This is a list of important events the occured during 1986. Exact dates are listed when known.

• January 28, the Challenger explodes.
• Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April.
• In Nyos, Cameroon, a cloud of carbon dioxide rumbled out of the nearby lake Nyos on August 21 and killed approximently 1,700 people.
• Bill Buckner lets World Series squirt through his legs. The Mets win in 7 games.
• US vs Lybia's Col. Khadafi
• Argentina wins Soccer World Cup in Mexico
• Fox Network starts in America
• June 19th, Len Bias, a first round pick by the Celtics, died of a cocaine overdose.
• Mandatory recycling programs started in Rhode Island.
• Iran Contra Scandal (Who can forget Ollie North?) is reported in November in a Lebanese magazine.
• Vice President George Bush's broccoli incident, tons of the stuff is delivered to the White House.
• Return of Haley's Comet
• Hands Across America, May 25, 1986
• Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th Anniversary and gets a face lift in the process.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.
• Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past is revealed as he runs for president of Austria, and he still wins despite having been a staff officer responsible for deporting thousands of Greek Jews to the concentration camps.
• "A.M. Chicago" changes its name to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and goes national September 8th.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white classics.
• Miami Hurricanes' Quarterback Vinny Testaverde wins the Heisman Trophy
• John McCarthy, a British journalist was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. Remained in captivity for a staggering 5.5 years.
• America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day for the first time.
• Not only did the Red Sox went to the World Series (They lost in 7 to the Mets) ,the Boston Celtics won the 1986 NBA Championship, and New England went to the the Super Bowl but lost to the Chicago Bears 46-10.
• Supermodel Gia, after years of heroin addiction, dies of AIDS. She is the first woman to sucumb to the AIDS virus in the US.
• Election of Corazon Aquino ends corrupt Marcos regime in the Philippines. "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election." - Imelda Marcos

This is a list of important events the occured during 1987. Exact dates are listed when known.

• "Baby Jessica," Jessica McClure falls down the well and is later rescued. Wednesday October 14th, 1987 --9:30am cst through Friday October 16th, 1987--8:30pm cst
• Battle for "Baby M" begins. William and Eilizabeth Stern of New Jersey hired Mary Beth Whitehead to carry a baby to term for them. After it was all over, surrogate contracts were declared illegal and the Sterns won the right to bring "Baby M" up and allow Mrs. Whitehead visitation rights.
• Herald of Free Enterprise sinks in North Sea; 189 die
• German lands airplane on Red Square, Moscow
• Thatcher re-elected (again)
• The INF agreement between the US and the USSR
• Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.
• Artists protest the ongoing Sistine Chapel restoration.
• Condom commericals begin to appear on TV for the first time.
• US budget reaches the trillion dollar mark.
• Robert Bork was denied a Supreme Court appointment after opposition to his involvement in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was raised.
• Jessica Hahn is implicated in the Jimmy Bakker scandal
• Gary Hart scandal with model Donna Rice destroys his career.
• Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore, November 21
• Klaus Barbie is convicted of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life in prision. On a similar note, Rudolf Hess strangled himself at age 93 after having been in prision since 1941. He was the sole prisioner at the facility.
• Porn star Cicciolina wins a seat in the Italian parliment
• The last California Condor was taken in to captivity. There were only 27 in captivity at that point. By 1992 57 were in captivity and were beginning to be re-released into the wild.
• The marriage of Charles and Diana starts to deteriorate, they begin living alone.
• World Population reaches 5 billion
• The largest stock-market drop in Wall Street history occurred on "Black Monday" -- October 19, 1987 -- when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508.32 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. That fall far surpassed the one-day loss of 12.9% that began the great stock market crash of 1929 and foreshadowed the Great Depression
• The year that Lane Frost won the PRCA World Championship in Bull Riding.
• Les Miserables is awarded 8 Tony awards, including Best Musical.

This is a list of important events the occured during 1988. Exact dates are listed when known.

• CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever.
• Soviets leave Afghanistan
• Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes.
• Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash.
• Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are suspected of planting the bomb
• Earthquake in the USSR
• Bobby McFerrin tells everyone "Don't worry, be happy"
• Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent.
• US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV
• The first plutonium pacemaker is made.
• World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel.
• Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.
• Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson
• Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic nation
• Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election
• Dukakis loses to the "Read My Lips" guy, he's never heard from again.
• McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989)
• Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th.
• Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.
• Human Genome project begins.
• Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan.
• Australia celebrates it's bicentenary
• Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash.
• Fires in Yellowstone National Park. The rains didn't come when expected but months later.