We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the
best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 4, 1986
Birthdays:
Expo 86 held in Vancouver B.C. Expo 67
in Montreal and this years may have been the only two world's fairs held
in Canada (thanks Pat)
Expo '86 in Vancouver, British-Columbia
Specialized Exposition hosted by Canada
Theme
Transportation and Communications : World in
Motion - World in Touch
Participants
52 countries
Attendance
22, 111, 600
Legacy
Regeneration of the central core of Vancouver
Science Centre
Trade and Convention Centre, formerly the Canada Pavilion
SkyTrain (regional rapid transit)
Canada
Pavilion
Theme
A Canada in Motion - A Canada in Touch
Visitors
Over 5 million
28 January,
STS 51-L Challenger exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral,
killing all seven astronauts.
On July 28th NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger,
pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!"
as spacecraft disintegrated
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August 1st Hollywood California- Canadian actor Matt
Frewer stars in Max Headroom TV Talk Show, making its debut on
Cinemax and a Canadian bit of trivia,
September 2 Los Angeles,
California - CanadianCathy Eveyln Smith sentenced to three
years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose that killed comedian John
Belushi in March 1982.
Reactor at Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine is ablaze, raising
fears of world's worst civil nuclear disaster. The fallout reaches Britain and is
present fro years.
Microsoft goes public with an IPO and Bill Gates' wealth is now
history.
North Bay, Ontario - Elzire Dionne dies; mother of the Dionne
quintuplets, the first quints on record to survive.
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would
live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always
in other places, lost, like sheep. Janet Frame
(b. 1924), New Zealand novelist, poet. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart,
"The Day of the Sheep" (1983).
