October 1984 in History

Events in History

Oct 5 13th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41G): Challenger 6 launches with Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, on board

Oct 9 Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
Oct 11 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)

Oct 11 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC

Oct 11 US Vice Presidential candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George H. W. Bush (R), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oct 12 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die

Oct 16 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 17 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
Oct 18 Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51A mission
Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 20 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed
Oct 20 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
Oct 23 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
Oct 24 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
Oct 24 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
Oct 25 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
Oct 25 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
Oct 25 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 25 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
Oct 26 Stephanie Fae Beauclair ("Baby Fae") gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
Oct 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 30 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award

Oct 31 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi

Oct 31 Puerto Rican tanker 'San Francisco' explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire

Oct 31 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi who was assassinated

Oct 9 Marie Kondo, Japanese organizational guru (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up), born in Tokyo, Japan
Oct 17 Randall Munroe, American webcomic author

Oct 6 George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist, dies at 82
Oct 8 Frederick Brisson, Danish-born film and theater producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
Oct 12 Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
Oct 13 Alice Neel, American painter dies ages 84
Oct 14 Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (Astronomer Royal 1972-82, Nobel Prize for Physics 1974), dies at 66 [1]
Oct 18 Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82
Oct 19 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), dies at 85
Oct 19 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
Oct 20 Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American bio-chemist (Nobel 1947-discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy), dies at 87