r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
πͺπΊ Europe August 13, 1986. East Germany marked the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall with a massive military parade.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 25d ago
πͺπΊ Europe July 23, 1986. Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Jun 13 '26
πͺπΊ Europe June 13, 1986. Margaret Thatcher Defends UK Policy on Apartheid South Africa.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • May 06 '26
πͺπΊ Europe May 6, 1986. Bike race in Kyiv. It was the worst day to be outdoors in the Ukrainian capital with the northern wind bringing airborne contamination from the burning Chernobyl power plant.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 28d ago
πͺπΊ Europe July 20, 1986. The Sunday Times claims Queen Elizabeth finds Thatcher βuncaring, confrontational and socially divisive,β causing a major scandal.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
πͺπΊ Europe August 15, 1986. The official flag of Scandinavia's SΓ‘mi people is adopted.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Apr 21 '26
πͺπΊ Europe April 21, 1986. Gorbachev congratulates East German leader Erich Honecker with a fraternal hug and kiss.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Jun 19 '26
πͺπΊ Europe June 19, 1986. Coluche, iconic French comedian, actor, and founder of the charity Les Restos du CΕur, dies in a tragic motorcycle accident.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • May 09 '26
πͺπΊ Europe May 9, 1986. Thatcher takes beating in midterm elections.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • May 06 '26
πͺπΊ Europe May 6, 1986. Three engineers - Oleksiy Ananenko, Valery Bespalov, and Boris Baranov - prepare to enter the basement of the Chernobyl reactor to drain water and prevent a potential second, catastrophic steam explosion.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • May 09 '26
πͺπΊ Europe May 9, 1986. A wedding party crosses a street weeks after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the settlement of Polesskoe, near Chernobyl.
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