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  • Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    Aug, 1986
    Cinnabon

    Opening Cinnabon's First Franchise-Operated Store

    Seattle, Washington, U.S.
    Aug, 1986

    Komen and Lindstrom wanted to create the perfect cinnamon roll, eventually hiring Jerilyn Brusseau to finalize the recipe since Brusseau was famous for her baking in the Seattle area. The first bakery began by serving only its cinnamon rolls with a sign touting "World Famous Cinnamon Rolls". Cinnabon's first franchise-operated store opened in August 1986 just outside of Seattle.




  • Knebworth Park, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Aug 9, 1986
    Freddie Mercury

    Mercury's final live performance with Queen

    Knebworth Park, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Aug 9, 1986

    Mercury's final live performance with Queen took place on 9 August 1986 at Knebworth Park in England and drew an attendance estimated as high as 160,000.




  • Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S.
    Wednesday Aug 20, 1986
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Edmond Post Office Shooting

    Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S.
    Wednesday Aug 20, 1986

    The Edmond post office shooting occurred in Edmond, Oklahoma, on August 20, 1986. During a deadly rampage that lasted less than fifteen minutes, postal worker Patrick Sherrill pursued and shot twenty co-workers, killing fourteen of them, before committing suicide. Sherrill's attack inspired the American phrase "going postal".




  • Cameroon
    Thursday Aug 21, 1986
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Lake Nyos Disaster

    Cameroon
    Thursday Aug 21, 1986

    On August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.




  • Vienna, Austria
    Friday Aug 29, 1986
    Chernobyl disaster

    The reports on Chernobyl; INSAG-1

    Vienna, Austria
    Friday Aug 29, 1986

    This explanation effectively placed the blame on the power plant operators. The UKAEA INSAG-1 report followed shortly afterward in September 1986, and on the whole also supported this view, based also on the information provided in discussions with the Soviet experts at the Vienna review meeting.




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