The Year - 1986
The Family News..:

Richard Canty, husband of Bonnie, died on March ?.
Robert G. Farenga married Sandy Zerko on Aug, 9 in Chicago.
Rose (Farenga), wife of Sam Siciliano, died on Oct. 18th in Chicago.

The #1 Songs Were .....
Addicted to LoveRobert Palmer
AmandaBoston
Glory of LovePeter Cetera
The Greatest Love of AllWhitney Houston
Higher LoveSteve Winwood
Holding Back the YearsSimply Red
How Will I KnowWhitney Houston
Invisible TouchGenesis
KissPrince & The Revolution
Live to TellMadonna
The Next Time I FallPeter Cetera with Amy Grant
On My OwnPatti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
Papa Don't PreachMadonna
Rock Me AmadeusFalco
SaraStarship
SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
Stuck with YouHuey Lewis & The News
Take My Breath AwayBerlin
That's What Friends Are ForDionne Warwick & Friends
These DreamsHeart


AT THE MOVIES....
Best Actor - Paul Newman , TheColor of Money.
Other Nominees - Dexter Gordon, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, James Woods.

Best Actress - Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God.
Other Nominees -- Sigourney Weaver,Sissy Spacek. Jane Fonda, Kathleen Turner.

Supporting Actor - Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters.
Other Nominees - Dennis Hopper, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Denholm Elliott.

Supporting Actress - Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters.
Other Nominees - Piper Laurie, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Tess Harper, Maggie Smith.

Best Director - Oliver Stone, Platoon.
Other Nominees- David Lynch, Woody Allen, Roland Joff�, James Ivory.

Adapted Screenplay - Ruth Prawer,Room with a View.
Original Screenplay - Woody Allen,Hannah and Her Sisters.
Best Sound - Platoon, John Wilkinson (I); Richard D. Rogers; Charles Grenzbach (I); Simon Kaye.
Sound Effects - Aliens, Mark A. Mangini.
Visual Effects - Aliens, Robert Skotak; Stan Winston; John Richardson (II); Suzanne M. Benson
Best Song - "Take My Breath Away", Top Gun - Giorgio Moroder (music); Tom Whitlock (lyrics)
Original Score - Herbie Hancock, 'Round Midnight.

In The News..:
Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
President freezes Libyan assets in U.S. (Jan. 8).
Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection (Jan. 14).
Voyager 2 spacecraft reports secrets of Uranus (Jan. 26).
Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard (Jan. 28).
Haiti President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France (Feb. 7).
President Marcos flees Philippines after ruling 20 years, as newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him (Feb. 26).
Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden shot dead (Feb. 28).
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim's service as Nazi army officer revealed (March 3).
Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India (March 22).
Halley's comet yields information on return visit (April 10).
U.S. planes attack Libyan �terrorist centers� (April 14).
Desmond Tutu elected Archbishop in South Africa (April 14).
Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world (April 26).
Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel (June 4).
Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights (June 11).
World Court rules U.S. broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters (June 27).
Supreme Court voids automatic provisions of budget-balancing law (July 7).
Jerry A. Whitworth, ex-Navy radioman, convicted as spy (July 24); he is also part of Walker family spy ring.
Muslim captors release Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco (July 26).
Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice of U.S. (Aug. 14).
House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting Administration's �star wars� policy (Aug. 15).
Three Lutheran church groups in U.S. set to merge (Aug. 29).
Congress overrides Reagan veto of stiff sanctions against South Africa (Sept. 29 and Oct. 2).
Congress approves immigration bill barring hiring of illegal aliens, with amnesty provision (Oct. 17).
Reagan signs $11.7-billion budget reduction measure (Oct. 21).
He approves sweeping revision of U.S. tax code (Oct. 22).
Democrats triumph in elections, gaining eight seats to win Senate majority (Nov. 4).
Secret initiative to send arms to Iran revealed (Nov. 6 et seq.); Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales (Nov. 19); diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras revealed (Nov. 25).

Last updated on Friday, May 05, 2000