1986

Events

• January 6 - Samuel Doe is elected President of Liberia.
• January 29 - Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda. End of the Ugandan Bush War.
• 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.
• Unknown - The Civil Cooperation Bureau is established.

Births

Villain births

• February 8 - Charles "Andy" Williams
• February 11 - Abu Omar al-Shishani
• March 12 - Rebecca Olenchock
• March 19 - Casey Anthony
• May 12 - Nathan Damigo
• May 14 - Richard Huckle
• May 20 - Matti Saari
• May 25 - Andrew Golden
• July 13 - Tashfeen Malik
• October 21 - Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• October 31 - Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley
• November 16 - Omar Mateen
• November 26 - Antonella Barba
• December 10 - Daniel Holtzclaw
• December 22 - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
• Unknown - Brian Blackwell

Victim births

• April 3 - Bryan Zuckor
• November 26 - Sophie Lancaster
• December 7 - Megan Kanka

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 19 - Barry Seal
• July 10 - Lê Duẩn
• August 20 - Patrick Sherrill
• September 14 - John Bingham
• November 8 - Vyacheslav Molotov
• December 4 - Huang Zhiheng

Victim deaths

• February 24 - Sheri Rasmussen