1984 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1984?
- January 1, 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
- January 22, 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial.
- February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
- February 13, 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- March 22, 1984 – 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.
- April 2, 1984 – Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched aboard Soyuz T-11, and becomes the first Indian in space.
- April 4, 1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- April 13, 1984 – India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
- 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.
- June 6, 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
- 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.
- September 5, 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- September 18, 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
- November 2, 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- November 10, 1984 – The first Breeders’ Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
- December 4, 1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
- December 19, 1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People’s Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
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