August 1986

Wednesday 06:

A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.

Saturday 09:

1987 - Five people shot dead + Eleven injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire @ random in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, VIC

Wednesday 20:

In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.

Thursday 21:

Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people.

Tuesday 26:

Toxic gas kills 1700 in Cameroon.

Thursday 28:

US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.

Sunday 31:

The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.