Timeline Wednesday 1 January 1986

Events on Wednesday 1 January 1986 9

• 1986 1986: Alain Prost McLaren Prost won his second consecutive title after Nigel Mansell suffered a dramatic tyre blowout at the final race in Adelaide while leading the championship.
• 1986 Accession to the EEC Joining Europe Portugal officially joined the European Economic Community (now the European Union).
• 1986 Dollywood Opens Opened Dollywood, a theme park in the Great Smoky Mountains near her childhood home in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The park would grow into a major economic engine for the region and eventually attract over three million visitors per year.
• 1986 I, Tina and Break Every Rule Published her autobiography I, Tina, which detailed the abuse she suffered during her marriage to Ike Turner. Released the album Break Every Rule and embarked on a record-breaking world tour.
• 1986 Inverted Region Confirmed The 'inverted region' predicted by Marcus theory 30 years earlier was finally confirmed experimentally by John R. Miller and colleagues, vindicating one of the most daring predictions in theoretical chemistry.
• 1986 – 1991 Living in Europe Left Japan for Italy and Greece, running marathons and writing in solitude. Completed Dance Dance Dance and South of the Border, West of the Sun abroad. He began running seriously during this period, eventually completing over 30 marathons and an ultramarathon.
• 1986 Return to Germany Returned to Germany for the first time, a pivotal journey in reconciling her conflicted feelings about her homeland. She described herself as 'a writer, a woman, a lover, a swimmer, a parent, a German-born American.'
• 1986 That's What Friends Are For Won a Grammy for Song of the Year for That's What Friends Are For, performed by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder as an AIDS charity single.
• 1986 The Singing Detective Starred as Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a BBC television serial widely regarded as one of the greatest TV dramas ever made.