* 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U. S. servicemen, U. S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.

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.

* 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.

Bongo was elected president in February 1975 and re-elected in December 1979 and November 1986 to seven-year terms.

He served as the president of the Marine Biological Association ( MBA ) from 1986 to 1990, and has been an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford ( formerly Green College, Oxford ) since 1994.

He also assisted Campaign for Better Transport and others with campaigns on sustainable transport, particularly those relating to urban areas, and has been president of the campaign since 1986.

* 30-Barber B. Conable, 81, New York Congressman, president of the World Bank from 1986 – 1991.

Miguel Trovoada, a former prime minister who had been in exile since 1986, returned as an independent candidate and was elected president.

" He also served as president of the Paleontological Society ( 1985 – 1986 ) and the Society for the Study of Evolution ( 1990 – 1991 ).

* 1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.

In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.

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.

In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that " Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games.

From 1942 to 1974 she was the museum's president and chairman after which she functioned as honorary chairman until her death in 1986.

Foreign Minister Choudhury served as president of the 41st UN General Assembly in 1986.

Following Reid's retirement, former NHL referee-in-chief Scotty Morrison, who was the president of the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1986, was appointed curator.

* In 1986 he was named president of the credit institution La Caixa, which was already a member advisor since 1984.

He also became involved in the regional politics of Auvergne, serving as president of that region from 1986 to 2004.

In November 1986, Mohammad Najibullah, former chief of the Afghan secret police ( KHAD ), was elected president and a new constitution was adopted.

In 1986, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas ( former Governor of Michoacán and son of the former president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas ) formed the " Democratic Current " ( Spanish: Corriente Democrática ) of the PRI, which criticized the federal government for reducing spending on social programs to increase payments on foreign debt.

* Mary Trinh Pentel, M. D., dermatologist and president of Southside Dermatology, Jacksonville, FL, graduated in 1986

On June 19, 1986, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting president to speak at a high school graduation when he spoke at the Glassboro High School commencement ceremonies.

Giamatti served as president of Yale University from 1978 to 1986.

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

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.

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.

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986 ), better known as L. Ron Hubbard and often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American pulp fiction author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.

* 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 ).

* 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.

* Ronald Dworkin, A Matter of Principle ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986 ).

* Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986 ).

In November 1986 as the sale of weapons was made public, North was fired by President Ronald Reagan, and in July 1987 he was summoned to testify before televised hearings of a joint Congressional committee formed to investigate Iran-Contra.

William Rehnquist ( left ) takes the oath as Chief Justice from retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1986, as his wife, Natalie, holds the Bible and President Ronald Reagan ( far right ) looks on.

( Richard Lester, 1965 ) and played leads in All The Way Up ( James MacTaggart, 1970 ), The Chain ( Jack Gold, 1984 ), The Dunera Boys ( Ben Lewin, 1985 ) and Foreign Body ( Ronald Neame, 1986 ).

* Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy ( Oxford University Press, 1986 ; Clarendon reprint with corrections, 1989 ) ISBN 0-19-814731-7

The term " weapons of mass destruction " continued to see periodic use throughout this time, usually in the context of nuclear arms control ; Ronald Reagan used it during the 1986 Reykjavík Summit, when referring to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the South Lawn.

* Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( 1911 – 1986 ), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author and founder of Scientology

According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, " Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year.

* Sir Ronald Gould ( 1904 — 1986 ), General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1947 — 1970, was educated at Shepton Mallet Grammar School.

Spielberg with President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, fans of the film, in 1986

* Neufeldt, Ronald W. ( 1986 ).

* Ronald McNair, ( October 21, 1950-January 28, 1986 ), a graduate of North Carolina A & T State University, was one of the astronauts killed during the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, mission STS-51-L.

* 1986: Marlene Hultman, Ronald Siddell, Roland Stemmer, Mona Howell, Thomas Howerton, Bob McBride, Brian Sullivan