1984 in History (Part 3)

Events in History

Events 201 - 300 of 382

• Jul 14 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Jul 17 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Prime Minister of France
• Jul 17 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
• Jul 17 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds

• Jul 18 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
• Jul 19 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

• Jul 21 Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
• Jul 21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 25 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
• Jul 30 Alvenus tanker at Cameron Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
• Jul 30 Holly Roffey aged 11 days is the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant
• Jul 31 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
• Aug 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site


• Aug 3 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• Aug 3 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
• Aug 4 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso (National Day)
• Aug 6 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
• Aug 7 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC
• Aug 8 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
• Aug 9 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad

• Aug 11 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
• Aug 11 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• Aug 13 Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
• Aug 14 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
• Aug 14 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
• Aug 15 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
• Aug 16 Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened
• Aug 16 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
• Aug 16 NASA launches Ampte
• Aug 18 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
• Aug 19 Republican convention in Dallas, Texas nominates incumbent Ronald Reagan for President
• Aug 22 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec


• Aug 22 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
• Aug 22 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush
• Aug 22 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
• Aug 25 French airship capsizes
• Aug 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 26 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
• Aug 27 US President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project
• Aug 27 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 27 War Against Indiscipline is launched by the Buhari regime in Nigeria
• Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 30 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
• Aug 30 Sotheby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
• Sep 3 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
• Sep 3 South Africa adopts constitution
• Sep 5 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
• Sep 6 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
• Sep 6 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
• Sep 8 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
• Sep 10 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
• Sep 10 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
• Sep 12 Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on The Tonight Show
• Sep 12 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
• Sep 13 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad

• Sep 15 Morocco Showcase opens
• Sep 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 15 9th Toronto International Film Festival: "Places in the Heart" directed by Robert Benton wins the People's Choice Award

• Sep 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 18 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
• Sep 18 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
• Sep 19 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
• Sep 20 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
• Sep 21 NASA launches Galaxy-C
• Sep 25 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
• Sep 26 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
• Sep 26 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
• Sep 26 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
• Sep 26 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
• Sep 28 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
• Sep 29 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
• Sep 30 Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6
• Oct 1 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
• Oct 2 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
• Oct 2 Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage
• Oct 2 Papa John's Pizza is founded by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville, Indiana; it would go on to become the fourth-largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States
• Oct 3 US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills

• 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 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
• Oct 11 US Vice Presidential candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George H. W. Bush (R), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Oct 13 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
• Oct 14 Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds
• Oct 15 Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
• Oct 15 Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud

• Oct 17 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
• Oct 18 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB 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.

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