Timeline Friday 24 January 1986

Events on Friday 24 January 1986 4

• 1911 – 1986 L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) Died 24 January 1986, aged 74 American author who founded the Church of Scientology in 1954 after publishing the book Dianetics. He spent his final years in seclusion in California, continuing to direct the organization from hiding. His movement remains controversial and influential decades after his death.
• 1921 – 1986 Gordon MacRae (1921-1986) American baritone and actor, Curly in Oklahoma! and Billy Bigelow in Carousel.
• 1986 Gordon MacRae dies in Lincoln Gordon MacRae dies aged 64.
• 1986 Voyager 2 flies by Uranus First close-up spacecraft encounter with the planet NASA's Voyager 2 probe made its closest approach to Uranus, returning the first detailed images of the planet, its rings and moons. The flyby discovered ten previously unknown moons and revealed Uranus's unusually tilted magnetic field. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited the planet.