Time flies by and so did this post. 40 years this month, we reach a few more key highlights that occurred in April of 1986. Do you remember these or recall where you might have been during these key moments in time?
(Photo Courtesy: AFP via http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1653848.stm)
April 5: A disco bombing in West Berlin, Germany, claims the lives of a U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman
April 8: The duke himself, Clint Eastwood, makes his day by becoming the mayor of Carmel, CA
April 11: Not 80 days but 150 days is how long Dodge Morgan sailed solo around the world, non-stop. Also on this very day, at a nail biting distance of 39 million miles, Halley's Comet flies by Earth at it's closest distance
April 12: The closing of the Hasselt Belgium mines irks its miners, enabling the 20,000 workers to protest
April 14: 200 people perish aboard a double-decker ferry in Bangladesh as it sinks from tempest weather. In addition, five suspected terrorist sites in Libya were attacked by U.S. aircraft (not one of them was Airwolf :) ).
April 20: A new NBA playoff record is set at 63 points by Michael Jordan in a single game
April 21: Al Capone's vault is opened by Geraldo Rivera on television and is found devoid of content
April 26: A devastating nuclear disaster ensues as the fourth nuclear reactor explodes at the Chernobyl power plant. The disaster claims 31 people with the contamination from this event reaching into Europe. Subsequently, the Soviet government orders the city of Pripyat to evacuate the following day.
April 29: The Los Angeles Central Library in California is consumed with fire, burning 800,000 books
April 30: Covering a distance of 12 miles, Ashrita Furman completes a dizzying 8,341 somersaults
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