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Jan 28, 1986 - Space shuttle Challenger exploded into a gigantic fireball 75 seconds after liftoff today, killing its crew of seven. |
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April 15, 1986 - The United States launched an air raid with F-111 warplanes against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed. April 26, 1986 - In Pripyat in the Ukraine, north of Kiev, at 1:23 a.m. the Chernobyl atomic power plant exploded. A 300-hundred-square-mile area was evacuated and 31 people died as unknown thousands were exposed to radioactive material that spread in the atmosphere throughout the world. An exploded at Chernobyl, Ukraine, and burned for 10 days. About 70% of the fallout fell in Belarus. Damage was estimated to be up to $130 billion. By 1998 10,000 Russian "liquidators" involved in the cleanup had died and thousands more became invalids. It was later estimated that the released radioactivity was 200 times the combined bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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July 3, 1986 - President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. July 8, 1986 - Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes. He was barred from entering the US in 1987 due to his services as an officer in a German army unit implicated in war crimes in the Balkans. July 21, 1986 - Col Goldman leaves and Col Jorg Stachel assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY |
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Dec 30, 1986 - Don Wertz, teacher at Custer Baker Middle School, Franklin, who co-directed project to write history of CAMP ATTERBURY, is honored with Arvin Foundation's 1986 Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.
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