Timeline Tuesday 15 April 1986

Events on Tuesday 15 April 1986 2

• 1910 – 1986 Jean Genet (1910-1986) Died 15 April 1986, aged 75 French novelist, playwright and political activist whose works, including The Thief's Journal, drew on his own experience of poverty, crime and imprisonment. He became a major figure of postwar French literature and an outspoken supporter of marginalized and revolutionary causes. He died in Paris.
• 1986 United States bombing of Libya Air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi US warplanes struck targets in Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for a Libyan-linked bombing of a Berlin nightclub that killed American servicemen. The raid killed dozens including, reportedly, an adopted daughter of leader Muammar Gaddafi. Several European allies refused overflight rights, straining NATO relations.