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The car celebrates its centenary. BMW holds
a major retrospective exhibition on the car in art.
BMW celebrates its most successful year
in the market in the United States of America (96,800 registrations) and
year one at the new Regensburg works.
Together with 13 other European
manufacturers, BMW starts "Prometheus" projects for improved traffic flow
during the 1990s.
The first federal
holiday in the United States honoring
Martin Luther King Jr.
In the
Ukraine, one of the reactors at the
Chernobyl
nuclear plant explodes creating the worlds worst
nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the the incident and many
thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of
radioactive material.
Crew of
Space Shuttle Challenger:
Francis R. Scobee,
Michael J. Smith,
Judith Resnik,
Ellison Onizuka,
Ronald McNair,
Greg Jarvis,
Christa McAuliffe die when the
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes.
1986 in film:
Platoon,
Children of a Lesser God,
Hannah and Her Sisters,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off and
Top Gun starring
Tom Cruise
The first inductees into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame includes
Chuck Berry,
James Brown,
Ray Charles,
Fats Domino,
Everly Brothers,
Buddy Holly,
Jerry Lee Lewis and
Elvis Presley. |
