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"Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km"
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1986
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4/1 - Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy
4/1 - US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
4/1 - World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
4/2 - 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
4/2 - George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
4/2 - NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
4/3 - Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
4/3 - "US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000"
4/5 - US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
4/5 - Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
4/6 - 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
4/6 - Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
4/7 - "Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy"
4/8 - "Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day"
4/9 - Dallas announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
4/10 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
4/10 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
4/10 - Big Deal opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
4/11 - "A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000"
4/11 - Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
4/11 - "Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km"
4/11 - KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
4/13 - Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
4/13 - Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
4/13 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
4/13 - Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
4/13 - "50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279"
4/14 - "21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire"
4/14 - Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
4/14 - Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
4/14 - US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
4/15 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
4/15 - Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
4/15 - "US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing"
4/16 - "To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV"
4/16 - West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
4/17 - Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
4/17 - "Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for ""Lonesome Dove"""
4/18 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
4/18 - "Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA"
4/19 - Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
4/20 - Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
4/20 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
4/20 - Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
4/20 - Jerry's Girls closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
4/21 - 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55
4/21 - 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51
4/21 - "Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)"
4/21 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
4/22 - Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
4/23 - Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
4/23 - Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
4/25 - ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
4/25 - "Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II."
4/26 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
4/26 - France performs nuclear test
4/26 - Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
4/26 - "Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die"
4/27 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
4/27 - Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
4/27 - Sweet Charity opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
4/28 - "Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster"
4/29 - "800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library"
4/29 - Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
4/30 - "Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles"
4/30 - "Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games"