1986

Events edit

January 6 - Samuel Doe is elected President of Liberia.
January 14 - Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores steps down as President of Guatemala after allowing democratic elections to be restored.
January 29 - Yoweri Kaguta Musevini is sworn in as President of Uganda. End of the Ugandan Bush War.
February 7 - Jean-Claude Duvalier is overthrown as President of Haiti by a popular uprising and subsequently goes into exile in France.
February 25 - Ferdinand Marcos is ousted as President of the Philippines by the EDSA People Power Revolution and exiled to Hawaii.
March 12 - Saddam Hussein launches the Al-Anfal campaign.
April 25 - Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland.
August 20 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.
September 7 - Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front; five of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed.
October 20 - Yitzhak Shamir is elected Prime Minister of Israel for the second time.
December 4 - Pozzetto massacre
December 18 - Nguyễn Văn Linh is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Unknown - The Civil Cooperation Bureau is established.
Unknown - The Irish People's Liberation Organization is founded by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army.