1984 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1984?
- January 1, 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
- January 10, 1984 – The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- January 28, 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
- February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- March 14, 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- March 16, 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
- April 17, 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
- May 6, 1984 – 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
- May 8, 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
- June 5, 1984 – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
- June 22, 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
- July 18, 1984 – McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
- September 18, 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
- September 20, 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- October 16, 1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
- October 26, 1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
- November 2, 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- November 14, 1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
- 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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