That Was 1986:

Here are some of the things that were happening during our final year of high school.

Sports
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Calgary (4-1)

Super Bowl
Chicago d. New England (46-10)

World Series
NY Mets d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)

NBA Championship
Boston d. Houston (4-2)

Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. H. Mandlikova (7-6 6-3)
Men: Boris Becker d. I. Lendl (6-4 6-3 7-5)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Ferdinand

World Cup
Argentina d. W. Germany (3-2)

 
Entertainment

Events

  • Barry Diller, head of News Corp., creates Fox, the fourth television network. Fox offers 10 hours of prime-time programming a week.
    (the demon seed of Reality TV - who knew what the future had in store)
     
  • The Television Bureau of Advertising announces that the average American household watches television for more than seven hours a day.

  • The Oprah Winfrey Show hits national television.

  • The Academic American Encyclopedia is available on CD-ROM. It is the first reference work published in this medium.

  • Nintendo video games introduced in U.S.

Movies

  • Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money, The Mission

Music

1986 Grammy Awards

Record of the Year “Higher Love,” Steve Winwood
Album of the Year Graceland, Paul Simon (Warner Bros.)
Song of the Year “That's What Friends Are For,” Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, songwriters
Best New Artist Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male “Higher Love,” Steve Winwood
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female The Broadway Album, Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal “That's What Friends Are For,” Dionne Warwick and Friends Featuring Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder
Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “Top Gun Anthem,” Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male “Addicted to Love,” Robert Palmer
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female “Back Where You Started,” Tina Turner
Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal “Missionary Man,” Eurythmics
Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “Peter Gunn,” Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy
Best Country Song “Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days),” Jamie O'Hara, songwriter
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Lost in the Fifties Tonight, Ronnie Milsap
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female “Whoever's in New England,” Reba McEntire
Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal “Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days),” Judds
Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) “Raisin' the Dickens,” Ricky Skaggs
 

1986 Greatest Hits - Remember listing to these at the dance?


1. Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
2. Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Word Up - Cameo
5. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
6. Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
7. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money
8. Sara - Starship
9. Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger
10. No One Is to Blame - Howard Jones
11. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
12. Kyrie - Mr. Mister

 

1986 Most Popular TV shows:

1. The Cosby Show (NBC)
2. Family Ties (NBC)
3. Cheers (NBC)
4. Murder She Wrote (NBC)
5. The Golden Girls (NBC)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS)
7. Night Court (NBC)
8. Growing Pains (ABC)
9. Moonlighting (ABC)
10. Who's the Boss? ( ABC)

 
World Events
  • Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
     
  • President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US (Jan. 8). US planes attack Libyan "terrorist centers" (April 14).
     
  • Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
     
  • President Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines after ruling for 20 years; newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
     
  • Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
     
  • Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26 et seq.).
     
  • Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
     
  • World Court rules US broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).
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