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1984 |
| January 1th |
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Brunei
became a fully independent state. |
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| January 10th |
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The
United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations. |
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| January 16th |
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In
the United States, Jesse Jackson launched his campaign for US
President in Philadelphia, USA. |
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| January 24th |
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In
the United States, the first Apple Macintosh computer went on
sale. |
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| February
3rd |
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NASA's
Space Shuttle 'Challenger' was launched from Kennedy Space Centre,
on the tenth space shuttle mission. |
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| February
7th |
|
NASA
astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the
first untethered space walk. |
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| February
9th |
|
In
Russia, the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov died. Andropov the general
secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee
and President of the Soviet Union. |
|
| February
13th |
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In
Russia, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov
as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. |
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| February
18th |
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The
Vatican and Italian government signed a new concordant which
changed the official religion to Roman Catholic. |
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| February
26th |
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In
Lebanon, US Marines as part of the peace keepers force, pulled
out of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. |
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| February
29th |
|
In
Canada, the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced
his retirement from office. |
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| March 5th |
|
In
the Iran-Iraq war, Iran accused Iraq of the use of chemical
weapons. UN condemns the use on March 30. |
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| March 5th |
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In
India, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered an attack
on the 'Golden Temple', the Sikh holy site. |
|
| March 6th |
|
In
Britain, the Miners strike began. The strike would last for
12 months. |
|
| March 14th |
|
Sinn
Fein's Gerry Adams and three others were seriously injured in
a gun attack by the UVF. |
|
| March 16th |
|
In
Lebanon, William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped
by Islamic fundamentalists Islamic Jihad and would die in captivity. |
|
| March 23rd |
|
In
Britain, British civil servant Sarah Tisdall, who had informed
'The Guardian' newspaper that cruise missiles were to be based
in Britain, was sentenced to six months imprisonment. |
|
| March 30th |
|
The
UN condemned Iraq for the use chemical weapons against Iran
in the Iran-Iraq war. |
|
| April 4th |
|
In
the United States, President Ronald Reagan called for an international
ban on chemical weapons in response to the use by Iraq in the
Iran-Iraq war. |
|
| April 12th |
|
Palestinian
gunmen hijacked an Israeli bus and took the passengers hostage.
Israeli special forces stormed the bus and killed 2. 1 hostage
was killed in the operation. 2 other hijackers were captured
and were killed during Israeli secret service interrogations. |
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| April 13th |
|
India
launched 'Operation Meghdoot', as most of the Siachen Glacier
in Kashmir came under Indian control. |
|
| April 17th |
|
In
Britain, WPC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered. A Libyan assassin
shot demonstrators from a window of the Libyan embassy in St.
James Square, London. The gunman killed the woman police officer.
No person faced trial for the murder. |
|
| May 8th |
|
The
Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles, California. |
|
| June 5th |
|
The
Indian forces began 'Operation Blue Star', the planned attack
on the Sikh holy site, Golden Temple in Amritsar. The attack
was ordered by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
|
| June 6th |
|
In
India, Indian troops stormed the 'Golden Temple' at Amritsar,
the Sikh's holiest shrine. The attack killed an estimated 1000
people. |
|
| June 8th |
|
In
the United States, a deadly F5 tornado nearly destroyed the
town of Barneveld in Wisconsin. The tornado killed 9 and injured
nearly 200 people. It also caused an estimated US$25 million
of damage. |
|
| June 20th |
|
In
Britain, the British education system implemented the biggest
exam shake up in a decade, when it announced that O-level and
CSE exams would be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE. |
|
| June 22nd |
|
The
inaugural flight of the new airline Virgin Atlantic, owned by
English businessman Richard Branson. |
|
| July 18th |
|
In
United States, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty killed 21 people
when he sprayed a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire in San
Ysidro, California. Huberty was shot dead. |
|
| July
25th |
|
Salyut
7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform
a space walk. |
|
| July 28th |
|
In
the United States, the 1984 Summer Olympics opened in Los Angeles. |
|
| August 21st |
|
In
the Philippines, a demonstration of over 500,000 people in Manila
demonstrated against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. |
|
| August 30th |
|
NASA
launched the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' from Kennedy Space Centre,
Florida, on its maiden voyage, on mission STS-41-D. |
|
| September
5th |
|
NASA
mission STS-41-D ended when the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' landed
safely after its maiden voyage. |
|
| September
26th |
|
United
Kingdom and People's Republic of China signed the initial agreement
to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. |
|
| October 5th |
|
Astronaut
Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, on board the
Space Shuttle 'Challenger' on mission STS-41-6. |
|
| October 11th |
|
Astronaut
Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform
a space walk during the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' mission STS-41-6. |
|
| October 12th |
|
In
Britain, the IRA detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton,
East Sussex, during the Conservative Party conference. The attack
was an attempt to assassinate the British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher and the British Cabinet. |
|
| October 19th |
|
In
Poland, the Polish secret police arrested the Catholic priest
Jerzy Popieluszko, due to his support of the Solidarity trade
union movement. |
|
| October 30 |
|
In
Poland, the dead body of Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko was
found in a reservoir. Polish secret police arrested him on October
19th. |
|
| October 31st |
|
In
India, the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated
by two Sikh security guards. 2,700 Sikhs were killed in riots
in New Delhi. |
|
| November
2nd |
|
In
the United States, Velma Barfield became the first woman to
be executed in the United States since 1962. |
|
| November
6th |
|
In
the United States, President Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat
Walter F. Mondale and was re-elected for a second term as President
of the United States in the largest landslide in US election
history. |
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| |
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In
Africa, a famine devastated Ethiopia. News of the famine shocked
the world into action. |
|
| November
25th |
|
In
Britain, top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio
in London and formed 'Band Aid' and recorded the song 'Do They
Know It's Christmas' to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. |
|
| November
30th |
|
The
Tamil Tigers began the purge of the Sinhalese from North and
East Sri Lanka. 127 people were killed. |
|
| December
3rd |
|
In India, a methyl isocyanate leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide
plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and killed over 2,000 people.
It injured between 150,000 to 600,000 other people, 6,000 of
whom would later die from their injuries. The 'Bhopal Disaster'
became on of the worst industrial disasters in history. |
|
| December
8th |
|
Soviet
space pioneer Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey died. Chelomey
was an engineer in the Soviet aerospace industry, and later
part of the Soviet space programme. |
|
| December
19th |
|
The
People's Republic of China and United Kingdom signed the Sino-British
Joint Declaration which concerned the future of Hong Kong. |
|
| December
28th |
|
A
Soviet cruise missile plunged into Inarinjärvi lake in
Finnish Lapland. The Finnish authorities announced the incident
to the public on January 3rd 1985. |
|
| December
31st |
|
In
India, Rajiv Gandhi became the new Prime Minister and replaced
the assassinated Indira Gandhi. |
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