Editing 1986 (section)

===February===
* [[February 3]] – [[Pixar]] is founded by [[John Lasseter]] along with [[Steve Jobs]].
* [[February 7]]
** President [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]] ("Baby Doc") flees [[Haiti]], ending 28 years of family rule.<ref>{{cite book |author=David P. Forsythe |title=Encyclopedia of Human Rights |publisher=OUP USA |year=2009 |page=353 |isbn=9780195334029}}</ref>
** The [[1986 Philippine presidential election|snap presidential election in the Philippines]] earlier announced by President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] is held amidst controversy, that paves the way for a chain of protests, culminating in the [[People Power Revolution]].
* [[February 8]] – [[Hinton train collision]]: A [[Canadian National]] train heading westbound collides with a [[Via Rail]] train in [[Hinton, Alberta]]; 23 people are killed and 71 injured in the accident.
* [[February 9]] – [[Halley's Comet]] reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the [[Solar System]] in the 20th century (the first was in [[1910]]).
* [[February 10]] – The Maxi Trial ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Maxiprocesso'') begins in the [[bunker]] room of the Ucciardone prison ([[Palermo]]). It will be the largest trial against the [[Sicilian Mafia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maxiprocesso di Palermo – WikiMafia–- Libera Enciclopedia sulle Mafie |url=https://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Maxiprocesso_di_Palermo |access-date=2020-12-29 |website=wikimafia.it}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – Human rights activist [[Natan Sharansky]] is released by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] authorities and leaves the country for [[Israel]].
* [[February 15]] – The [[Beechcraft Starship]] makes its [[maiden flight]].
* [[February 16]]
** The Soviet liner {{MS|Mikhail Lermontov}} sinks in the [[Marlborough Sounds]], New Zealand.
** [[Ouadi Doum air raid]]: The [[French Air Force]] raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern [[Chad]].
** [[Mário Soares]] wins the second round of the [[1986 Portuguese presidential election|Portuguese presidential election]].
* [[February 17]] – The [[Single European Act]] is signed.
* [[February 19]]
** The [[Soviet Union]] launches the ''[[Mir]]'' [[space station]].
** The [[United States Senate]] approves a treaty outlawing [[genocide]].
* [[February 22]] – The [[People Power Revolution]] begins in the [[Philippines]] to remove President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] from office.
* [[February 25]]
** The [[27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] opens in Moscow. The General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: [[Glasnost]] and [[Perestroika]].
** [[People Power Revolution]]: President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] of the [[Philippines]] is ousted from power and goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of dictatorial rule; [[Corazon Aquino]] becomes the first Filipino woman president and forms an interim government with [[Salvador Laurel]] becoming her [[Vice President of the Philippines|Vice-president]] and [[Prime Minister of the Philippines|Prime Minister]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/42633078 |title=The "Yellow Revolution": Its Mixed Historical Legacy |author=Friend, Theodore |year=1988 |journal=Philippine Studies |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=166–182 |jstor=42633078}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chanrobles.com/cralaw/1988aprildecisions.php?id=330 |title=G.R. No. L-82380 April 29, 1988 – Ayer Productions Pty. Ltd., et al. v. Ignacio M. Capulong, et al. : April 1988 – Philippine Supreme Court Decisions |website=www.chanrobles.com}}</ref>
** A three-day riot begins in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] when around 25,000 conscripts of the [[Central Security Forces]] (CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels, several nightclubs, restaurants and cars were looted and burned in the tourist districts near the Pyramids over several days.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-02-27-8601150421-story.html |title=Cairo Calm After Riot Leaves 25 Dead |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 27, 1986}}</ref> The riot became known as the [[1986 Egyptian conscripts riot|Egyptian Conscripts Riot]]. At least 25 people died during the first day in Cairo, and an estimated 8,000 people, mostly conscripts in regions outside the city, were killed in total.
* [[February 27]] – The [[United States Senate]] allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
* [[February 28]] – [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Swedish Prime Minister]] [[Olof Palme]] is [[Assassination of Olof Palme|shot to death]] on his way home from the cinema in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Henley |first=Jon |last2= |first2= |date=2020-06-10 |title=Swedish prosecutors close Olof Palme murder inquiry after 34 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/10/olof-palme-murder-swedish-prosecutors-reveal-conclusions |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>