1984 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1984?
- January 1, 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
- February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 16, 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
- April 19, 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- June 18, 1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike.
- June 22, 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
- July 23, 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
- August 11, 1984 – “We begin bombing in five minutes” - United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
- August 15, 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
- September 12, 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- September 14, 1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- September 20, 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- September 21, 1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
- September 26, 1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
- October 11, 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
- October 26, 1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- November 25, 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- December 4, 1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
- December 12, 1984 – Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
- December 20, 1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
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