The process of democratization quickened in 1986 with the creation of a new political party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain ( RDC ), and the drafting of a new constitution that subsequently was ratified in a national referendum.

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

Stymied by economic crisis, FitzGerald tried to rescue some of his ambitions to reform the State and he proposed, in the summer of 1986, a referendum to change the Constitution to allow for divorce.

In 1986, however, Demirel launched a national campaign for the lifting of the bans and initiated a national referendum on the issue.

This was opposed by Fianna Fáil and the Catholic Church and the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1986 ( Ireland ) was defeated in a referendum.

The González administration organised a referendum on the question in 1986, calling for a favourable vote, and won.

In 1985 the board voted to close the San Francisco office and move to Washington, D. C .. A referendum of the membership supported the board majority, and Brower resigned in 1986 to work through his Earth Island Institute.

A nonpartisan democracy might take root in other sovereign nations, such as occurred in Uganda in 1986, whereby political parties were restricted by a constitutional referendum endorsed by the people of the country ( this system did not have all of the features described above ).

On 12 March 1986 Spain held a referendum on whether to remain in NATO, with the government and Solana successfully campaigning in favour.

After overthrowing Dacko in 1981, Kolingba established a Military Committee for National Reconstruction to rule the country, but in fact he ruled as a military dictator more corrupt than brutal until 1986, when he submitted a Constitution to a national referendum.

Ahead of Sudan ’ s April 2010 national elections – the first in the war-torn country since 1986 – and the January 2011 referendum, USIP staff traveled to some of the more unstable regions to help prepare people for the elections.

This referendum was duly held on 27 February 1986 and approved by the Danish people by 56. 2 % voting in favour to 43. 8 % against on a turnout of 75. 4 %.

* Danish Single European Act referendum, 1986

It was put to a referendum on 26 June 1986 but was defeated.

In 1985, O ' Leary introduced a private member's bill on divorce which forced the government into holding the 1986 divorce referendum.

Always a liberal and a feminist, she took a strongly supportive position on the legalisation of divorce, which was defeated in a referendum in 1986, and frequently suggested that her support for liberalisation of Ireland's pro-life laws.

* On 26 February 1986, Denmark held a referendum on the Single European Act.

EE called for a " no " on the membership of Spain in NATO in the referendum held in 1986.

In 1986, she was among the promoters of a referendum against nuclear energy that led to the rejection of a civil nuclear energy programme in Italy.

The first attempt to remove the ban on divorce was the 1986 divorce referendum, held by the Fine Gael government of Garret FitzGerald.

The outcome of the 1986 referendum on membership in NATO committed the Spanish government to negotiate the reduction of the United States military presence in Spain.

In 1986, after a referendum, Paralimni was declared a municipality with the name " Paralimni ".

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.

* 1986 – hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.

After Sarah's death, Fleming married Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's, on 9 April 1953 ; she died in 1986.

The 1000-page autobiographical manuscript Récoltes et semailles ( 1986 ) is now available on the internet in the French original, and an English translation is underway ( these parts of Récoltes et semailles have already been translated into Russian and published in Moscow ).

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.

AIX Version 1, introduced in 1986 for the IBM 6150 RT workstation, was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2.

In 1986 the US Patent and Trademarks Office allowed the granting of a patent on the ayahuasca vine B. Caapi.

Susan George of the Transnational Institute has also been a long-term influence on the movement, as the writer of books since 1986 on hunger, debt, international financial institutions and capitalism.

The Atari 7800 languished on warehouse shelves until it was re-introduced in January 1986 after strong 2600 sales the previous Christmas.

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.

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.

The Berlin Wall in 1986, painted on the western side.

While supervising the ceasefire after the Agacher Strip War, an FABF SA. 316B Alouette III crashed at Kouni on 14 January 1986, leaving only one SA. 316B still in service with the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

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.

The MVP award has been given to a player on the losing team twice, in 1986 to Mike Scott of the Houston Astros and in 1987 to Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Giants.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

It is based on Taito's popular 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game.

The characters and theme of the game are based on the 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble.

Then in 1986, William H. Shea, Ph. D. in Archeology, expanded on Lenglet's foundation to include the entire book of Daniel.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

It had not had a permanent home since 1966 and had been on the verge of folding as early as 1986.