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45 oil platform workers and flight crew are killed in the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash on the approach to Sumburgh Airport in Shetland, with just 2 survivors. Chancellor Nigel Lawson announces a £4.6 billion rise in public spending.
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7th:The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announces that a record of more than 1.8 million new cars were sold in Britain during 1985, beating the previous record set in 1983. The Ford Escort was Britain’s most popular new car, and all of the 10 top selling new cars were produced by Ford, Vauxhall or Austin Rover. 9th:Michael Heseltine resi...
6th:The government scraps plans to sell Austin Rover to Ford. 12th:The Franco-British Channel Fixed Link Treaty is signed at Canterbury as the Channel Tunnel plans move forward. 15th:In the Wapping dispute, fifty-eight people are arrested by police at a demonstration. 17th:The UK signs the Single European Act.
4th:The national tabloid newspaper Today launches from Wapping. It pioneers the use of computer photo typesetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers are still using Linotype machines and letterpress. 5th:the High Court disqualifies and fines 81 Labour councillors for failing to set a rate. 13th:The Sun newspa...
1st:The Prince and Princess of Wales open the extension of London Underground’s Piccadilly line to Heathrow Terminal 4. Trains do not stop at the station until 12 April. 7th:Clive Sinclair sells rights to ZX Spectrum and other inventions to Amstrad. 15th:The government’s Shops Bill 1986, which would have liberalised Sunday shopping, is defeated in ...
5th:Liverpool win the Football League First Division title for a record 16th time after winning 1-0 at Chelsea. Kenny Dalglish, in his first season as the club’s player-manager, scores the goal which gives Liverpool the title. 8th:Labour makes large gains in local council elections, collecting 37% of the votes nationally compared to the Conservativ...
10th:Patrick Joseph Magee found guilty of the Brighton hotel bombing of 20 months ago and sentenced to life imprisonment. 12th:Derek Hatton, leader of Liverpool council, is expelled from the Labour Party for belonging to the entryist Militant group. Austin Rover is renamed the Rover Group four years after the name change from British Leyland. 23rd:...
1st:Gary Lineker becomes the most expensive British footballer ever in a £2.75 million move from Everton to FC Barcelona. 2nd:24 hours after Gary Lineker’s transfer, Ian Rush sets a new transfer record for a British footballer when he agrees a £3.2 million move from Liverpool to Juventus of Italy, but is loaned back to Liverpool for a season and wi...
8th:Rival gangs of Manchester United and West Ham United fans clash on a Sealink ferry bound for Amsterdam where the two clubs are playing pre-season friendlies. The UEFA ban on English clubs in European competitions is continuing for a second season, and there are now fears that English clubs may not even be able to play friendlies overseas. 13th:...
1st:GCSE examination courses replace both GCE ‘O’ Level and CSE courses for 14-year-olds. 6th:First episode of medical drama serial Casualty airs on BBC One. It will still be running on television more than thirty years later. 8th:Margaret Thatcher officially opens the first phase of the Nissan car factory at Sunderland, which has been in use for t...
7th:The first edition of The Independent national morning newspaper is published in London. 9th:“Babes in the Wood” murders: two girls, Nicola Fellows (aged nine) and Karen Hadaway (aged 10), are reported missing in Moulsecoomb, Brighton. 10th:“Babes in the Wood” murders: two bodies found in Wild Park, Brighton, are identified as those of the two g...
Seven dead in space shuttle disaster. 24 Jan. Leon Brittan quits over Westland. 03 Feb. Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick. 15 Feb. Printers and police clash in Wapping. 20 Feb. Soviets...
May 12, 2020 · This 1986 timeline takes you through all the important 1986 events, from changes in politics to Nobel Prizes and much more. With sanctions posed against South Africa due to Apartheid, and the Iran-Contra affair becoming public, there are so many 1986 events to remember.
Here are events from 1986 that have shaped Britain and its peoples and affected its history.
Events from 1986 in England. Incumbent. Events. 22 June – The England national football team 's hopes of winning the World Cup are ended with a 2–1 defeat in the quarter-finals by Argentina, a game in which Diego Maradona is allowed a blatantly handballed goal. [1] Births. 28 January – Jessica Ennis-Hill, heptathlete [2]
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Feb 16, 2024 · 1986 brought us all so much in terms of music and cinema, fashion, and design, but also in the political world. Some big changes occurred in 1986, and while many of you might not have been around to witness them at the time, these are big events we’re still feeling to this day.
