HistoryWorld Timeline
Search for events relating to: Year:
 
For exact match use "quotation marks" 		     
 		Go 
 
Google by default Text search   Google by default Related images   Narrative or article HistoryWorld   Place or object Link   See in Google maps Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms.
     
1986
 
    
20-year-old US boxer Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick to become the youngest ever world heavyweight champion       
1986
 
 
Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star in Jean De Florette, adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol    
1986
 
   
Mad Cow Disease (BSE, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ) is identified and described in Britain      
1986
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
Details of the Iran-Contra affair spark a Washington scandal and the criminal prosecution of Oliver North       
1986
 
    
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Black Mask is premiered in Salzburg       
1986
 
     
The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill becomes the first rap (or hip hop) album to top the US chart        
1987
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld      
Mugabe and Nkomo merge their two parties as ZANU-PF, making Zimbabwe effectively a one-party state        
1987
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld     
The Zimbabwean constitution is changed to make Mugabe executive president (with Nkomo vice-president, until his death in 1999)       
1987
 
     
English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall        
1987
 
    
18-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf deposes Martina Navratilova as world no. 1