Peninsula. March 14 – Microsoft Corporation holds its initial public offering of stock shares. March 15 – Hotel New World collapses, 33 killed and 17 rescued from rubble. March 25 – The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture. March 26 – An article in The New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II. March 27 – Russell Street Bombing: A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, killing a woman constable, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty. March 31 – Mexicana Flight 940 crashes near Maravatío, Mexico, killing 167. April April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, Côte d'Ivoire. April 1 – Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion. April 2 – A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people. April 5 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque La Belle, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing three and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible. April 11 – The infamous FBI shootout in Miami results in the death of two FBI agents and the wounding of five others. April 13 – Pope John Paul II officially visits the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue. April 13 – The first child born to a non-related surrogate mother is born. April 14 – Hailstones weighing fall on Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, killing 92. April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region. April 16 – The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands sign a peace treaty, thus ending the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, one of the longest wars in human history. April 17 Lebanon hostage crisis: British journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (he is released in August 1991) and three others are killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya. The Hindawi affair begins when an Irishwoman is found carrying