Its modern form derives from a World Health Organization ( WHO ) initiative on Healthy Cities and Villages in 1986, but has a history dating back to the mid 19th century.

" The term " Sick Building Syndrome " was coined by WHO in 1986 when they also estimated that 10-30 % of newly built office buildings in the West had indoor air problems.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) declared the virus officially eradicated in 1977 and after nine years, in 1986, all virus samples were destroyed or transferred to two approved WHO reference labs: at the headquarters of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( the C. D. C.

The Consultative Group met every two years with WHO / PBL, from 1986 to 1994.

Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986 – 87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.

The university started a number of postgraduate designer programs together with the other Dutch technical universities in 1986.

In Australia, the major Australian banks started issuing debit or EFTPOS cards ( each under a different brand name ) starting in 1986 and merchants started installing EFTPOS terminals at the same time.

The major Australian banks started issuing debit or EFTPOS cards ( each under a different brand name ) starting in 1986 and merchants started installing EFTPOS terminals at the same time.

This event, run entirely by local unpaid volunteers, was started in 1986 and has been run every year since.

Kermit was initially developed by and distributed for free by the Columbia University, until 1986 when Columbia founded the Kermit Project which took over development and started charging fees for commercial use.

In 1986, Mullis started to use Thermophilus aquaticus ( Taq ) DNA polymerase to amplify segments of DNA.

HBC Rewards / Club Z is a large program first started by Zellers in 1986 as Club Z. Loblaws offers the President's Choice Financial program where cardholders earn PC Points towards free groceries.

* 1986: BL plc becomes Rover Group plc ; Project Llama started

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986.

One line was the IBM PC compatible Intel i286 based Vectra Series started 1986.

In 1986 Hewlett Packard started using an early implementation of their PA-RISC in some of their computers.

By 1986, although still very much a minority sport, commercial snowboards started appearing in leading French ski resorts.

The 49ers ' only loss in the Superdome in the 1980s came in 1986, when Mike Moroski started for an injured Montana.

The group's worldwide buzz started with " Ego Trippin '," its first 12-inch single on Next Plateau Records in 1986 that was the first hip hop song to feature the " Synthetic Substitution " drum break sample.

This process started in May 1986, with the protocol finalized in August.

1986 ( MCMLXXXVI ) was a common year that started on a Wednesday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

The Soviet Vega 1 started returning images of Halley on 4 March 1986, and the first ever of its nucleus, and made its flyby on 6 March, followed by Vega 2 making its flyby on 9 March.

Kuensel was first started in Thimphu as a government bulletin in 1965, and then became a national weekly in 1986 and was the only newspaper in Bhutan until 2006 when two other news papers namely, the Bhutan Times and Bhutan Observer, were introduced.

In 1985, research on a second-generation RISC architecture started at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, producing the " AMERICA architecture "; in 1986, IBM Austin started developing the RS / 6000 series, based on that architecture.

The 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico was broadcast to a global audience, and the wave was popularized world-wide after featuring during the tournament.

By the late 1980s, Audiotex and Interactive Voice Response ( IVR ) techniques pioneered by VMI became global standards for businesses communications. Data Communications, November 1986 – Audiotex: The Telephone as Data Access Equipment. Modern Office Technology, March 1986 – Voice Soars at TWA.

at: 1986 text: 1st nonstop unrefueled global circumnavigation

Paul Hogan went from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 ( a film which begins with scenes of Sydney ) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe forged their early careers in the city.

Replacing original guitarist Andy Taylor in August 1986, he performed on the albums Notorious (' 86 ) and Big Thing (' 88 ), and was the sole guitarist on the global tours that followed.

He was appointed Head of Eurobond trading in 1986 and later rose to become head of global asset structuring world-wide for Goldman's European division in 1990.

As part of a Commonwealth-wide tour for her Silver Jubilee, Elizabeth was in New Zealand from 22 February to 7 March 1977 ; she made a brief visit, between 12 and 20 October, following a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM ) in Melbourne ; marked the centennial of the New Zealand Police during a tour from 22 February to 2 March 1986 ; the Queen closed the Commonwealth Games in Auckland and, with her son, Prince Edward, took part in events marking the sesquicentennial of the Treaty of Waitangi between 1 and 16 February 1990 ; between 1 and 10 November 1995, she attended the CHOGM in Auckland and opened the newly refurbished parliament buildings ; and, as part of her global tour for her Golden Jubilee, Elizabeth was in New Zealand from 22 to 27 February 2002.

During his twenty years as the senior partner of Sutter Hill, Draper helped to organize and finance several hundred high technology manufacturing companies. In 1986, he became the head of the world's largest source of multilateral development grant assistance, the United Nations Development Programme, and was instrumental in leadership of several global initiatives, such as the international Education for All movement ( beginning formally with the 1990 Conference in Jomtien, Thailand ), the 1995 Beijing Women's ' Conference, and the 1995 Social Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 1986, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center was created in Nanjing, China, completing the school's global presence.

In 1986 Prochlorococcus was found by Sallie W. ( Penny ) Chisholm and colleagues ; Prochlorococcus may be responsible for a significant portion of the global primary production.

1986: Blue Bell merges with the VF Corporation of Pennsylvania, preparing the ground for the global success of the Wrangler brand.

Cuisine magazine, first published in 1986, has earned global fame and is held in high prestige among the worldwide foodie communities.

Other topics covered include the Fairness Doctrine, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Noam Chomsky, global warming, Roy Benavidez, the Trident submarine, the Star Wars program, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the Iran-Contra Affair, the War Powers Act, US invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, the Invasion of Grenada, Óscar Romero, the El Mozote massacre, the 1986 Bombing of Libya, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States invasion of Panama, and the Gulf War.

The penises of larger whales came from commercial whaling stations, although this source dried up after the International Whaling Commission implemented a global ban on commercial whaling in 1986.

His book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan ’ s Competitive Success ( 1986 ) was an instant global bestseller, firmly embedding the word Kaizen in the corporate lexicon.

In late 1986 she released “ Valeria Canta el Tango ”, becoming the biggest selling album of tango in Argentina phonographic history, according to CAPIF 2009 ( global level the record is Julio Iglesias with her album " Tango ") and filmed in Puerto Rico with Raul Julia movie Tango Bar, which travels at different film festivals around the world.

In 1986, Bandem initiated The First International Gamelan Festival ; an evaluation on the advancement of gamelan in the global milieu that was conducted in conjunction with the 1986 Vancouver Expo in Canada.

The works were created when Bausch was invited to visit and stay in 10 global locations – in India, Brazil, Palermo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Budapest, Istanbul, Santiago, Rome and Japan – between 1986 and 2009.

* 1986 – The " Big Bang " ( deregulation of London financial markets ) served as a catalyst to reaffirm London's position as a global centre of world banking.