Editing 1986 (section)

===November===
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* [[November 1]]
** Queensland, Australia: [[Joh Bjelke-Petersen]] wins his final election as [[Premier of Queensland]] with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the [[Fitzgerald Inquiry]].
** [[Sandoz chemical spill]]: A major environmental disaster near [[Basel, Switzerland]] pollutes the Rhine, when an [[agrochemical]] storehouse catches on fire.
* [[November 3]]
** [[Iran–Contra affair]]: The [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] magazine ''[[Ash-Shiraa]]'' reports that the United States has been selling weapons to [[Iran]] in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
** The [[Northern Mariana Islands]] enter in a political union with the United States. The island's government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978. The covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred [[United States citizenship]] on legally qualified island residents.
* [[November 6]]
** 45 people are killed in the [[1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash]].
** [[Alex Ferguson]] is appointed as the new manager of [[Manchester United]].
* [[November 18]] – [[Greater Manchester Police]] announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the [[Moors murders|Moors murderers]] [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] confess to 2 more murders.
* [[November 21]] – [[Iran–Contra affair|Iran-Contra Affair]]: National Security Council member [[Oliver North]] and his secretary, [[Fawn Hall]], start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to [[Iran]] and channeling the proceeds to help fund the [[Contras|Contra]] rebels in [[Nicaragua]].