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In 1986, the world population was approximately 4,958,072,838 people[†]
1986Steven Burke, English road and track cyclist[†]
Steven James Burke is a former English track and road cyclist, who rode for the now disbanded Team Wiggins Le Col cycling team. He represented Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics, beating his pre Olympics personal best in the individual pursuit by eleven seconds, to take the bronze medal. He stood on the podium alongside his cycling idol, gold medallist Bradley Wiggins.
1986Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer[†]
Tom De Mul is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
1986Margo Harshman, American actress[†]
Margo Cathleen Harshman is an American actress. She is known playing Tawny Dean on Even Stevens, Alex Jensen on The Big Bang Theory, and Delilah Fielding-McGee on NCIS.
1986Mike Krieger, Brazilian-American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram[†]
Michel Krieger is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. During Krieger's tenure as CTO, Instagram's user base expanded from a few million to 1 billion monthly active users.
1986Park Min-young, South Korean actress[†]
Park Min-young, also known as Rachel Park, is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in the historical coming-of-age drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and has since starred in television series City Hunter (2011), Glory Jane (2011), Healer (2014–2015), Remember (2015–2016), What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018), Her Private Life (2019), Forecasting Love and Weather (2022), and Marry My Husband (2024).
1986Siim Roops, Estonian footballer[†]
Siim Roops is an Estonian footballer.
1986Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer[†]
Bohdan Romanovych Shust is a professional Ukrainian retired footballer.
1986Ding Ling, Chinese feminist and socialist realist author (born 1904)[†]
Ding Ling, formerly romanized as Ting Ling, was the pen name of Jiang Bingzhi, also known as Bin Zhi, one of the most celebrated Chinese women authors of the 20th century. She is known for her feminist and socialist realist literature.
1986Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist and academic (born 1917)[†]
Albert Lester Lehninger was an American chemist in the field of bioenergetics. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. In 1948, he discovered, with Eugene P. Kennedy, that mitochondria are the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes, which ushered in the modern study of energy transduction. He is the author of a number of classic texts, including: Biochemistry, The Mitochondrion, Bioenergetics and, most notably, his series Principles of Biochemistry. This last is a widely used text for introductory biochemistry courses at the college and university levels.
1986Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1943)[†]
Richard George Manuel was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
1986Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and author (born 1913)[†]
Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her best-known work is the novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), an extended prose poem inspired by her romance with the poet George Barker.
1986The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
International The new Manila Government moved in Federal District Court in Hawaii to recover millions of dollars in currency taken by Ferdinand E. Marcos and and his party when they left the country last week. Lawyers representing the United States pledged to provide the Philippines Central Bank with an accounting of the currency contained in 22 crates that were flown to Hawaii. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Corazon C. Aquino was hailed as the Philippines's de facto President by the leaders of the National Assembly majority that had pronounced her the electoral loser only two weeks ago. The legislators stressed their willingness to ''extend all kinds of cooperation'' to Mrs. Aquino. [ A12:3-5. ]
Not until the early 1960's did Yale University end an informal admissions policy that restricted Jewish enrollment to about 10 percent, according to a new book published by Yale University Press. The book, ''Joining the Club,'' which began as a sophomore term paper by Dan A. Oren, a 1979 Yale graduate, documents anti-Semitism reaching from fraternity brothers to board trustees. Much of the research is based on university documents. One document, a folder now in the university archives, labeled ''Jewish Problem,'' contains a memo from the admissions chairman of 1922 urging limits on ''the alien and unwashed element.'' The next year, the admissions committee enacted the ''Limitation of Numbers'' policy, an informal quota. Jewish enrollment was held to about 10 percent for four decades.
An obituary Jan. 29 of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, incorrectly described Federal scrutiny of his activity and that of his aides. The Internal Revenue Service is investigating their financial dealings, but there is no Federal grand jury investigation of allegations that Mr. Hubbard and his aides violated Federal tax laws and other statutes.
The police said today that they had ambushed and killed seven black nationalist guerrillas in a black township near Cape Town. The early-morning incident was described as one of the most serious gun battles of its kind in recent years. A police spokesman said the seven were ambushed after an informer told the police that insurgents from the African National Congress planned to attack the police station in the township, Guguletu. Grenade Injures Policeman There was no immediate confirmation that the slain blacks were from the African Nationalist Congress, the outlawed South African insurgent group. But there was speculation here that if the seven were indeed guerrillas, their presence in Guguletu could represent a new stage in efforts to bring the long-simmering insurgency into the nation's black residential areas.
''There were vicious, ugly forms of discrimination at Yale, as with the larger society.
Companies BankAmerica rejected the offer from Sanford I. Weill, former president of American Express, to raise $1 billion in new capital if he were named to run the bank. Directors named the bank's president, Samuel H. Armacost, to the new post of chairman and chief executive in what appeared to be a show of support. [ Page D1. ] General Motors will buy back $2 billion of its stock. The program is focused on 21.5 million of the special shares G.M. issued last year to buy Hughes Aircraft, 8.5 million of the shares issued to buy E.D.S. and 10 million shares of G.M. common. [ D1. ]
Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary General of the United Nations, was attached to a German Army command in World War II that fought brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and engaged in mass deportations of Greek Jews, according to official documents made available here. The documents also show that, as a young man, he was enrolled in two Nazi Party organizations. The documents, which were obtained by The New York Times, were found among German military records and in the archives of the Austrian Justice Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. Austria was part of Nazi Germany from the Anschluss, or union, of 1938, to the end of World War II. Autobiography Skips Period In authorized biographies and in a recent autobiography, Mr. Waldheim does not discuss his activities during the years involved, 1942 and 1943.
A nurse who until last year worked in the pediatrics unit at New York Hospital was arrested yesterday and charged with killing two of her three children, in 1980 and 1982, and trying to kill the third. District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau of Manhattan said a grand jury had indicted the woman, Ann Green, of 1303 York Avenue, accusing her of asphyxiating the two children, who were both less than five days old. Neither death was reported as suspicious at the time. Mrs. Green, who is 40 years old, pleaded not guilty to all the charges in an arraignment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Pending a bail hearing, Justice Robert M. Haft ordered her held in jail ''on a close watch,'' which in court parlance means a suicide watch.
Ward Smith took over as chief executive at White Consolidated Industries in January, and in recent interviews he has brimmed with ideas to improve the big appliance maker's manufacturing and marketing. But his ambitious plans may now be somewhat in limbo. In a move that surprised industry analysts, Electrolux A.B. of Sweden, one of the world's largest makers of home appliances, over the weekend offered $45 a share, or about $711 million, for White. White, which is based in Cleveland and is the nation's third-largest manufacturer of appliances, has not yet responded to the unsolicited bid.
On the chill afternoon of Jan. 9, Donald R. Manes returned to his office at Queens Borough Hall and asked about a car - not one of his regular chauffeur-driven town cars, but the nondescript blue LTD Ford that he occasionally drove himself. The Borough President's plans for the evening - a ''private car to a private meeting,'' as the Queens District Attorney put it - have become central to understanding Mr. Manes's possible role in a spreading municipal scandal that has embroiled a longtime friend and associate, Geoffrey G. Lindenauer. Shortly after midnight on Jan. 10 near Shea Stadium, the police halted the weaving blue Ford, now with a damaged right side, and found Mr. Manes incoherent and dripping blood from knife wounds to his left wrist and ankle. The police have dropped their investigation of what happened to Mr. Manes, saying they believe the wounds were self-inflicted. But District Attorney John J. Santucci of Queens says there is still reason to believe Mr. Manes may have been involved in a struggle in the car.
The United States Steel Corporation, apparently looking forward to a firmer market for sheet steel, announced price increases on all sheet products effective May 5. The announcement came as several steel indicators have been perking up. Imports have been dropping, the dollar has weakened and new orders have been surging. However, most analysts attributed the gains in orders to seasonal factors.
A GROWING number of American colleges and universities are seeking to attract black South African students to their campuses, according to officials who run programs aimed at placing such students. The institutions are encouraging attendance by blacks from South Africa as a way to assist that nation's black majority, educators say, even as pressure is mounting for American colleges and universities to divest themselves of their financial holdings in companies doing business in that nation. ''We were first asked to look at our stock portfolios,'' said William R. Cotter, president of Colby College in Waterville, Me., which has sponsored a handful of such students. ''Out of that experience came a realization that we had a role to play given the very restricted opportunities for black South Africans in that country.''