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The year 1986 in science and technology observed many events, some of which are included in the list below.
1 Astronomy and space exploration
- January 24 - Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
- January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes on launch, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- February 19 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
- March 8March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining. Events 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made b - JapaneseJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh spacecraft SuiseiSuisei (mythology) Suisei probe, a Japanese space probe to Comet Halley Yokosuka D4Y dive bomber. flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
2 Computer science
- April 3April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. Events 1559 The Treaty of the Peace of Cateau-Cambresis is signed. 1860 The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacra - IBM unveils the PC ConvertibleThe IBM PC Convertible released April 3, 1986, was IBM's first laptop computer and was also the first IBM computer to utilize the now-standard 3. 5" floppy disk. Like modern laptops, it featured power management and the ability to run from batteries., the first laptopA laptop computer (also known as notebook computer) is a small mobile personal computer, usually weighing around from 1 to 3 kilograms (2 to 7 pounds). Notebooks smaller than an A4 sheet of paper and weighing around 1 kg are sometimes called sub-notebooks computer.
3 Awards
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