Events in History 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 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 5 Greg Chappell scores 182* for Australia in his last Test innings
• Jan 6 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
• Jan 7 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• Jan 8 Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
• 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 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame


• Jan 10 US re-establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after almost 117 years
• 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 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 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 20 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
• Jan 21 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
• Jan 22 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
• Jan 24 Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
• Jan 26 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, New Jersey
• Jan 28 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled in Fuerth, West Germany

• Jan 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 1 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
• Feb 1 Indian diplomat Ravindra Mhatre kidnapped and murdered by Kashmiri terrorists in Birmingham, England
• Feb 2 Lebanese army fights in Beirut
• Feb 3 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
• 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 8 1st time 8 people in space
• Feb 8 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
• Feb 11 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
• Feb 13 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant

• Feb 15 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
• Feb 18 Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
• Feb 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 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 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC "Hymietown"
• Feb 26 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate

• Feb 27 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. changes call letters to WWRC
• Feb 27 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

• 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 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 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
• Mar 9 The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
• Mar 12 Brtish National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action
• Mar 14 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
• Mar 14 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast
• 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 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 & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
• Mar 20 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
• Mar 20 Nigerian Major-General Babatunde Idiagbon launches a campaign on ‘National Consciousness and Enlightenment’
• 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 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 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
• Mar 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Mar 30 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
• Mar 30 World's most valuable tip - New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery ticket, next day they win $6 million
• Mar 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 1 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
• Apr 1 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
• Apr 3 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
• Apr 3 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
• Apr 3 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
• Apr 4 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
• Apr 4 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
• Apr 6 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
• Apr 6 1st time 11 people in space
• Apr 6 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
• Apr 10 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
• Apr 10 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
• Apr 11 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
• Apr 11 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
• Apr 11 General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko named President of the Soviet Union
• Apr 11 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
• Apr 13 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
• Apr 14 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
• Apr 15 Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
• Apr 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR


• Apr 16 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
• Apr 17 During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead
• Apr 18 Space Shuttle Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
• Apr 19 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)
• Apr 20 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
• Apr 21 Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
• Apr 21 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
• Apr 21 Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game
• Apr 23 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
• Apr 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Apr 26 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
• Apr 26 President Reagan visits China
• Apr 27 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
• Apr 30 1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
• May 1 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 2 Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)
• May 2 Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
• May 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• May 4 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
• May 6 Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
• May 7 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
• May 8 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• May 8 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed

• May 10 Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
• May 11 Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4)
• May 11 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
• May 12 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
• May 12 France performs nuclear test
• May 12 Joe Lucius scores his 13th hole-in-one on same hole

• May 12 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
• May 16 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
• May 16 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

• May 19 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
• May 26 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• May 26 US President Ronald Reagan rules out US military intervention in Iran-Iraq war
• May 27 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC

• May 30 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua
• May 31 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
• May 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Jun 1 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
• Jun 1 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
• Jun 2 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
• Jun 3 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
• Jun 4 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal

• Jun 6 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
• Jun 6 Video game Tetris is first released in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov
• Jun 8 Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia
• Jun 9 Cyndi Lauper gets her first US #1 hit with "Time After Time"
• Jun 9 "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
• Jun 9 NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
• Jun 9 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
• Jun 10 US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time
• Jun 11 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
• Jun 11 US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
• Jun 14 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
• Jun 15 "Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
• Jun 15 American boxer Thomas Hearns retains WBC light middleweight title with 2 round KO of Roberto Durán of Panama at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; marks first time in his illustrious career Durán knocked out
• Jun 16 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)

• Jun 20 Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jun 22 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
• Jun 22 Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
• Jun 22 Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO

• Jun 24 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
• Jun 25 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
• Jun 25 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
• Jun 26 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
• Jun 27 Fire destroys a set in "A View to a Kill"
• Jun 27 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
• Jun 28 Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
• Jun 29 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
• Jun 29 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
• Jun 30 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
• Jun 30 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
• Jun 30 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
• Jun 30 Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
• Jul 1 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA
• Jul 3 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
• Jul 3 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
• Jul 4 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki
• Jul 4 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
• Jul 5 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials

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