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.

The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

In 1986, the DOE announced its Human Genome Initiative.

CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.

In order to work, and as pointed out by Roger Penrose from 1986 on, inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions of its own, so that the problem ( or pseudoproblem ) of initial conditions is not solved: “ There is something fundamentally misconceived about trying to explain the uniformity of the early universe as resulting from a thermalization process.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

In September 1986, the Provisional IRA held a meeting of its General Army Convention ( GAC ), the organisation ’ s supreme decision-making body.

They increased the production of oil in 1986, reduced it in 1987 with a subsequent increase in 1988, but not to the levels of 1980 when production reached its highest level.

Between 1986 and 1992 there was an independent third channel but it was jointly owned by Yle and MTV ; only in 1993 did MTV get its own channel.

It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe ( 1986 ) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ( in English, Friday ) ( 1967 ).

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

Begun in 1986, Tubestock met its demise in 2006 when Hanover town ordinances and a lack of coherent student protest conspired to defeat the popular tradition.

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.

Exxon sold the Exxon Building ( 1251 Avenue of the Americas ), its former headquarters in Rockefeller Center, to a unit of Mitsui Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. in 1986 for $ 610 million.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

Movies which followed in its wake included Betty Blue ( 37 ° 2 le matin, 1986 ) by Beineix, The Big Blue ( Le Grand bleu, 1988 ) by Luc Besson, and The Lovers on the Bridge ( Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, 1991 ) by Léos Carax.

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

* 1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft.

* 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader ( b. 1917 )

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was able to get Karmal to step down as PDPA General Secretary in 1986, and replace him with Najibullah.

In June 1986 the Labour Party finally expelled the deputy leader of Liverpool council, the high profile Militant supporter Derek Hatton, who was found guilty of " manipulating the rules of the district Labour party ".

* 1986 – Cold War: U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

* 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

In a September 1986 speech in Vladivostok, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev offered the Chinese a more conciliatory position on Sino-Soviet border rivers.

Qaddafi then strongly supported Sudanese opposition leader Sadiq al Mahdi, who became prime minister on May 6, 1986.

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

The 1986 comedy Three Amigos directly parodies many aspects of The Magnificent Seven, from the hiring of a team of Americans to defend a small Mexican village, to the training of the villagers by the mercenaries, to the megalomaniacal over-the-top character of the Mexican gang leader.

In September 1986, in a confrontation between the German-national and liberal wings, Jörg Haider became leader of the FPÖ.

On February 28, 1986, the Social Democratic leader and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered ; shocked Swedes worried whether the nation had " lost its innocence ".

* Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, set in fictional Virgil, Texas.

Since 1986, ISARC has been a leader in mobilizing faith communities to advocate for systemic change in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Joop den Uyl, leader from 1966 until 1986

In 1986, Den Uyl left politics, appointing former trade union leader Wim Kok as his successor.

Wim Kok, party leader from 1986 until 2001

In 1986, Idle provided the voice of Wreck-Gar, the leader of the Junkions ( a race of robots built out of junk that can only speak in film catchphrases and advertising slogans ) in The Transformers: The Movie.

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Bildt was elected leader of the Moderate Party in 1986, succeeding Ulf Adelsohn.

His murder by an unapprehended assailant on a street in Stockholm on February 28, 1986 was the first of its kind in modern Swedish history, the first of a national leader since Gustav III, and had a great impact across Scandinavia.

Musicologist Richard J. Ripani identified Jackson as a leader in the development of contemporary R & B, as her 1986 album Control and its successor Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 created a unique blend of genre and sound effects, that ushered in the use of rap vocals into mainstream R & B.

In 1986, King Hassan II invited then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for talks, becoming the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader.

By the mid 1980s, a Loyalist paramilitary-style organisation called Ulster Resistance was formed on 10 November 1986 by Ian Paisley, then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), Peter Robinson of the DUP, and Ivan Foster.

He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.