Historical Events in 1984

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• Jan 1 AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies
• Jan 1 Brunei becomes independent of UK
• Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents

• Jan 2 13th Fiesta Bowl: #14 Ohio State beats #15 Pittsburgh, 28-23
• Jan 2 16 year old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
• Jan 2 50th Orange Bowl: #5 Miami (FL) beats #1 Nebraska, 31-30
• Jan 2 50th Sugar Bowl: #3 Auburn beats #8 Michigan, 9-7
• Jan 2 70th Rose Bowl: UCLA beats #4 Illinois, 45-9

• Jan 2 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
• Jan 2 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor
• Jan 3 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
• Jan 4 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson, created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, premieres on NBC TV; runs for 9 seasons
• Jan 4 Adrian Dantley ties Wilt Chamberlain's NBA record for most free throws made in a game by converting 28 of 29 free throws in Utah's 116-111 win over Houston at Las Vegas
• Jan 4 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game

• Jan 6 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41 B mission
• Jan 6 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
• Jan 7 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• Jan 8 AFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Raiders beat Seattle Seahawks, 30-14
• Jan 8 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
• Jan 8 NFC Championship, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.: Washington Redskins beat San Francisco 49ers, 24-21
• Jan 8 Washington Capitals Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
• Jan 9 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
• Jan 9 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
• Jan 9 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh

• Jan 10 Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
• Jan 10 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
• Jan 10 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" in commercial for Wendy's hamburger chain

• Jan 10 US re-establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after almost 117 years
• Jan 11 Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
• Jan 11 NASA space shuttle STS 41-B moves to launch pad
• Jan 11 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
• Jan 13 TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV

• Jan 14 Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini scores a 3rd-round TKO of Bobby Chacon to retain his WBA lightweight title in Reno, Nevada; Chacon so severely battered he thanks referee Richard Steele for stopping the fight

• Jan 15 Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
• Jan 15 Tony Benn, described as a “leftwing rebel” wins Labour's nomination for the by-election in Chesterfield, UK

• Jan 17 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
• Jan 18 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
• Jan 19 California Supreme Court rejects the request of quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia's to starve herself to death in a public hospital
• Jan 19 Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
• Jan 20 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

• Jan 22 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
• Jan 22 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates

• Jan 22 Super Bowl XVIII, Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL: LA Raiders beat Washington Redskins, 38-9; MVP: Marcus Allen, Los Angeles, RB
• Jan 23 Buffalo Sabres become the first team in NHL history to win 10 straight road games with a 5-3 victory at Boston
• Jan 23 Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km

• Jan 26 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
• Jan 26 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, New Jersey
• Jan 27 Geffen Records releases "Milk & Honey" album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, featuring un-released recordings made during the 1980 "Double Fantasy" sessions, including "Grow Old With Me"
• Jan 27 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial

• Jan 28 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled in Fuerth, West Germany

• Jan 29 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 45-3; MVP: Joe Theismann, Washington Redskins, QB

• Jan 31 36th NHL All-Star Game, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 7-6; MVP: Don Maloney, NY Rangers, LW
• Jan 31 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
• Jan 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 1 American lawyer and businessman David Stern becomes NBA Commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien; stays in position until 2014

• Feb 1 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
• Feb 1 Indian diplomat Ravindra Mhatre kidnapped and murdered by Kashmiri terrorists in Birmingham, England
• Feb 2 1st Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
• Feb 2 Lebanese army fights in Beirut
• Feb 3 10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 launches
• Feb 4 "9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
• Feb 4 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
• Feb 4 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
• Feb 5 NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
• Feb 6 Muslim militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
• Feb 7 American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
• Feb 7 David (born without immunity system) touches his mother for 1st time at age 12
• Feb 7 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
• Feb 8 1st time 8 people in space
• Feb 8 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
• Feb 8 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
• Feb 8 XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• Feb 9 East German ski jumper Jens Weißflog wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals in the Normal Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games
• Feb 9 East German speed skater Karin Enke wins the 1,500m in world record 2:03.42 at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 1,000m gold
• Feb 9 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 10k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; first of 3 individual medal sweep, also winning 5k and 20k events

• Feb 11 10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 returns to Earth
• Feb 11 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
• Feb 12 12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972), Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the men's luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics

• Feb 12 East German luger Steffi Martin wins the first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins in Calgary (1988)
• Feb 12 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 5k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; 2nd of 3 individual medal sweep, also winning 10k and 20k events
• Feb 12 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup after going undefeated in the qualifying rounds
• Feb 13 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
• Feb 13 Karin Enke of East Germany wins her 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Games, winning the women's 1,000m in Olympic record 1:21.61; also wins 1,500m gold

• Feb 13 Swedish cross country skier Gunde Svan wins 15k event, the first of 2 gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 4 x 10k relay gold

• Feb 14 Canadian speed skater Gaétan Boucher takes out the 1,000m gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 1,500m; narrowly beats Soviet skater Sergey Khlebnikov in both events
• Feb 15 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
• Feb 15 An East German sweep of the medals in the women's 3,000m speed skating at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; Andrea Schöne takes gold ahead of teammates Karin Enke and Gabi Zange
• Feb 16 3-time men's figure skating world champion Scott Hamilton of the US wins the gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics from Brian Orser of Canada and Jozef Sabovčík of Czechoslovakia
• Feb 16 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win an Olympic downhill skiing gold at the Sarajevo Games; beats Swiss Peter Müller by 0.27s
• Feb 16 Canadian speed skater Gaétan Boucher takes out the 1,500m at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, his second gold medal of the Games; also wins the 1,000m
• Feb 16 NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
• Feb 16 Swedish cross country skier Gunde Svan takes his 2nd gold medal of the Sarajevo Winter Olympics in the 4 x 10k relay; also wins 15k gold
• Feb 16 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 2nd career gold medal in 4 x 10k relay at Sarajevo Winter Olympics; 2nd of 4 career gold; 15k Lake Placid (1980), 50k Sarajevo, relay Calgary (1988)
• Feb 17 34th Berlin International Film Festival: "Love Streams" wins the Golden Bear
• Feb 17 Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish 2nd & 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games
• Feb 18 East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
• Feb 18 Finnish cross-country skier Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen wins the 20k gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; sweeps all 3 individual events, also winning 5k and 10k events

• Feb 18 Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
• Feb 19 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater, NYC, after 104 performances
• Feb 19 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
• Feb 19 26th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins for 2nd consecutive year and 4th time in career; last-lap pass to beat Darrell Waltrip
• Feb 19 Soviet Union wins its 6th Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-0 win over silver medallists Czechoslovakia at the Sarajevo Winter Games
• Feb 19 Swedish cross country skier Thomas Wassberg wins 50k event at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; his second gold of the Games (4 x 10k relay) and 3rd of his career (15k Lake Placid 1980)
• Feb 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Feb 19 XIV Winter Olympic Games close in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
• Feb 24 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
• Feb 25 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
• Feb 26 Last US marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
• Feb 26 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren is named the 1st US poet laureate
• Feb 26 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC "Hymietown"

• Feb 27 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
• Feb 27 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
• Feb 28 26th Grammy Awards: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys
• Feb 28 British satirical puppet show "Spitting Image" premieres on ITV

• Feb 29 Swedish center Patrik Sundström scores a goal and adds 6 assists as Vancouver Canucks beat the Penguins 9-5 in Pittsburgh; just the 3rd player in NHL history to record 6 assists in a road game
• Mar 1 Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
• Mar 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi
• Mar 2 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
• Mar 3 NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)

• Mar 5 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
• Mar 5 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
• Mar 6 Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
• Mar 7 The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
• Mar 9 -5°F ties lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio (first set in 1948)
• Mar 9 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
• Mar 9 John Lennon single "Borrowed Time" released posthumously
• Mar 9 Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
• Mar 9 The Competitive Enterprise Institute is founded in Washington, D.C.
• Mar 9 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
• Mar 10 25th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
• Mar 10 5th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 82-71 (OT)
• Mar 10 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
• Mar 11 31st ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats Duke, 74-62
• Mar 12 British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action
• Mar 13 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
• Mar 13 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
• Mar 14 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating of STS 41-C mission

• Mar 15 Tanzania adopts constitution
• Mar 16 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
• Mar 16 South Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
• Mar 17 Scotland beats France, 21-12 at Murrayfield to win the Five Nations Rugby Championship outright and Triple Crown for first time since 1938; Grand Slam first time since 1925

• Mar 19 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
• Mar 19 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
• Mar 19 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
• Mar 19 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad

• Mar 20 Andy Kaufman and Fred Blassie's film "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
• Mar 20 Nigerian Major-General Babatunde Idiagbon launches a campaign on ‘National Consciousness and Enlightenment’
• Mar 20 US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools

• Mar 21 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
• Mar 21 Part of Central Park in New York City is named "Strawberry Fields" honoring John Lennon
• Mar 21 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan

• Mar 22 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
• Mar 23 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
• Mar 23 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
• Mar 23 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
• Mar 23 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• Mar 23 World Ice Dancing Championship won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain) in Ottawa, Canada
• Mar 24 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
• Mar 24 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
• Mar 24 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
• Mar 24 Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh, premieres at the Staatstheater, in Stuttgart, Germany
• Mar 27 Beginning of "tanker war": over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines

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