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| 1985 |
| | | 22-year-old Gary Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov and becomes the youngest-ever world champion in chess | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Ireland's Garret FitzGerald sign an Anglo-Irish Agreement to tackle shared problems | |
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| 1985 |
| | | British Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah publishes his second collection as The Dread Affair | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The US Space shuttle Challenger explodes with seven on board less than two minutes after lift-off | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The guerrilla leader Yoweri Museveni takes Kampala and becomes president of Uganda | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Baby Doc Duvalier escapes from Haiti in a US airforce jet and goes into exile in France | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Corazón Aquino, widow of the assassinated Benigno Aquino, stands against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines presidential election | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The Soviets launch the first module (the living quarters) of their Mir Space Station | |
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| 1986 |
| | | After attempting to rig the presidential election to defeat Corazón Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos flees from the Philippines to exile in Hawaii | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is killed in a Stockholm street in an unsolved murder | |
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