambican President Samora Machel died in an air crash in South African territory.

On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill into law, which granted $ 1. 7 billion in funding to fight the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses.

* 1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U. S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

Vice President George H. Bush visited Oman in 1984 and 1986, and President Bill Clinton visited briefly in March 2000.

* 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician ( b. 1899 )

* 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete

* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

In 1986 he married his high school sweetheart, Suzanne ( Sue ), with whom he had three sons: Oscar, Tyrone, and Willard.

* Time After Time ( Oscar Peterson album ), including a version of the 1947 song, 1986

( Faber ) 1981-85 ; War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon ( Faber ) 1983 ; More Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Murray ) 1985 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Max Beerbohm ( Faber ) 1986 ; Letters of Max Beerbohm ( Murray ) 1986.

In 1986, she received a third Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Mrs. Norman in Children of a Lesser God.

She finally won the Oscar in 1986 for a performance in The Trip to Bountiful, which was based on a play by Horton Foote.

* Oscar Judd ( 1986 )

* Ray Milland ( 1907 – 1986 ), Oscar winning Hollywood actor ;

Created by Harry B. Martin, who drew it through 1903, it has since been drawn by Oscar Chopin, 1903 – 1910 ; S. Carlisle Martin, 1910 – 1932 ; Amadee Wohlschlaeger, 1932 – 1981 ; Albert Schweitzer, the first one to draw the Weatherbird in color, 1981 – 1986 ; and Dan Martin, 1986 – present.

Oscar Zariski ( born Oscher Zaritsky () April 24, 1899, in Kobrin, Russian Empire ( today Belarus ), died July 4, 1986, Brookline, Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.

" In 1986, a second award was established to honor and emulate the spirit of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, who was murdered on March 24, 1980.

* Little Shop of Horrors ( complete soundtrack, score by Miles Goodman ) 1986 ( Oscar nominee )

In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.

* Aliens ( Oscar Winner ) ( 1986 )

The 1986 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost was shot here.

* Oscar Goldman ( 1925 – 1986 ), American mathematician

In 1986 he formed FirstMedia, an investment firm which acquired Cinema Products Corporation, the maker of the Oscar winning Steadicam camera stabilization system.

Winkler produced such noteworthy features as Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight ( 1986 ) and back-to-back Costa-Gavras films, Betrayed ( 1988 ) and Music Box ( 1989 ), before receiving another Best Picture Oscar nomination for Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas ( 1990 ).