From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 9, 1986:

• Workers were moving portable stands into Memorial Stadium in preparation for Kansas University’s upcoming football opener with North Carolina. The game was to be regionally televised and officials were predicting a crowd ranging from 35,000 to 40,000.
• James Doohan, famous for portraying Scotty in the original “Star Trek” TV series and subsequent movies, was stopping in for a Lawrence visit. The actor, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the show’s first broadcast, was to be meeting fans and signing autographs at the KU Bookstore in the Kansas Union.
• Temperatures dropped to a record low of 44 degrees overnight, breaking the old record of 48 for Sept. 8, set in 1934. Highs in Lawrence on a recent weekend reached only in the mid to upper 60s.