Atomic semantics are defined formally in Lamport's " On Interprocess Communication " Distributed Computing 1, 2 ( 1986 ), 77-101.

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.

On January 1, 1986, the army was restructured from four numbered armies and two military commands into seven military commands.

On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.

On October 13, 1986, a meeting took place regarding the establishment of a permanent base for fishing at Clipperton, between the high commissioner of French Polynesia, representing the state, and the survey firm for the development and exploitation of the island ( SEDEIC ).

On November 18, 1986, Carangi, aged 26, died of AIDS-related complications.

On June 30, 1986, the 50th anniversary of the day Gone with the Wind went on sale, the U. S. Post Office issued a 1-cent stamp showing an image of Margaret Mitchell.

On 1 April 1986, the men's javelin () was redesigned by the governing body ( the IAAF Technical Committee ).

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

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

* On Wings of Eagles ( 1986 ) ( TV mini series ) ... Mohammed

On 5 April 1986, Libyan agents bombed " La Belle " nightclub in West Berlin, killing three people and injuring 229 people who were spending the evening there.

On 14 April 1986, the United States carried out Operation El Dorado Canyon against Gaddafi and members of his regime.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

On 13 November 2001, a German court found four persons, including a former employee of the Libyan embassy in East Berlin, guilty in connection with the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, in which 229 people were injured and two U. S. servicemen were killed.

On 14 October 1986, Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were.

On January 6, 1986, following the 1985 season, Bud Grant re-retired as head coach of the Vikings.

On August 2, 1986, Fran Tarkenton was the first player who played the majority of his career with the Vikings to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

* Comedians Do It On Stage ( 1986 )

* Comedians Do It On Stage ( 1986 )

On 23 August 1986, tens of thousands of demonstrators in 21 western cities including New York, London, Stockholm, Toronto, Seattle, and Perth participated in Black Ribbon Day Rallies to draw attention to the secret protocols.

On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill into law, which granted $ 1. 7 billion in funding to fight the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses.

On November 3, 1986 the United Nations General Assembly passed, by a vote of 94-3 ( El Salvador, Israel and the US voted against ), a non-binding resolution urging the US to comply.

On June 27, 1986, the Court made the following ruling:

On the next round, Rallye Deutschland, where he finished sixth, the car by itself was reliable, but the Norwegian hit a rock on SS5 heavily damaging the steering, which had cost him considerable amount of time because the team wasn't able to fully repair it.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

* Ethical works: De bono mortis ( Death as a Good ); De fuga saeculi ( Flight From the World ); De institutione virginis et sanctae Mariae virginitate perpetua ad Eusebium ( On the Birth of the Virgin and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary ); De Nabuthae ( On Naboth ); De paenitentia ( On Repentance ); De paradiso ( On Paradise ); De sacramentis ( On the Sacraments ); De viduis ( On Widows ); De virginibus ( On Virgins ); De virginitate ( On Virginity ); Exhortatio virginitatis ( Exhortation to Virginity ); De sacramento regenerationis sive de philosophia ( On the Sacrament of Rebirth, or, On Philosophy )

On the other hand, it now seems practically demonstrated that Alain de Lille was the author of the Ars catholicae fidei and the treatise Contra haereticos.

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

* John Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect ( de Anima 3. 4-8 ), translated by W. Charlton.

In 825 Al-Khwārizmī wrote a treatise in Arabic, On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, which was translated into Latin from Arabic in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum.

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

On this ship he took a detachment of troops from Rio de Janeiro to Colonia do Sacramento on the Rio de la Plata ( opposite Buenos Aires ) to relieve the garrison there.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

On 10 October 1868, landowner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes made the " Grito de Yara ", the " Cry of Yara ", declaring Cuban independence and freedom for his slaves.

On 6 April 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.

On 16 May 1545, Xavier wrote to the King of Portugal to establish the Inquisition in Goa: " The second necessity for the Christians is that Your Majesty establish the Holy Inquisition in Goa because there are many who live according to the Jewish Law and according to the Mohammedan Sect, without any fear of God or shame of the World.

On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.

On the strength of his knowledge and experience of Franco's Spain, he was put in charge of the subsection which dealt with Spain and Portugal.

On 26 February 1548 he recaptured Aden from the Portuguese, followed in 1552 by the capture of Muscat, which Portugal had occupied since 1507, and the strategically important island of Kish.

On the other hand, awareness in Portugal has been increasing under the efforts of pressure groups to have the question raised and debated in public.

* 1128: On June 24, Portugal gains independence from the Kingdom of León at the Battle of São Mamede ; ( recognised by León in 1143 ).

* 1139: On July 26, the Portuguese defeat the Almoravids led by Ali ibn Yusuf in the Battle of Ourique ; Prince Afonso Henriques is acclaimed King of Portugal by his soldiers.

On 13 September 1548, Maximilian married his first cousin Maria of Spain, daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella of Portugal.

On August 21, 1415, Ceuta, the city on the coast of North Africa directly across from Gibraltar, was conquered by Portugal, and the long-lived Portuguese Empire was founded.

On April 6, 1129, Afonso Henriques dictated the writ in which he proclaimed himself Prince of Portugal.

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

Comparative advantage was first described by David Ricardo who explained it in his 1817 book On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation in an example involving England and Portugal.

On 24 September 1650 General-at-Sea Robert Blake had defeated the Portuguese fleet in a violent gale, sinking the Portuguese Vice-Admiral and taking seven prizes, compelling Portugal to cease protecting Rupert.

On 12 July 1652, Ayscue intercepted a Dutch convoy returning from Portugal, capturing seven merchantmen and destroying three.

On her death in 1231, James exchanged the Balearic Islands for Urgell with her widower, Peter of Portugal.

On 10 March 1526, Charles married his first cousin Isabella of Portugal, sister of John III of Portugal, in Seville.

On 11 March 1945, Zarraonandía was selected by the Spanish coach Jacinto Quincoces to join the Spanish national team for a friendly match against Portugal in Lisbon.

On 6 May of that year he played against Portugal again, and scored two of the four goals that gave victory to his team.

On Wednesday, 19 November 2008, QPR named former Portugal midfielder Paulo Sousa as their new first team coach.

" On 15 June 2010, the Côte d ' Ivoire played out a 0 – 0 draw against Portugal in their opening game in Group G, followed by a 3 – 1 loss against Brazil on 20 June 2010.

On 27 October 1807, Spain's Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy and France signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, agreeing that after Spain and France had defeated Portugal, it would be split into three kingdoms: the new Kingdom of Northern Lusitania, the Algarve ( expanded to include Alentejo ), and a rump Kingdom of Portugal.