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1986
 
   
Desmond Tutu is the first black African to be archbishop of Cape Town      
1986
 
    
Argentina wins the World Cup quarter final against England with help from Maradona and 'the hand of God'       
1986
 
    
20-year-old US boxer Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick to become the youngest ever world heavyweight champion       
1986
 
 
Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star in Jean De Florette, adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol    
1986
 
   
Mad Cow Disease (BSE, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ) is identified and described in Britain      
1986
 
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Details of the Iran-Contra affair spark a Washington scandal and the criminal prosecution of Oliver North       
1986
 
    
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Black Mask is premiered in Salzburg       
1986
 
    
Harold Macmillan dies and is buried in the churchyard of St Giles in Horsted Keynes       
1986
 
     
The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill becomes the first rap (or hip hop) album to top the US chart        
1986
 
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Pope's Villa becomes St James Independent School for Boys. See in Google maps