1986, we made it.
What should we do now?
'86 would feature some of
the most iconic '80s moments,
from some of the most tragic
to some of the most goofy.
That's weird.
What the hell is Goofy?
1986 would prove to be
nothing short of history's
triple Lindy.
Is that hard?
That's impossible.
Today, we're going to talk
about the news, culture, sports,
and entertainment, and all
that was weird in the '80s.
This is Timeline.
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Today, we're about to
get our fix on 1986.
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OK, we hope you look your best.
We've got a little tiny
zit here on the nose.
Just got to lance
it with this needle.
This is 1986.
[PHONE RINGING]
This is Jennifer.
1986 started out
bad for PC users.
On the 1st, 19-year-old
programmer, Basit Farooq Alvi
and his brother,
Amjad Farooq Alvi,
unleashed Brain, the
first computer virus
to attack MS DOS.
When the brothers
created the virus,
they were running a computer
store out of Pakistan
and noticed that their customers
were circulating illegal copies
of their software.
The brothers posted their
names, phone numbers,
and the shop's address
in the virus code.
So when someone used
the duplicated software,
the bootleggers
computer would freeze.
The virus spread so
fast, the UK and America
reported infected
computers within days.
While we're on the subject of
computers, January 16th in San
Diego, we would see the Internet
Engineering Task Force form.
It would develop and coordinate
the operation, management,
and evolution of the Internet.
Their mission was to make
the Internet work better
by producing high-quality,
relevant technical documents
that influence the
way people design,
use, and manage the Internet.
And yes, there was
an Internet in 1986.
The following day, on the
17th, President Reagan
signed a secret order
authorizing direct US arms
shipments to Iran through
the CIA and other government
connections.
The order instructed
the CIA not to tell
Congress about the operation.
In what would soon be called
the Iran-Contra Affair,
the secret US arms deal traded
missiles and other weapons
in order to free Americans
held hostage in Lebanon.
But it also used funds
from the arms deal
to support armed
conflict in Nicaragua.
We'll be hearing more
about that later this year.
Switching to space news,
this will get some comment.
Voyager II passed through its
closest approach to Uranus.
The Voyager II space probe swept
past Uranus on January 24th,
coming within 50,679 miles
of the seventh planet
of the solar system.
During its exploration
of the planet,
the Voyager II
discovered 10 moons,
studied its cold atmosphere,
and examined its ring system,
discovering two new rings.
Speaking of science,
on the same day,
L Ron Hubbard, failed
sci-fi novelist and founder
of the Church of
Scientology, died.
The body of L Ron Hubbard was
so sound and fully capable
of serving this mighty
thetan for many years.
Although there had been
rumors Hubbard had been dead
for years, he was really hiding
out on his ranch in California
to avoid subpoenas.
When his death was announced,
the Church of Scientology
issued a statement that declared
that Hubbard's body had become
an impediment to his work,
and that he had decided
to drop his body to continue
his research on another planet,
having learned how to
do it without a body.
Cool trick.
And moving on.
Two days later, on January
26th, the Chicago Bears
crushed the New England Patriots
to become Super Bowl champs.
These were the Super
Bowl shuffle glory years.
There's no one here
that does it like me.
My Super Bowl shuffle
will set you free.
The sweetness of Walter Payton,
the headbands of Jim McMahon,
the girth of William
"The Refrigerator" Perry,
all led by Ditka.
Mike Ditka, the walrus
mustachioed head coach,
inspired Robert Smigel,
Saturday Night Live writer,
to create a skit in 1991 called
Bill Swerski's super fans.
The Bears.
The Bears.
Now for some tragic news.
On January 28th,
anyone who is alive
will remember where they
were when the space shuttle
Challenger blew up, some 73
seconds into its mission.
A couple of the
solid rocket boosters
blew away from the side of
the shuttle in an explosion.
The explosion was caused
by O-ring seals which
weren't designed for the
unusually cold conditions
during the Challenger's
launch that morning.
Of the seven crew members
who lost their lives,
one of the most well-known
was Christa McAuliffe.
McAuliffe had been selected
from more than 11,000 applicants
to participate in NASA's new
Teacher in Space program.
Going into February,
although they technically
got started in 1979 as part
of the Lucas Film Computer
Division, then known
as The Graphics Group,
Pixar became its
own corporation,
with funding from
Apple co-founder Steve
Jobs, who became the company's
majority shareholder.
Meanwhile, in the
Philippines, on February 7th,
President Ferdinand Marcos was
caught in a sketchy voters poll
scandal in that year's
snap presidential election.
When the votes
were recounted, it
showed that Corazon Aquino won
with almost 70% of the votes.
Moving on to true
crime news, Barry Seal,
a commercial airline pilot,
who became a major smuggler
for the Medallin drug
cartel, was shot to death
on February 19th.
He was shot to death
outside a Salvation Army
halfway house in
Baton Rouge, where
he had been sentenced to
spend the night for six months
as part of his parole.
Seal gained
notoriety when he was
busted by the DEA for
trafficking guns and drugs
for the cartel.
Facing a long prison
sentence, Seal
turned informant by giving
the Feds intelligence
on his Medallin buddies,
and also testified
in several major drug trials.
I've reached exactly
the type of settlement
that I wanted to reach.
Whether they're happy or
not, you'll have to ask them.
When Seal was assassinated,
he had only been out on parole
for three weeks.
In 2017, Tom Cruise's
American Made
debuted, with
Cruise playing Seal.
That's for the damage.
Here's a little something
extra for your sister--
hey, little darling--
and your bike.
You never saw me.
You mean you haven't
played it yet?
We can play it on my Nintendo
entertainment system.
It's the Legend of Zelda
and it's really rad.
Those creatures from
Ghana are pretty bad.
[INAUDIBLE] takes, levers too.
But with your help,
our hero pulls through.
Ryan White was
readmitted back to school
after he tested
positive for AIDS
after an infected
blood transfusion.
The day White returned, 151
of the school's 360 students
stayed home.
At the same time, White
was working as a paper boy.
Many of the people on his route
canceled their subscriptions,
believing at the time
that AIDS could be
transmitted through newsprint.
In late February,
John Demjanjuk,
born Ivan Mykolaiovych
Demjanjuk,
was found in Ohio,
where he'd been
living since the early '50s,
and was extradited to Israel.
Known as Ivan the
Terrible, Demjanjuk
was accused of war
crimes and crimes
against humanity while
serving as a guard
at German concentration
camps during World War II.
Ivan the Terrible
would squeak out
of a death sentence in Israel.
But in 2002, his American
citizenship was revoked.
Going into mid-March, a notable
first as the American Medical
Association ruled
that euthanasia
is ethical on coma patients.
Before this, we had the case of
Barber versus Superior Court.
At question were two doctors
honoring a family's request
to withdraw both respirator,
and intravenous feeding,
and hydration tubes
from a comatose patient.
The doctors were
charged with murder,
despite the fact that they were
doing with the family wanted.
In 1986, reports
came in that Pakistan
crossed the threshold
of weapons-grade uranium
production.
And by March 1st, the country
had produced enough fissile
material for a nuclear weapon.
Pakistan continued advancing
its uranium enrichment program
over the years.
And according to
Pakistani sources,
the nation acquired the
ability to carry out
a nuclear explosion in 1987.
Hmm, think about that, as
Matlock does what he does best.
How long were you "you
knowing" in the parked car?
Well, from the bottom of the
third to the end of the game.
Six innings?
You're kidding?
Laputa, the floating island.
An island that
floats in the sky?
Yeah.
Most people think
it's just a legend,
but my dad actually saw it.
On April 8th, 1986,
Clint Eastwood
became the mayor of
the small seaside
city of Carmel, California.
Eastwood decided to run just
hours before the deadline
to enter the race,
after several run-ins
with Carmel officials
and its mayor.
Dirty Harry wanted Carmel
to develop business.
Incumbent Charlotte
Townsend and city officials
wanted to keep the
seaside town small.
How do you feel your
campaign is going so far?
Gosh, can't you ask
something original?
What am I supposed to say?
I think the whole thing has been
given an absolutely abnormal
tilt by the media presence.
We strive as much
as we can to live
our quiet, private normal life.
Despite his landslide victory
and overall good marks,
Eastwood didn't
seek re-election,
saying he wanted to devote
more attention to his children.
I can see the T-shirt now,
saying Clint for president.
Now, when I want to see a movie,
some action hard and fast,
I just go down to Carmel
and watch Clint kick some--
Three days later, aboard
the 60-foot sloop, American
Promise, Dodge Morgan
became the first American
to sail solo non-stop
around the world.
A feat in which he cut the
previous record time nearly
in half.
Morgan slipped into the
port of St George, Bermuda,
completing the 27,000-mile
circumnavigation in 150 days,
1 hour, and 6 minutes.
April 15th marked the
day the United States
began bombing Libya,
a mission which
was referred to as
Operation Eldorado Canyon.
The attack was carried out
by America's Navy, Air Force,
and Marine Corps, via
airstrikes in retaliation
for the West Berlin discotheque
bombing 10 days earlier.
A 2001 trial in the US found
that the nightclub bombing
had been planned by
the Libyan Intelligence
Service and the Libyan Embassy.
More bomb related news,
this time in London,
took place two days
later on April 17th, when
a bomb was discovered in
a bag at Heathrow Airport.
Later referred to as
the Hindawi Affair,
security found a three-pound
brick of plastic explosives
in the bag of Anne Marie Murphy,
a five-month pregnant Irish
woman, who was boarding a
flight to Tel Aviv with 375
other passengers.
Murphy claimed to be
unaware of the contents,
and that she had been given
the bag by her fiance, Nezar
Hindawi.
Hindawi, who confessed that
he was working with Syrian Air
Force Intelligence, was
later caught and sentenced
to 45 years in prison.
In late April, we go to Boston.
It's game two of the first-round
series against the Celtics.
Michael Jordan scored 63 points,
setting a post-season scoring
record.
Despite Jordan's
scoring barrage,
the Bulls lost the game in
double overtime, 135 to 131
Our Miller Lite most
valuable player of the game
is Michael Jordan, with an
all-time record 63 points.
Boston eventually swept
the three-game series
and went on to win
the NBA championship.
But it was an incredible,
incredible playoff performance.
That wasn't Michael Jordan.
That was God disguised
as Michael Jordan.
The following day,
on April 21st,
Geraldo Rivera
hosted the mystery
of Al Capone's vaults, a live
two-hour syndicated special.
But over here is the main event.
This is what you've come to
see, and this is why we're here.
This massive concrete
chamber, which some believe
was built for Al Capone.
For weeks, commercials
hyped that Rivera
would reveal either Al Capone's
great riches, dead bodies,
or both on live television.
Instead, when the vault
was finally opened,
the only thing found inside were
a few empty moonshine bottles.
And I promised all the
critics that if we didn't
find anything, I'd sing a song.
So Chicago, Chicago,
that [INAUDIBLE] town.
All right, I'm gone.
It was embarrassing for Geraldo.
Not as bad as two years later.
On November 3rd, 1988, when
on Geraldo's talk show,
a white supremacist broke
Geraldo's nose with a chair,
marking a point when Geraldo
Rivera became synonymous
with trash journalism.
Saturday, April 26th, at
the number four reactor
at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in Northern Ukraine,
the core overheated during a
safety test, resulting in one
of the worst nuclear
disasters in history.
Two Chernobyl plant workers
died due to the explosion
on the night of the
accident, and 28 more people
died within a few weeks as
a result of acute radiation
syndrome.
The city of Pripyat,
the home of Chernobyl,
is still uninhabitable and will
be for another 20,000 years.
The following afternoon,
on April 27th,
Captain Midnight
commandeered HBO's airwaves
during the broadcast
of the Falcon
and the Snowman in protest
of the network's increasingly
high $12.95 monthly fee.
The protest came in
the form of a message
on a color bar screen,
which stayed on-air
for four and a half minutes.
The FCC and the FBI
quickly caught up
with Captain Midnight,
aka, John R McDougal.
McDougal was hit with a $5,000
fine, one year unsupervised
probation, and a one-year
suspension of his amateur radio
license, and the
respect of a nation.
I feel the need.
The need for speed.
Staffers and executive
producers at Late Night
with David Letterman finally
booked Cher on May 22nd.
Cher had an outstanding
$28,000 Manhattan hotel bill
she needed to pay.
Now, do you live in New York
now, or you live in California?
I've been in a hotel for
actually the last couple
of months.
By sheer coincidence,
a Late Night executive
sent another invitation to
Cher while she was in New York.
And she responded by
saying she'd appear
on Dave's show for $28,000.
Uh-huh, and you want
us to cover this?
Yeah.
Did we agree to pay
for part of that?
Yes.
Cher seemed grateful
for the opportunity.
I thought that I would never
want to do the show with you.
Now, why?
Because you thought I was a--
An ass-
[LAUGHTER]
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When he laughs, I laugh.
Hands across America took
place on Sunday, May 25th.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
When he needs me, I'll be
right there by his side.
An attempt to link
approximately 5
to 6.5 million people
hand in hand, literally
across America for
15 minutes forming
a continuous human chain
across the country.
Regardless of the gaps in
the chain and execution,
hands was declared a success
by everyone involved and raised
about $15 million for charities.
Isms in my opinion are not good.
A person should not
believe in an ism.
He should believe in himself.
I quote John Lennon, "I
don't believe in Beatles,
I just believe in me."
On June 8th, Austria chose Kurt
Waldheim as their president.
Congratulations, Austria.
During his campaign,
however, Waldheim
failed to mention his
past as an intelligence
officer in Nazi Germany's
Wehrmacht during World War II.
Whoops.
Sorry.
Ultimately, Waldheim's
past was outed
by witnesses, photographs,
medals, and commendations
given to him, and by his own
signature on documents linked
to massacres and deportations.
After his term ended
in 1992, Waldheim
did not seek re-election.
But in 1994, Pope John
Paul II awarded Waldheim
a knighthood in the
order of Pius the 9th
and his wife, a Papal honor.
What's up with that, JPII?
Back to '86 and some
tragic sports news.
It started when Len
Bias was selected
as the second overall
pick in the 1986 NBA draft
by the Boston Celtics.
He had a great
career in Maryland.
Many people think he may be
the best athlete in the draft.
Bias was already anointed
to be the next great Celtic.
Expectations were set
so high, Red Auerbach
even said he knew he was
going to draft Bias when
he saw him play three years
earlier as a sophomore
at Maryland.
On June 19th at 8:55 AM Bias
would be pronounced dead
at Leland Memorial Hospital
in Riverdale, Maryland,
of cardiac arrhythmia
related to cocaine use.
Staying with sports,
let's move to soccer,
when on June 22nd the
world witnessed a-- mm--
miracle, when Argentine
footballer Diego Maradona
scored a goal in a quarterfinal
match between Argentina
and England during the
1986 FIFA World Cup.
After the match, Maradona
stated that the goal
was scored with the help
from the hand of God--
or the hand of Maradona
If you look closely.
In 2005, 19 years after
scoring the controversial goal,
Maradona confessed on
a televised program.
If I could apologize, go back
and change history, I would.
But the goal is still a goal.
Argentina were proclaimed
World Cup champions
and I was the best
player in the world.
I cannot change the story.
Four days later, in a landmark
US Supreme Court decision
on June 26th, it was ruled that
the insane cannot be executed
for their crimes.
In government news,
the Meese Report
was released on July 9th.
It is a pleasure today for me
to present to Attorney General
Meese the final report of the
Commission on Pornography.
The report was the result
of an investigation
into pornography ordered
by President Reagan.
While the main takeaway
from the report
was that porn led to
sex crimes, most people
were just shocked
by how explicit
some of the descriptions were.
Rutledge Hill Press
of Nashville sold
a book version of
the Meese Report
called Final Report of the
Attorney General's Commission
on Pornography.
The book was deemed so
filthy, most bookstores
refused to carry it.
Moving on to music, July
14th, Motley Crew's Vince Neil
began a 30-day jail sentence
for vehicular homicide.
In December of '84, Hanoi
Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle"
Dingly jumped into
Neil's De Tomaso Pantera.
And the two sped off to a local
Redondo Beach liquor store.
Neil lost control of the car
and hit an oncoming vehicle.
The two occupants
of the other car
were injured and
suffered brain damage.
Dingley was killed.
Neil was charged with vehicular
manslaughter and driving
under the influence of alcohol.
His blood alcohol
content was 0.17.
California's legal limit
at the time was 0.10.
Beside the 30 days, Neil was
forced to pay $2.6 million
in restitution and serve 200
hours of community service.
Motley Crew dedicated its
next album, "Theater of Pain,"
to Dingley.
I guess they didn't care about
those brain damaged people.
Get away from her, you bitch.
Thanks to an unhealthy weight,
dehydration, bad eating habits,
and a drug relapse on the
Grateful Dead's recent stadium
tour, Jerry Garcia collapsed
into a diabetic coma,
waking up five days
later on July 15th.
Garcia had to learn how to
walk and play the guitar again.
But by December 15th, the
Dead returned to the Oakland
Coliseum Marina,
where they headlined
a series of three gigs.
Garcia would hang on
until August 9th, 1995,
when he died eight days after
his 53rd birthday of a heart
attack in his room
at a rehabilitation
clinic near San Francisco.
His life was a--
far more a blessing
for all of us.
And I think we should--
perhaps if we're
going to dwell on
anything, dwell on that.
Thank you.
On August 18th, a
34-year-old John Tesh
made his debut appearance
on Entertainment Tonight
after spending years as a
local news anchor and reporter
in Nashville and Orlando.
John Tesh will be sitting
in this seat from now on.
And it sure is fun to
be working with you now.
Tesh co-hosted ET for
10 years with Mary Hart,
leaving to focus on
a career in music,
where he's released
over 60 albums,
even doing the theme
song for the NBA on NBC.
The success of Star Trek,
both the motion picture
and television show,
has blazed the trail
for this fall's new Star
Trek, The Next Generation.
Let's flash forward
to April 24th,
when Tesh played a holographic
Klingon in an episode of Star
Trek, The Next Generation.
The true test of
Klingon strength.
He received no onscreen credit
for his cameo appearance.
But who couldn't recognize
that sexy, sexy forehead?
September marked the debut
of McDonald's pitchman,
Mac Tonight.
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When the clock
strikes half past 6,
babe, time to head
for golden lights.
Originally intended only to air
in California for a few months,
the popularity of the
creepy moon-headed Mac
surpassed everyone's
expectations.
Not only did Mac's
campaign go national,
it was extended for four years,
until Bobby Darin's son, Dodd
Mitchell Darin, sued, claiming
McDonald's use of "Mack
the Knife" infringed upon
his father's trademark
without prior permission.
Most interesting, Mac was played
by character actor Doug Jones
and was his fourth acting gig.
Jones would go on to
play both Fauno and Pale
Man in Pan's Labyrinth, which
was released on June 19th,
2007.
A significant first-- in
his first major league
at bat, Bo Jackson
recorded an infield single
for the Kansas City
Royals on September 3rd.
The two-sport Jackson would
eventually make his NFL debut
with the Los Angeles Raiders
on November 1st, 1987,
against the New
England Patriots,
where he rushed for a total
of 37 yards on eight carries.
We'll see how much Bo
knows in the coming years.
Another first-- on September
8th, the Oprah Winfrey Show
was broadcast nationally
for the first time ever.
I'm Oprah Winfrey.
And welcome to the very first
national Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Oprah Winfrey show would
air nationally for 25 seasons,
giving us some pretty memorable
moments, such as skinny Oprah's
little red wagon of
fat, the Oprah Book
Club, Oprah's favorite
things episodes, where
she'd give her studio
audiences cars and houses.
And this.
We've never seen you
behave this way before.
I know.
Have you ever felt
this way before?
Some other notable NBC
hits debuted in September.
[THEME MUSIC - "LA LAW"]
[THEME MUSIC - "ALF"]
[INAUDIBLE] the gas if off.
I forgot to light the oven.
Well, I guess we'll
have to order in.
[LAUGHTER]
We go to Ohio, where
in late September
close to 1.5 million
balloons were launched
from Cleveland's public square.
Off they went.
It's completely covering
the Terminal Tower.
Bob, look at that.
But a storm turned a balloon
fest into a balloon nightmare.
Beyond the mess, the balloons
caused a local airport's runway
to shut down and
caused permanent damage
to one woman's prized
Arabian horses.
So many balloons
covered lake Erie
that the Coast Guard had to
call off a search and rescue
mission for two fishermen
who had been reported
missing earlier that day.
Into October, and on the
6th, a Soviet submarine
called the K219,
was involved in what
has become one of the most
infamous submarine incidents
during the Cold War.
Armed with 16 ballistic
missiles, each carrying two
warheads, the K219 sank about
600 miles east of Bermuda.
One of its nuclear
reactors had overheated.
And Soviet seaman
Sergei Preminin
manually shut it down,
but sealed his death
in the process.
It was later revealed that
highly radioactive plutonium
239 was released in the mishap.
After being criticized
by the media
for inciting violence
at their concerts,
most recently at a gig at
the Long Beach Sports Arena,
where 40 people were injured
during a pre-show gang fight,
Run DMC finally called
for a day of peace
among Los Angeles street
gangs on October 8th.
The next day, "The
Phantom of the Opera,"
opened at Her Majesty's Theater
in London on October 9th.
Starring Michael Crawford
in the title role,
with Sarah Brightman
as Christine.
Fun "Phantom" fact,
Crawford's mask
originally covered
his entire face
and remained in place
throughout his performance,
obscuring the actor's vision
and muffling his voice.
Soon afterwards,
"Phantom's" half mask
was designed to replace it, and
the musical's unmasking scene
was added.
On October 9th, The Late
Show with Joan Rivers
premiered on the
new Fox network.
It would mark the
first time a woman got
to host a late-night
TV talk show in the US.
Rivers took the gig because
she thought NBC would never
give her The Tonight Show,
where Rivers would guest host
when Johnny Carson
took the night off.
When Carson found out
Rivers jumped ship to Fox,
he blacklisted her.
And the two friends
never spoke again.
It was a little after
10:00 AM on October 23rd
when Keith Herring began
painting 100-yard long mural
along a portion of
the Berlin Wall.
This is probably the most
famous and most significant
wall, because it is
a wall that separates
and is protected by death or
the threat of death to cross it.
The commissioned project
was highly publicized
and equally risky for Herring.
West Berlin policemen shouted
at him through bullhorns,
taunting that he was in
their country without a visa.
Herring finished the
mural the same day.
But the peace didn't
last for very long.
The mural was soon
vandalized and painted over
by other artists.
It was destroyed by the time
the Berlin Wall came down
on November 9th, 1991.
We go now to the 10th thinning
of the sixth game of the World
Series between the New York
Mets and the Boston Red Sox,
where on October 25th, Bill
Buckner allowed a Mookie Wilson
ground ball to pass
through his legs.
Little roller up along first.
Behind the bend.
Buckner's error allowed the
Mets to score and win the game.
The Mets went on
to win the series.
Buckner was blamed
for the series loss.
That, and the curse of
the Bambino, of course.
Moving into November,
three long years
after their first
single "Cooky Puss"
was independently
released, the Beastie Boys
dropped "License to
Ill" on November 15th,
and the suburbs were
never the same again.
"License to Kill," right?
Ill, ill.
That's ill, Joan.
OK, sorry that this.
Their album is called
"License to Ill."
That's a stupid
name for an album.
[LAUGHTER]
The Beastie's debut LP
produced seven singles,
helping it go platinum
on February 2nd, 1987.
And eventually certified
diamond on March 4th, 2015.
That's 10 million albums sold.
We go to the ring.
And with the second round
TKO of Trevor Berbick,
Mike Tyson became the youngest
heavyweight champion ever,
winning the WBC belt
on November 22nd.
Tyson would go on to unify the
heavyweight championship belts,
winning the WBA belt with
a decision over James "Bone
Crusher" Smith, and the
IBF belt with a decision
win over Tony Tucker.
Being such an iconic '80s
figure, you get endorsements.
On September 18th, 1987,
Nintendo's Mike Tyson's Punch
Out debuted.
Where you could fight
such classic opponents
as King Hippo, Mr Sandman,
and Soda Popinsky.
Back to '86, the
Iran-Contra Affair
erupted on November 25th,
as President Ronald Reagan
and Attorney General
Edwin Meese revealed
that profits from secret
arms sales to Iran
had been diverted to
Nicaraguan rebels.
And finally, on December
17th, American hit man Richard
Kuklinski was brought
down in a sting set up
by the New Jersey Attorney
General's Office and the ATF.
Unnecessary.
These guys watch
too many movies.
Kuklinski was given the name
"The Ice Man" by authorities,
after they discovered
that he had frozen
the body of one of his
victims in an attempt
to disguise the time of death.
In 2003, HBO would
parakeets Kuklinski
with forensic
psychiatrist Dr Park
Dietz, who analyzed
some of Kuklinski's 150
to 200 committed murders.
1986 was now over.
87 was just around
the corner, where
we would see the fall of
famous religious figures,
the crude early days
of an animated classic,
and the greatest crime
fighter Detroit ever produced.
But that is for next year.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Coming soon, 1987.
So what do you think?
What was your fondest
memory of 1986?
Let us know in the
comments below.
And while you're
at it, check out
some of these "Only
about the 1980s"
videos from our weird history.
