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.
- 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.
- February 29, 1984 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader.
- March 14, 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- April 19, 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- April 20, 1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 5, 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- September 14, 1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- September 18, 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
- 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 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.
- December 3, 1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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