The 1986 presidential election was won by Óscar Arias of the PLN.

Citizen exhaustion due to the conflict's newfound intensity led to the election of president Belisario Betancur ( 1982 – 1986 ), a Conservative who won 47 % of the popular vote, directed peace feelers at all the insurgents, and negotiated a 1984 cease-fire with the FARC and M-19 after a 1982 release of many guerrillas imprisoned during the previous effort to overpower them.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

) Dalglish's final appearance for Scotland, after 15 years as a full international, was on 12 November 1986 at Hampden Park in a Euro 1988 qualifying game against Luxembourg, which Scotland won 3 – 0.

The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has won 24 major honours since he took over in November 1986.

The story was a sensation, and won the 1986 Seiun Award for Best Manga.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

In addition, as a producer she received nominations for Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for MTM's productions of Noises Off in 1984 and Benefactors in 1986, and won a Tony Award for Best Reproduction of a Play or Musical in 1985 for Joe Egg.

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

In 1986, they easily won the division with one of the best records of 108-54 in National League history.

The Mets continued playing well after 1986 and won the division in 1988, but lost the playoffs that year and declined into the 1990s.

By the end of the 2005 season, Clemens had won seven Cy Young Awards ( he won the AL award in 1986,,,,, and, and the National League award in ), an MVP and two pitching triple crowns.

He has also won The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award five times, was named an All-Star 11 times, and won the All-Star MVP in 1986.

In 1986, UP candidates won 350 local council seats, 23 deputy positions in departmental assemblies, 9 seats in the House, and 6 seats in the Senate.

The 1986 Presidential candidate, Jaime Pardo Leal, won 4. 6 % of the national vote.

Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award in 1986 and the Hugo Award in 1987.

Under Roger Craig's leadership ( and his unique motto, " Humm Baby ") the Giants won 83 games in 1986 and won the National League Western Division title in 1987.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

* 1986 – Aaron Curry, American football player

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 1986 – Athena Lundberg, American model

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Dianna Agron, American actress, singer, and dancer

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Mario, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

* 1986 – Reby Sky, American model and wrestler

* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Tyler " Telle " Smith, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Word Alive and In Fear and Faith )

* 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer

* 1986 – Pierre Garçon, American football player

* 1986 – Cody Lightning, American actor

* 1986 – Peyton List, American actress

* 1986 – Chris Pressley, American football player

* 1986 – Charlotte Stokely, American porn actress

* 1957 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Terin Humphrey, American gymnast

* 1986 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor

* 1986 – Kyle Arrington, American football player

* 1986 – Holley Ann Dorrough, American model