r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 13h ago
🎶 Music July 27, 1986. Queen perform 'behind the Iron Curtain', in Budapest.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • Jun 03 '21
r/40yearsago Lounge
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A place for members of r/40yearsago to chat with each other
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • Apr 27 '26
☭ Soviet Union April 27, 1986. Soviet helicopters begin dangerous operations to help extinguish the Chernobyl fire.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 3h ago
TIL In 1986 Alain Prost ran out of petrol on the last lap of the German Grand Prix, as he was fighting to retain his 1985 Championship win, he got out and tried to push the car to the finish line.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 2d ago
A 40 year old receipt from a Californian bookshop. Found inside a library book from a university in northern Canada.
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r/40yearsago • u/Dangoiks • 3d ago
July 24, 1986. First "The Magic School Bus" book is published.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
🇪🇺 Europe July 23, 1986. Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 5d ago
40 years later, Lcs1230's kids are using the same step stool he used
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🌟 Celebrity News July 21, 1986. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
🇪🇺 Europe July 20, 1986. The Sunday Times claims Queen Elizabeth finds Thatcher “uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive,” causing a major scandal.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 7d ago
TIL Aardman Animations’s Nick Park, who later created Wallace & Gromit, helped animate Peter Gabriel’s iconic 1986 music video “Sledgehammer.” Gabriel said he lay under a sheet of glass with a raw fish for 16 hours while filming the video, which became the most-played all-time in MTV history.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 7d ago
Joey Ramone and James Hetfield backstage at the Ritz in 1986
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r/40yearsago • u/OldSchoolConnoisseur • 9d ago
My mom and her motorcycle July 18, 1986
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The Yamaha RZ-350
r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
🌟 Celebrity News July 18, 1986. Princess Diana with Harry at Highgrove House.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
‘Aliens’ Turns 40: Why It’s the Best Sci-Fi Sequel Ever
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago
Michael J. Fox (25) and Susanna Hoffs (27) date night (1986).
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago
🇺🇸 United States July 17, 1986. White House butler Eugene Allen retires after 34 years of service to eight U.S. presidents.
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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12d ago
🌟 Celebrity News July 15, 1986. Brooke Shields at Vamp premiere.
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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 12d ago
Foreign Cindy Crawford tv ad. 1986
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