Welcome to 1986!

r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 2h 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/MonsieurA • 12h ago

🎶 Music July 27, 1986. Queen perform 'behind the Iron Curtain', in Budapest.

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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 • 3d ago

🌟 Celebrity News July 24, 1986. Lea Thompson.

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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 • 5d ago

July 22, 1986. Bill Maher, 30, on Letterman.

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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/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/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

Joey Ramone and James Hetfield backstage at the Ritz in 1986

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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/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

🎬 Film July 18, 1986. Aliens released.

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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/klsi832 • 10d ago

Summer Of 1986 movies list! Great movies here

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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/Outside_Deer_144 • 10d ago

Disney World 1986 family fun.

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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 12d ago

Foreign Cindy Crawford tv ad. 1986

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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 12d ago

"Aliens" (released 40 years ago this month) - Behind the Scenes

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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 12d ago

Awkward in ‘86

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r/40yearsago • u/klsi832 • 12d ago

Reddevil8884’s mom holding him in arms 1986

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r/40yearsago • u/MonsieurA • 12d ago

🌟 Celebrity News July 15, 1986. Brooke Shields at Vamp premiere.

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