Year in a Minute: 1986

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1986.

The official NASA photo of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger mission 51L. All seven members of the crew were killed when the shuttle exploded during launch on Jan. 28, 1986. (AP Photo/HO) Credit: AP

Bananarama took us to Venus.

I’m your Venus, I’m your fire

The Soviets, the MIR space station.

As Space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all 7 astronauts.

As Ferdinand Marcos is forced from office in the Philippines,

We learn his wife Imelda, has amassed 3000 pairs.

We chanted en masse…

You’re the voice try and understand it...

John Farnham

But couldn’t understand the brutal murder of nurse Anita Cobby.

Crocodile Dundee becomes highest grossing Aussie film of all time.

And an obscure Ukrainian town, explodes into collective memory.

The worst nuclear disaster of all time, Chernobyl.