The name was changed into AZ in July 1986 ; internationally, the tautology AZ Alkmaar is often used.

A series of largely unsuccessful 5-year plans initiated in July 1986 in partnership with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attempted to reform the foreign exchange system, liberalize imports, reduce restrictions on international transactions, diversify exports, and reform the coffee industry.

State Department spokesman Charles Redman, at a July 1, 1986 press briefing, defended SOUTHCOM's strategy, asserting that " These cooperatives, this was what was attacked in Nicaragua, often have a dual military-economic purpose .."

ELO's last performance of the century occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany playing as support band to Rod Stewart.

Open Court Classics, July 1986.

James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( July 17, 1899March 30, 1986 ) was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact.

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.

In July 1986, Leszek Miller was elected the 1st Secretary of the PZPR Provincial Committee in Skierniewice.

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Gorbachev had signaled Soviet interest in improving relations with all countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including South Korea, as explained in his July 1986 Vladivostok and August 1988 Krasnoyarsk speeches.

Discovery had been twice chosen as the " Return To Flight " Orbiter, first in 1988 after the 1986 Challenger disaster, and then for the twin " Return To Flight " missions in July 2005 and July 2006 after the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Founded July 14, 1986, Square took the lead of this promising alliance to produce games on the Famicom Disk System.

In July 1986, the slam moved to its permanent home, the Green Mill Jazz Club.

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.

* July 25 – Jane Frank, American artist ( d. 1986 )

* July 30 – Henry Moore, English sculptor ( d. 1986 )

* July 6 – Willy Coppens, Belgian World War I flying ace ( d. 1986 )

* July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Dick Grune developed CVS as a series of shell scripts in July 1986.

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Hyman George Rickover ( January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986 ) was a four-star admiral of the United States Navy who directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of Naval Reactors.

He appeared at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, with vibraphonist Gary Burton in July 1986 and on 6 September 1987 gave a concert in New York ’ s Central Park, in the city where he spent his childhood.

* 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China ( Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607 ).

As of July 2002, the fate of the Minas Gerais was still unknown, with China having reportedly made a surprise bid for its purchase.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.

In July 1980, China set up its embassy in Ecuador.

In July 1981, Ecuador set up its embassy in China.

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

On July 27, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave the order to act ruthlessly towards the rebels: " Mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken.

* Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day in Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China July 1

The firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. began in Canton, China on 1 July 1832 by Scottish doctor William Jardine and Edinburgh University graduate James Matheson.

Following a long record of instigating localized conflicts throughout the 1930s, Japan began a full-scale invasion of China on 7 July 1937.

The basic labour laws are the Labour Law of People's Republic of China ( promulgated on 5 July 1994 ) and the Law of the People's Republic of China on Employment Contracts ( Adopted at the 28th Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on June 29, 2007, Effective from January 1, 2008 ).

In July 1922, the Second Congress of the Communist Party took place in Shanghai ; while Mao lost the address and was unable to attend, the delegates decided to finally adopt the Leninist advice by agreeing to an alliance with the " bourgeois democrats " of the Kuomintang for the good of the " national revolution " to unite China and free it of foreign imperialist influence.

On the international front, in late July 2002, the Republic of China ( commonly known after its largest island as Taiwan ) cut its diplomatic ties with Nauru.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mongolia from China on July 11, 1921.

In July 2012, China established Sansha City covering these islands as one of the three townships in the city.

In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China ( the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan ) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.

Moreover, towards concluding the Pacific Theatre of War, the Potsdam Conference issued the Potsdam Declaration, the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender ( 26 July 1945 ) wherein the Western Allies ( UK, US, USSR ) and the Nationalist China of General Chiang Kai-shek asked Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

In July 2007, the China state-owned oil company CNOOC signed an agreement with the Somali government to search for oil in the Mudug region of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland ; a competing oil company estimated the total reserves in Puntland could amount to five to ten billion barrels of oil.

Under the Republic of China ( 1911 – 1949 ), Shanghai's political status was finally raised to that of a municipality on 14 July 1927.

As vassal of Ming China, the Koreans at first refused talks entirely, and in April and July 1591 refused demands that Japanese troops be allowed to march through Korea.

In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Beijing after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China.