1986

1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade. The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.


 * January 13 – 24 – South Yemen Civil War.


 * January 19 – The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.


 * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.


 * January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch


 * February 9 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century (the first was in 1910).


 * The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station


 * April 26 – Chernobyl disaster : A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property".  Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".


 * Giants Causeway about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills . It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986,


 * Cordelia, Uranus Moon discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 20, 1986


 * Saran Queen Annoteph, the IX orders a commando-style attack against the Pan Saran Emperor who will be at the Remus Therme s (Pan Saran Planet)


 * The Ambush fails, but seven thousand Pan Sarans die.


 * The Pan Saran fury ignites a hot phase of the Saran/ Pan Saran war.


 * A Quadiped colony is raided by Dai and the Quadi declare war on the Dai


 * The Galactic Council meets at the Planet of Galactic Peace . The Saran queen makes a rare appearance and openly apologizes.


 * The Kermac incorporate the Roxomani.


 * Togar execute a Saran spy. The previous excellent relations between the Togar and the Sarans are strained.