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serial	15813
year	1986
month	4
day	20
event	US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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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"

1986-4-20

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site