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24 Feb, 1987

Wins Grammy

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2+2 Plus wins the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group for Free Fall.

Wins Grammy

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Baker wins the Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for Rapture, and Best Rhythm & Blues Song for Sweet Love.

Oct 1986

Honorary degree

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University of Massachusetts awards Robert Mugabe an honorary law degree. for his “exemplary devotion to social justice. University president:

[Mugabe’s] gentle firmness in the face of anger and intellectual approach to matters which inflame the emotions of others, are hallmarks of quiet integrity.

24 Mar, 1986

Wins Oscar

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Hurt wins the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of homosexual prisoner Luis Molina who becomes unlikely friends with his cellmate (Raul Julia) in Héctor Babenco’s adaptation of Manuel Puig’s novel Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Hurt:

I share this with Raul. Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom [miming his heart beating quickly with his hands], you know… It’s incredible. I didn’t expect to be here so I don’t know what I’m gonna say. I want to thank the courageous people in Brazil with whom I made this film. Saudade, Brazil. I am very proud to be an actor. Thank you very much.

William Hurt Wins Best Actor: 1986 Oscars

Wins Grammy

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Yo-Yo Ma wins the Grammy for Best Classical Performance—Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra) for Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85/Walton: Concerto For Cello & Orch.