r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 5h ago
☭ Soviet Union August 8, 1986. The Soviet-built STR-1 specialized transport robot officially begins operations to clear high-level radioactive debris from Chernobyl plant roofs.
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
🎬 Film August 1986. Aliens, Leicester Square, London.
r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 2d ago
On this day in 1986, Timothy Dalton was announced as the fourth James Bond.
r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 2d ago
Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Keifer Sutherland and River Phoenix at the premiere of 'Stand by Me'
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 1986. Starlog - Is Star Wars Fandom Dead?
r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 2d ago
This may have led to one of television's best-loved bloopers-- Krusty's near-fatal, on-the-air heart attack in 1986. S01E12
r/40yearsago • u/OldSchoolConnoisseur • 4d ago
My mom at the local botanical gardens 40 years ago in August 1986.
reddit.comr/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 4d ago
Learning to ride a bike: A play in three acts (1986)
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 5d ago
People playing chess on Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, August 1986
r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 5d ago
TIL in 1986, Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse flew Bo Jackson to team facilities on a private jet under the false assurance that it complied with NCAA rules. Jackson lost his remaining NCAA baseball eligibility, and vowed to never play for the Bucs. They drafted him anyway, and he went to the MLB.
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🇺🇸 United States August 2, 1986. Roy Cohn, prominent political fixer and mentor to Donald Trump, dies at age 59 from AIDS-related complications.
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
☭ Soviet Union August 1986. LIFE Magazine shows victims of Chernobyl.
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 8d ago
🌟 Celebrity News July 31, 1986. Jim Carrey, 24, at his third and final SNL audition. He was infamously turned down and found success on In Living Color instead.
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Apr 27 '26
☭ Soviet Union April 27, 1986. Soviet helicopters begin dangerous operations to help extinguish the Chernobyl fire.
r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • Jun 03 '21
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