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1984

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This article is about the year 1984. For George Orwell's novel, see Nineteen Eighty-Four. For other uses, see 1984 (disambiguation).
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1950s  1960s  1970s  - 1980s -  1990s  2000s  2010s

Years: 1981 1982 1983 - 1984 - 1985 1986 1987
1984 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Home video - Literature
Music (Country , Metal) - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation
Meteorology - Rail transport - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India
Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders - Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works
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1984 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1984
MCMLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita 2737
Armenian calendar 1433
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԳ
Bahá'í calendar 140 – 141
Buddhist calendar 2528
Chinese calendar 4620/4680-11-29
(癸亥年十一月廿九日)
— to —
4621/4681-11-10
(甲子年十一月初十日)
Ethiopian calendar 1976 – 1977
Hebrew calendar 5744 – 5745
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2039 – 2040
 - Shaka Samvat 1906 – 1907
 - Kali Yuga 5085 – 5086
Holocene calendar 11984
Iranian calendar 1362 – 1363
Islamic calendar 1404 – 1405
Japanese calendar Shōwa 59

(昭和59年)

 - Imperial Year Kōki 2644
(皇紀2644年)
 - Jōmon Era 11984
Julian calendar 2029
Korean calendar 4317
Thai solar calendar 2527
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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

  • 1 Events
    • 1.1 January
    • 1.2 February
    • 1.3 March
    • 1.4 April
    • 1.5 May
    • 1.6 June
    • 1.7 July
    • 1.8 August
    • 1.9 September
    • 1.10 October
    • 1.11 November
    • 1.12 December
    • 1.13 Unknown dates
  • 2 Births
    • 2.1 January
    • 2.2 February
    • 2.3 March
    • 2.4 April
    • 2.5 May
    • 2.6 June
    • 2.7 July
    • 2.8 August
    • 2.9 September
    • 2.10 October
    • 2.11 November
    • 2.12 December
  • 3 Deaths
    • 3.1 January
    • 3.2 February
    • 3.3 March
    • 3.4 April
    • 3.5 May
    • 3.6 June
    • 3.7 July
    • 3.8 August
    • 3.9 September
    • 3.10 October
    • 3.11 November
    • 3.12 December
  • 4 Nobel prizes
  • 5 Ship events
  • 6 1984 in fiction
    • 6.1 Film
    • 6.2 Literature
    • 6.3 Television
    • 6.4 Computer and video games

Events

January

January
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  • January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
  • January 1 - Bell System divestiture breaks AT&T into 24 independent units.
  • January 3 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
  • January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
  • January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time.
  • January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
  • January 23 - The Peace and Friendship Treaty is signed between Argentina and Chile in Vatican City.
  • January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
  • January 27 - Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi television commercial.

February

February
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29
  • February 1 - Medicare comes into effect in Australia.
  • February 2 - The Melbourne newspaper The Age publishes phone tapes incriminating an unknown judge.
  • February 3 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.
  • February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
  • February 8 - The 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo.
  • February 9 - Disclosure of remarks by Jesse Jackson, considered anti-Semitic by some, hurt his presidential campaign.
  • February 11 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center
  • February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • February 26 - United States Marines pull out of Beirut, Lebanon.
  • February 29 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March

March
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
  • March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the U.N. condemns their use on March 30.
  • March 5 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Harimandir Sahib, the Sikh holy spot.
  • March 6 - A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985).
  • March 14 - Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and 3 others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.
  • March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
  • March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren (the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded).
  • March 23 - General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.
  • March 27 - Starlight Express opens at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.

April

April
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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  • April 2 - Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
  • April 4 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
  • April 12 - Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed). Two other hijackers are captured and then killed in secret service interrogations, causing a major scandal and secret service upheaval.
  • April 13 - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
  • April 17 - WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
  • April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
  • April 25 - The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
  • April 26 - Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

May

May
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21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
  • May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
  • May 5 - The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley.
  • May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
  • May 8 - Denis Lortie kills 3 government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
  • May 8 - The longest game in Major League Baseball history begins at 7:30 PM between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game will be played over the course of 2 days, lasting 25 innings, with a total time of 8 hours and 6 minutes.
  • May 11 - Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure burns down, killing 8.
  • May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
  • May 12 - The Louisiana World's Fair opens.
  • May 14 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.

June

June
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
  • June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
  • June 6 - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 300 people.
  • June 8 - A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
  • June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
  • June 22 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
  • June 22 - Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
  • June 27 - France beats Spain 2-0 to win the Euro 84.
  • June 30 - John Napier Turner becomes Canada's 17th Prime Minister.

July

July
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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  • July 4 - Richard Petty wins his 200th career NASCAR victory at the Firecracker 400 in Daytona, Florida.
  • July 9 - Lightning sets fire to York Minster.
  • July 12 - In San Francisco, the Democratic National Convention nominates Walter F. Mondale for U.S. President, and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President.
  • July 14 - New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon calls a snap election and is heavily defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
  • July 18 - The first Culver's opens in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
  • July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.
  • July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in what is apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
  • July 23 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in "Penthouse" magazine.
  • July 25 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
  • July 28-August 12 - The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

August

August
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
  • August 1 - Australian banks are dere