On December 19, 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, who had initiated the policies of perestroika and glasnost, called Sakharov to tell him that he and his wife may return to Moscow.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

# A-4F Skyhawk – December 1974 – November 1986

In 1986, President Oscar Arias Sánchez declared December 1 as the Día de la Abolición del Ejército ( Military abolition day ) with Law # 8115.

He entered the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in 1982, and was scheduled to fly on mission STS-71-B in December 1986, but the mission was cancelled after the Challenger Disaster in January 1986.

The single, " Don't Dream It's Over ", was released in December 1986 and reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart and number eight in Australia.

Desi Arnaz ( March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986 ) was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer.

He died several months later on December 2, 1986, at the age of 69.

* Oral History interview transcript with Freeman J. Dyson 17 December 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

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

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

The second stage, completed in December 1986, linked Booué with Franceville ( 357 km ) via Moanda, thus facilitating exports of manganese from the southeast and forestry exploitation in the same region.

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Confident by the apparent sign of turnaround, GM paid off Holden's mounted losses of A $ 780 million on 19 December 1986.

His open endorsement of terrorism led to the Reagan administration declaring Libya a " state sponsor of terrorism " on 29 December 1979, and eventually culminated in the 1986 US Bombing of Libya.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.

High Sierra was adopted in December 1986 ( with changes ) as an international standard by Ecma International as ECMA-119 and submitted for fast tracking to the ISO, where it was eventually accepted as ISO 9660: 1988.

On 16 December 1986, the Soviet Politburo dismissed the long serving General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Dinmukhamed Konayev.

The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987, respectively.

To meet the game's projected release date of December 19, 1986, the staff members worked overtime and often stayed in the office at night.

In December 1986 he underwent intestinal surgery after suffering abdominal pains while at his ranch outside Tucson.

The first Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University was Alexander George Mitchell, who held the position until December 1975, when he was replaced by Edwin Webb, who served until 1986.

Minoru Yamasaki ( December 1, 1912 – February 7, 1986 ) was an American architect, best known for his design of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2.

A four-lane highway atop a causeway, linking Bahrain with the Saudi Arabian mainland via the island of Umm an-Nasan was completed in December, 1986, and financed by Saudi Arabia.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

* Roger Ebert, review, The Last Emperor, Chicago Sun-Times, December 9, 1987.

* George's Spink's article, " Glenn Miller: The Sound of an Era " written for the Chicago Sun-Times in December 1984 on the 40th anniversary of Miller's disappearance.

They included The New York Times ( 11 February ), USA Today ( March 15 ), Columbus Dispatch ( March 19 ), St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( April 1 ), New York Times ( April 3 ), Chicago Sun-Times ( April 22 ), Atlanta Journal-Constitution ( June 3 ), San Francisco Chronicle ( June 4 ), Village Voice ( June 6 ), VIBE magazine ( July ), Jet magazine ( September 8 ), Essence magazine ( October ), San Diego Union-Tribune ( December 2 ), and Los Angeles Times ( December 7 ).

Caniff produced his last strip of Terry and the Pirates in December 1946 and introduced his new strip Steve Canyon in the Chicago Sun-Times the following month.

Sydney J. Harris ( September 14, 1917 – December 8, 1986 ) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times.

In November 1993, during the key ratings sweeps period, Jacobson showed up on the news wearing a T-shirt, according to a December 19, 1993 article in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Yellen's most recent straight play is December Fools, a comedy-drama about a musical comedy composer's widow and her contentious daughter ; two women locked into the past who are struggling with each other in the present, produced by Abingdon Theatre Arts in New York, and in the same year, 2006, Josephine Tonight was produced by Theatre Building Chicago, a musical which The Chicago Sun-Times called a " shining new musical.

On December 14, 2010, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Mitchell would not be appearing on the new show.

In December 2006, after his release from federal prison, Whitacre was hired by Cypress Systems Inc., a California biotechnology company, as the President of Technology and Business Development.

The group was hired for a gig in December 1920, but a complaint was lodged with the American Federation of Musicians, Local 67, that the boys did not have union cards.

Also in December 1993, the Tribune hired Margaret Holt from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as its assistant managing editor for sports, making her the first female to head a sports department at any of the nation's 10 largest newspapers.

On December 13, 1929, the New York Rangers became the first team in the NHL to travel by plane when they hired the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to fly them to Toronto for a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs which they would lose 7-6.

In late 2004, with CTV beginning to dominate the ratings, Canwest reorganized its Canadian operations and hired a number of new executives, all formerly of various U. S. media firms, leading to a major overhaul of Global announced in December 2005.

The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of The Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.

In December 2011, the Carolina Hurricanes fired coach Paul Maurice and hired Kirk Muller.

Walt Disney Productions hired Gottfredson as an apprentice animator and in-betweener on December 19, 1929.

Conti Enterprises was hired for the project, which was announced complete in August 2009 at a ceremony by governor Jon S. Corzine and Stephen Dilts, the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation., though construction on minor work continues as of December 2009.

George Hall is the Chairman of the Fulton County Board and a former Board member since 2007, hired as Chairman by the Board in December 2010.

City officials in December were negotiating to establish reduced retirement benefits for employees hired after 2011.

On December 1, 1993, the district hired its first two full-time firefighters, Todd Zies and Steve Kish.

In December 1964, as her husband went into military service, brother Eddie hired two English songwriting session musicians, Tommy Brown on drums and Mick Jones on guitar, as they went to record in New York.

* 1946-Jean Rédélé finishes a trading school ( HEC, one of the best at this time ) and founded in Dieppe a company that he called " Société des Grands garages de Normandie " on December, 17th in premises that he hired to his father, in order to sell Renault cars.

The Provisional Government under W. T. Cosgrave hired the use of the main lecture theatre of the Royal Dublin Society in its headquarters in Leinster House, a formal ducal palace, to enable a formal state opening of the new two chamber Oireachtas of the new Irish Free State and the delivery of the speech from the throne by the new Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Tim Healy in December 1922.

In December 1935, Cleveland mayor Harold Burton hired him as the city's Safety Director, which put him in charge of both the police and fire departments.

In 1993 with the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was hired by U2 to provide the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour, and replaced BP Fallon on the 1993 legs in Europe and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, with more than fifty shows in Zooropa ' 93 and Zoomerang from 7 May to 10 December of the same year.

On December 1, 1989, Guber and Peters hired longtime lawyer of GPEC Alan J. Levine, to the post of president and COO of Columbia's newly formed company Filmed Entertainment Group ( FEG ).

However, on 27 December 1906, she was hired by the Edison Manufacturing Company to play Daniel Boone's daughter in Daniel Boone ; or, Pioneer days in America.

On 14 December 1922, John Reith was hired to become the Managing Director of the company at that address.

* 14 December: John C. W. Reith hired as the Company's Managing Director.

* There was also an Irish hired armed cutter Africa, of 70 tons burthen ( bm ), in Royal Navy service from 12 December 1803 to 12 January 1810.

In December 2005, Van Rossum was hired by Google.

In December 1956, Flanders and Swann hired the New Lindsey Theatre, Notting Hill, to perform their own two-man revue At the Drop of a Hat, which opened on New Year's Eve.

Having developed the prototype of the receiver by December, Zworykin met David Sarnoff, who eventually hired him and put him in charge of television development for RCA at their newly established laboratories in Camden, New Jersey.