Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1984. This year saw 274 significant events. 37 notable figures were born. 13 notable figures passed away.
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years…
"Night Court," starring Harry Anderson and created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, premieres on NBC; runs for nine seasons
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that private home use of VCRs to record TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright law
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, best known for its consumer electronics, software and online services.
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, performing to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" in their free dance routine and recording 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression [1]
The 26th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1984, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again…
Tennis player Yannick Noah (23) weds beauty queen Cecilia Rodhe (22) in Cameroon
Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (23) weds swimmer Janet Buchan in Menlo Park, California
Kate & Allie is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as two divorced mothers who decide to live…
NFL owners pass the infamous anti-celebration rule
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (36) weds singer and dancer Sarah Brightman (23) in Hampshire, England
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (64) divorces Margaret Sinclair (35) due to irreconcilable differences, after 13 years of marriage
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Actress Annette Bening (25) weds J. Steven White
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album "Born in the USA," his biggest commercial success that topped the charts in 11 countries and sold over 30 million copies worldwide
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:30 AM on 31 October 1984 at her residence in Safdarjung Road, New Delhi.
"Ghostbusters", American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson premieres
Warner Bros Records releases the sixth studio album by Prince, "Purple Rain"; his commercial peak, the film soundtrack album sells over 25 million copies, tops the charts in five countries, and wins two Grammy Awards and an Academy Award
Montreal Expos infielder Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with hit #3,502
Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a...
Cosby is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1996, to April 28, 2000.
"Let's Go Crazy" is a 1984 song by Prince and The Revolution, from the album Purple Rain. It is the opening track on both the album and the film Purple Rain.
George Gervin, nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for...
"The Terminator" directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn is released in the US
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye.
Bhopal disaster: A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259. Other estimates are as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured.
Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin
Singer and actress Bette Midler (39) weds Argentine actor-performance artist Martin Von Hasselberg (35) at Starlight Chapel in Las Vegas
Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to transfer sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997 and to establish the "one country, two systems" framework
American "Charlie's Angels" actress Kate Jackson (36) divorces business executive David Greenwald after 2 years of marriage
16-year-old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
The Tunisian bread riots were a series of violent demonstrations in Tunisia that occurred from December 1983 to January 1984, triggered by a rise in the price of bread due to an IMF-imposed austerity...
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41 B mission
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, formally known as State of Brunei, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68...
"TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
Conductor Eugene Ormandy leads his last concert, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Denver Nuggets defeat visiting San Antonio Spurs 163-155, highest-scoring non-overtime NBA game in history at the time, at McNichols Sports Arena
TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
Ray Mancini scores a 3rd-round TKO of Bobby Chacon to retain his WBA lightweight title in Reno, Nevada; Chacon so severely battered he thanks referee Richard Steele for stopping the fight
Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
California Supreme Court rejects the request of quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia's to starve herself to death in a public hospital
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's college basketball record with 70 points in 116-21 victory over Pratt Institute at Purchase, New York
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern...
Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. It operates under the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of NBCUniversal, which itself is a subsidiary of Comcast.
American lawyer and businessman David Stern becomes NBA Commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien; stays in position until 2014
The South Lebanon Army or South Lebanese Army (SLA; Arabic: جيش لبنان الجنوبي, Jayš Lubnān al-Janūbiyy), also known as the Lahad Army (جيش لحد) or as the De Facto Forces (DFF), was a militia founded...
10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 launches
CommuniCore was a pavilion dedicated to technological advance located at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
Muslim militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
For the 1st time eight people are in space
East German ski jumper Jens Weißflog wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals in the Normal Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games
10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 returns to Earth
Wayne Douglas Gretzky is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999.
12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972), Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the men's luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics
6-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish 2nd & 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games
East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
Iraq resumes air attacks on Iran
Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)...
Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Iraq engaged in chemical warfare against Iran on multiple occasions, including more than 30 targeted attacks on Iranian civilians.
The 1984–85 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 68th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, the 58th season as the Maple Leafs.
In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the...
From 1984 until 1985, a major miners' strike shook the British coal industry in response to proposed closures of uneconomic pits.
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi).
-5°F ties lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio (first set in 1948)
Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action; strikes fail to achieve goals
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating of STS 41-C mission
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman ( KOWF-mən; January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian".
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
The Baltimore Colts were a professional American football team based in Baltimore, United States from 1953 to 1983, when its owner Robert Irsay moved the franchise to Indianapolis.
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
Benefactors is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn. It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila.
11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C): Challenger 5 launches
U.S. Census Bureau estimates rank Los Angeles as second most populated city, displacing Chicago which held the position since 1890; New York City remains the top
Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C): Challenger 5 returns to Earth
Farewell concert of Dutch pop-ska band Doe Maar at Maasport in Den Bosch, Netherlands
Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, with green and gold the national colors
Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night television news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the...
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
MLB Cleveland Indians' infielder Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 innings)
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr., nicknamed "the Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire 21-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore...
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN).
Johan Cruijff quits soccer
Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41-D
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. The Reds compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Pat LaFontaine scores two goals in 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game
The 2011 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 111th season. The season began on March 31 at New York against the Yankees, and the home opener was on April 8 against the Kansas City Royals.
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
Tulsa ( TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and the 48th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census.
Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC
Bomb explodes in rebel leader Edén Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua
The 57th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the Capital Hilton on May 30–31, 1984, sponsored by the E.W.
Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
"Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
The 38th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 3, 1984, at the Gershwin Theatre and broadcast by CBS television. Hosts were Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.
1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
"Laserphonic Fantasy" light show premieres at Epcot
US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time
Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Christian denomination based in the United States.
"Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year-old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
Liechtenstein is the last European country to grant women the right to vote through a referendum with 51.3% (men) in favour
After 22 years, England Test cricket spinner Derek Underwood hits a maiden 1st class century (111) for Kent v Sussex at Hastings
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
Williston is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. Originally rural and laid out with many farms, in recent decades it has developed into a thriving suburb of Burlington, the largest...
York Minster, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England.
Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon is convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical/psychiatric prison and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018. [1]
Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
The prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (Premier ministre de la République française), is the nominal head of government...
21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space.
23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles
American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter win the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the Los Angeles Olympics
Alvenus tanker at Cameron, Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
Leeza Gibbons' first appearance on "Entertainment Tonight"
Jeff Blatnick becomes the first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics while in remission for Hodgkin’s disease
17-year-old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favorite Michael Gross of West Germany in the 200 m butterfly at the Los Angeles Olympics in a world record time of 1:57.04
After Americans Roger Kingdom and Greg Foster equal the Olympic record in the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles in Los Angeles, Kingdom beats Foster in the final with a new Games record of 13.20 seconds
Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles, later recognized as a world record
,799 fans attend the soccer match between Brazil and France
The 1984 San Diego Padres season was the 16th season in franchise history. San Diego won the National League (NL) championship and advanced to the World Series, which they lost to the Detroit Tigers...
The Oujda Treaty (also known as the Arabic–African Federation Treaty) was signed on 13 August 1984 between King Hassan II of Morocco and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.
IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks against the Turkish military
John Zachary DeLorean ( də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry.
Triangle Oil Corp's above-ground storage tank in Jacksonville, Florida, spills 2.5 million gallons of oil after lightning ignites a fire
The 100 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896.
Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strike out 200
French airship capsizes
Czech Zdenka Silhava sets a world record in the women's discus with a throw of 74.55 m
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
USSR performs an underground nuclear test
12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 launches for a 6-day excursion
Tim Witherspoon is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003. He was a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986.
Willie Totten for Mississippi Valley State makes Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions
28-year-old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois State Lottery
Jerry Lewis's 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti is sentenced to 2 years on politically motivated charges of currency smuggling [1]
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery completes its first spaceflight, STS-41-D, with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts give him the NL rookie record of 236
Challenger moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-41G mission
Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets sets the rookie strikeout record at 251
The Morocco Pavilion is a Moroccan-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States.
Dwight Gooden ties the record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
Reggie Jackson is the 13th player to hit 500 home runs
Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force.
Timothy Raines Sr., nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
NASA launches Galaxy-C
The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 23, 1984. The ceremony was broadcast on CBS, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California. The top shows of the night were Cheers and...
George Lee "Sparky" Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager.
The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Egypt–Iraq relations have alternated over time between cooperation and rivalry. The relationship soured in 1977 following Egypt's peace accords with Israel.
5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
"Drive" by The Cars peaks at #3; written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr, it is the group's biggest hit single
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President...
Due to a strike by MLB umpires, the first four NLCS games are played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 13-0
US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
Striking umpires return for Game 5 of the NLCS, and the San Diego Padres win the pennant
Walter Jerry Payton (July 25, 1953 – November 1, 1999) was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer.
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
NFL Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24-20 loss to visiting NY Jets
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and...
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.
Discovery moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-51A mission
Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails is completed
Islanders' Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick in his 6th career 4-goal game, an 8-3 win over the visiting Los Angeles Kings
Future Pro Football HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons in the NFL with Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints
Chicago Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
Eleven members of the Colombo crime family are arrested
"Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
NY Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30)
The Cy Young Award, officially the Cy Young Memorial Award, is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL).
Howard Lindsay Goodall is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards.
First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, were a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
Funk-rocker Prince opens his "Purple Rain" tour featuring his new band 'The Revolution' with the 1st of seven shows at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan
STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
14th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery (STS 51-A) launches
Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
NBC premiere of "Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story", fact based telepic of actress Saldana's near fatal attack and its aftermath
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body or interstellar object that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.
Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
"Emergency" 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)
14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
Golden State Warrior Purvis Short scores career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Dwight Eugene Gooden, nicknamed "Dr. K" and "Doc", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers, Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes for 472 yards, including a game-ending 48-yard hail mary pass for a touchdown to beat Miami 47-45
Wasim Akram (Punjabi, Urdu: وَسیم اکرم; born 3 June 1966) is a Pakistani cricket commentator, coach, and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team.
Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 & Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)
Julio María Sanguinetti wins Uruguay's presidential election
After 518 goals and 14 years with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires abruptly
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
Oakland Athletics trade outfielder Rickey Henderson and pitcher Bert Bradley to the New York Yankees for Tim Birtsas, Jay Howell, Stan Javier, Eric Plunk, and José Rijo.
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
The tenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985.
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The 1984 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Football League, their 48th overall, and their 39th in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library [1]
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Brigham Young University (BYU) beats Michigan, 24-17 in the Holiday Bowl at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego to remain undefeated and secure their first ever NCAA Division I-A football title
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
The 1984 Mauritanian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup in Mauritania which took place on 12 December 1984.
Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
5th United Negro College Fund
Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmonton's 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games; 2nd fastest in history - recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983
Richard John Cyril Allen is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978.
Calvin Harris, Scottish musician, known for scottish dj, was born on 1984-01-17. Adam Richard Wiles, known professionally as Calvin Harris (and sometimes under the stage name Love Regenerator), is a…
Aziz Ansari, American actor and comedian, known for american actor and comedian, was born on 1984-02-23. Aziz Ismail Ansari is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
Emily Blunt, British actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-02-23. Emily Olivia Laura Blunt is a British actress.
Kate Mara, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1984-02-27. Kate Rooney Mara ( MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress.
Carrie Underwood, American musician, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1984-03-10. Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer and songwriter.
Mo Farah, British athlete, known for british track and field athlete, was born on 1984-03-23. Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah is a British former long-distance runner.
Miranda Kerr, Australian model, known for australian model, was born on 1984-04-20. Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-04-21. Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw MBE is an English actress.
Alexis Ohanian entrepreneur, known for american entrepreneur, was born on 1984-04-24. Alexis Kerry Ohanian Sr. is an American internet entrepreneur and investor.
David Lee is born
Henry Cavill, British actor, known for british actor, was born on 1984-05-05. Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill ( KAV-əl; born 5 May 1983) is a British actor.
Holly Valance, Australian british actress, singer, model, and political activist, known for australian and british actress, singer, model, and political activist, was born on 1984-05-11.
Timnit Gebru is born
Kim Clijsters, Belgian athlete, known for belgian former tennis player, was born on 1984-06-08. Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian former professional tennis player.
Leelee Sobieski, American actress and artist, known for american actress and artist, was born on 1984-06-10.
Macklemore, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-06-19. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore ( MAK-lə-mor; formerly Professor Macklemore), is…
Edward Snowden whistleblower and nsa contractor, known for whistleblower and nsa contractor, was born on 1984-06-21.
Aaron Peirsol, American athlete, known for american swimmer, was born on 1984-07-23.
Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker, known for american actress and filmmaker, was born on 1984-08-04. Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.
Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor, known for australian actor, was born on 1984-08-11. Christopher Hemsworth is an Australian actor and film producer.
Anita Sarkeesian, American canadian-american feminist media critic, known for canadian-american feminist media critic, was born on 1984-08-15.
Andrew Garfield, American american actor, known for english and american actor, was born on 1984-08-20. Andrew Russell Garfield is an English and American actor.
Joseph Mazzello, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-09-21. Joseph Francis Mazzello III is an American actor.
Donald Glover actor and musician, known for american actor and musician, was born on 1984-09-25.
Tessa Thompson, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1984-10-03. Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress.
Felicity Jones, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-10-17. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress.
Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress, known for swedish actress, was born on 1984-10-19. Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström is a Swedish actress.
Adrienne Bailon, American singer, actress, and television personality, known for american singer, actress, and television personality, was born on 1984-10-24.
Miranda Lambert, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1984-11-10. Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician.
Adam Driver, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-11-19. Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor.
Future [Nayvadius Wilburn], American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-11-20.
Aaron Rodgers, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1984-12-02.
Ronnie Radke, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1984-12-15.
Jonah Hill, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-12-20. Jonah Hill is an American actor and filmmaker.
Alexander Wang, American fashion designer, known for american fashion designer, was born on 1984-12-26. Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer.
Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and entrepreneur, known for american computer programmer and entrepreneur, was born on 1984-12-30.
Juan Guaidó, Venezuelan venezuelan politician, known for venezuelan politician, was born on 1984-07-28. Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaidó Márquez is a Venezuelan politician and opposition figure.
Ray Kroc, American business magnate, known for american business magnate, died on 1984-01-14.
Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer, water-polo player, and actor, known for american swimmer, water-polo player, and actor, died on 1984-01-20.
Yuri Andropov dies
Jackie Coogan, American actor, known for american actor, died on 1984-03-01. John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a…
Marvin Gaye singer and songwriter, known for american singer and songwriter, died on 1984-04-01. Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr.
Count Basie, American jazz musician and composer, known for american jazz musician and composer, died on 1984-04-26.
Stanislaw Ulam, American mathematician and physicist, known for polish mathematician and physicist, died on 1984-05-13.
Clarence Campbell dies
Ed Gein, American murderer and body snatcher, known for american murderer and body snatcher, died on 1984-07-26.
Richard Burton, Welsh welsh actor, known for welsh actor, died on 1984-08-05. Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.
Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager, known for american baseball player and manager, died on 1984-09-07.
Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager, known for american baseball player and manager, died on 1984-10-01.
Indira Gandhi dies
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years…
"Night Court," starring Harry Anderson and created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, premieres on NBC; runs for nine seasons
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that private home use of VCRs to record TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright law
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, best known for its consumer electronics, software and online services.
Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean famously dominate ice dancing at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics, performing to Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" in their free dance routine and recording 9-of-9 perfect scores for artistic impression [1]
The 26th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1984, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again…
Tennis player Yannick Noah (23) weds beauty queen Cecilia Rodhe (22) in Cameroon
Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (23) weds swimmer Janet Buchan in Menlo Park, California
Kate & Allie is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989, starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as two divorced mothers who decide to live…
NFL owners pass the infamous anti-celebration rule
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (36) weds singer and dancer Sarah Brightman (23) in Hampshire, England
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (64) divorces Margaret Sinclair (35) due to irreconcilable differences, after 13 years of marriage
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Actress Annette Bening (25) weds J. Steven White
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album "Born in the USA," his biggest commercial success that topped the charts in 11 countries and sold over 30 million copies worldwide
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:30 AM on 31 October 1984 at her residence in Safdarjung Road, New Delhi.
"Ghostbusters", American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson premieres
Warner Bros Records releases the sixth studio album by Prince, "Purple Rain"; his commercial peak, the film soundtrack album sells over 25 million copies, tops the charts in five countries, and wins two Grammy Awards and an Academy Award
Montreal Expos infielder Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with hit #3,502
Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a...
Cosby is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1996, to April 28, 2000.
"Let's Go Crazy" is a 1984 song by Prince and The Revolution, from the album Purple Rain. It is the opening track on both the album and the film Purple Rain.
George Gervin, nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for...
"The Terminator" directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn is released in the US
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye.
Bhopal disaster: A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259. Other estimates are as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured.
Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin
Singer and actress Bette Midler (39) weds Argentine actor-performance artist Martin Von Hasselberg (35) at Starlight Chapel in Las Vegas
Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to transfer sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997 and to establish the "one country, two systems" framework
American "Charlie's Angels" actress Kate Jackson (36) divorces business executive David Greenwald after 2 years of marriage
16-year-old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
The Tunisian bread riots were a series of violent demonstrations in Tunisia that occurred from December 1983 to January 1984, triggered by a rise in the price of bread due to an IMF-imposed austerity...
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41 B mission
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, formally known as State of Brunei, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68...
"TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
Conductor Eugene Ormandy leads his last concert, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Denver Nuggets defeat visiting San Antonio Spurs 163-155, highest-scoring non-overtime NBA game in history at the time, at McNichols Sports Arena
TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
Ray Mancini scores a 3rd-round TKO of Bobby Chacon to retain his WBA lightweight title in Reno, Nevada; Chacon so severely battered he thanks referee Richard Steele for stopping the fight
Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
California Supreme Court rejects the request of quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia's to starve herself to death in a public hospital
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's college basketball record with 70 points in 116-21 victory over Pratt Institute at Purchase, New York
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern...
Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. It operates under the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of NBCUniversal, which itself is a subsidiary of Comcast.
American lawyer and businessman David Stern becomes NBA Commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien; stays in position until 2014
The South Lebanon Army or South Lebanese Army (SLA; Arabic: جيش لبنان الجنوبي, Jayš Lubnān al-Janūbiyy), also known as the Lahad Army (جيش لحد) or as the De Facto Forces (DFF), was a militia founded...
10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 launches
CommuniCore was a pavilion dedicated to technological advance located at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
Muslim militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
American astronaut Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk
For the 1st time eight people are in space
East German ski jumper Jens Weißflog wins first of 3 career Olympic gold medals in the Normal Hill individual event at the Sarajevo Winter Games
10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 returns to Earth
Wayne Douglas Gretzky is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999.
12 years after winning the doubles in Sapporo (1972), Italian Paul Hildgarten wins the men's luge singles at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics
6-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss of Norway and West German Peter Angerer finish 2nd & 3rd respectively in the relay at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; both have complete sets of medals from biathlon events at the Games
East German figure skater Katarina Witt wins first of 2 consecutive women's singles gold medals at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins gold in Calgary (1988)
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
Iraq resumes air attacks on Iran
Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)...
Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Iraq engaged in chemical warfare against Iran on multiple occasions, including more than 30 targeted attacks on Iranian civilians.
The 1984–85 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 68th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, the 58th season as the Maple Leafs.
In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the...
From 1984 until 1985, a major miners' strike shook the British coal industry in response to proposed closures of uneconomic pits.
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi).
-5°F ties lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio (first set in 1948)
Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action; strikes fail to achieve goals
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating of STS 41-C mission
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman ( KOWF-mən; January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer and performance artist. He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian".
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
The Baltimore Colts were a professional American football team based in Baltimore, United States from 1953 to 1983, when its owner Robert Irsay moved the franchise to Indianapolis.
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
Benefactors is a 1984 play by Michael Frayn. It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila.
11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C): Challenger 5 launches
U.S. Census Bureau estimates rank Los Angeles as second most populated city, displacing Chicago which held the position since 1890; New York City remains the top
Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C): Challenger 5 returns to Earth
Farewell concert of Dutch pop-ska band Doe Maar at Maasport in Den Bosch, Netherlands
Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, with green and gold the national colors
Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night television news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the...
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the...
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
MLB Cleveland Indians' infielder Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 innings)
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr., nicknamed "the Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire 21-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore...
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN).
Johan Cruijff quits soccer
Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41-D
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. The Reds compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Pat LaFontaine scores two goals in 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game
The 2011 Detroit Tigers season was the team's 111th season. The season began on March 31 at New York against the Yankees, and the home opener was on April 8 against the Kansas City Royals.
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
Tulsa ( TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and the 48th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census.
Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC
Bomb explodes in rebel leader Edén Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua
The 57th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C. at the Capital Hilton on May 30–31, 1984, sponsored by the E.W.
Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
"Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
The 38th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 3, 1984, at the Gershwin Theatre and broadcast by CBS television. Hosts were Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.
1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
"Laserphonic Fantasy" light show premieres at Epcot
US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time
Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Christian denomination based in the United States.
"Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year-old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
Liechtenstein is the last European country to grant women the right to vote through a referendum with 51.3% (men) in favour
After 22 years, England Test cricket spinner Derek Underwood hits a maiden 1st class century (111) for Kent v Sussex at Hastings
Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
Williston is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. Originally rural and laid out with many farms, in recent decades it has developed into a thriving suburb of Burlington, the largest...
York Minster, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England.
Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon is convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical/psychiatric prison and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018. [1]
Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
The prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (Premier ministre de la République française), is the nominal head of government...
21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space.
23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles
American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter win the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the Los Angeles Olympics
Alvenus tanker at Cameron, Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
Leeza Gibbons' first appearance on "Entertainment Tonight"
Jeff Blatnick becomes the first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics while in remission for Hodgkin’s disease
17-year-old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favorite Michael Gross of West Germany in the 200 m butterfly at the Los Angeles Olympics in a world record time of 1:57.04
After Americans Roger Kingdom and Greg Foster equal the Olympic record in the semi-finals of the 110 m hurdles in Los Angeles, Kingdom beats Foster in the final with a new Games record of 13.20 seconds
Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles, later recognized as a world record
,799 fans attend the soccer match between Brazil and France
The 1984 San Diego Padres season was the 16th season in franchise history. San Diego won the National League (NL) championship and advanced to the World Series, which they lost to the Detroit Tigers...
The Oujda Treaty (also known as the Arabic–African Federation Treaty) was signed on 13 August 1984 between King Hassan II of Morocco and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.
IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks against the Turkish military
John Zachary DeLorean ( də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry.
Triangle Oil Corp's above-ground storage tank in Jacksonville, Florida, spills 2.5 million gallons of oil after lightning ignites a fire
The 100 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 100 metres has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896.
Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strike out 200
French airship capsizes
Czech Zdenka Silhava sets a world record in the women's discus with a throw of 74.55 m
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
USSR performs an underground nuclear test
12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 launches for a 6-day excursion
Tim Witherspoon is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003. He was a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986.
Willie Totten for Mississippi Valley State makes Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions
28-year-old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois State Lottery
Jerry Lewis's 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti is sentenced to 2 years on politically motivated charges of currency smuggling [1]
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery completes its first spaceflight, STS-41-D, with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts give him the NL rookie record of 236
Challenger moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-41G mission
Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets sets the rookie strikeout record at 251
The Morocco Pavilion is a Moroccan-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States.
Dwight Gooden ties the record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
Reggie Jackson is the 13th player to hit 500 home runs
Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force.
Timothy Raines Sr., nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.
NASA launches Galaxy-C
The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 23, 1984. The ceremony was broadcast on CBS, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California. The top shows of the night were Cheers and...
George Lee "Sparky" Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager.
The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
Egypt–Iraq relations have alternated over time between cooperation and rivalry. The relationship soured in 1977 following Egypt's peace accords with Israel.
5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division.
"Drive" by The Cars peaks at #3; written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr, it is the group's biggest hit single
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President...
Due to a strike by MLB umpires, the first four NLCS games are played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 13-0
US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
Striking umpires return for Game 5 of the NLCS, and the San Diego Padres win the pennant
Walter Jerry Payton (July 25, 1953 – November 1, 1999) was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes the first US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer.
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
NFL Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24-20 loss to visiting NY Jets
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and...
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 – May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.
Discovery moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-51A mission
Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails is completed
Islanders' Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick in his 6th career 4-goal game, an 8-3 win over the visiting Los Angeles Kings
Future Pro Football HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons in the NFL with Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints
Chicago Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
Eleven members of the Colombo crime family are arrested
"Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
NY Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30)
The Cy Young Award, officially the Cy Young Memorial Award, is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL).
Howard Lindsay Goodall is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards.
First NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - LA Clippers beat NY Knicks, 107-105
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, were a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
Funk-rocker Prince opens his "Purple Rain" tour featuring his new band 'The Revolution' with the 1st of seven shows at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan
STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
14th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery (STS 51-A) launches
Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
NBC premiere of "Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story", fact based telepic of actress Saldana's near fatal attack and its aftermath
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body or interstellar object that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.
Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
"Emergency" 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)
14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
Golden State Warrior Purvis Short scores career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Dwight Eugene Gooden, nicknamed "Dr. K" and "Doc", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers, Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes for 472 yards, including a game-ending 48-yard hail mary pass for a touchdown to beat Miami 47-45
Wasim Akram (Punjabi, Urdu: وَسیم اکرم; born 3 June 1966) is a Pakistani cricket commentator, coach, and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team.
Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 & Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)
Julio María Sanguinetti wins Uruguay's presidential election
After 518 goals and 14 years with the Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires abruptly
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
Oakland Athletics trade outfielder Rickey Henderson and pitcher Bert Bradley to the New York Yankees for Tim Birtsas, Jay Howell, Stan Javier, Eric Plunk, and José Rijo.
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
The tenth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 6, 1984, and April 13, 1985.
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The 1984 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Football League, their 48th overall, and their 39th in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library [1]
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
Brigham Young University (BYU) beats Michigan, 24-17 in the Holiday Bowl at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego to remain undefeated and secure their first ever NCAA Division I-A football title
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
The 1984 Mauritanian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup in Mauritania which took place on 12 December 1984.
Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
5th United Negro College Fund
Wayne Gretzky scores his NHL career 32nd hat trick & adds 3 assists in Edmonton's 6-3 win over Detroit Red Wings for his 100th point in just 35 games; 2nd fastest in history - recorded 100 points in 34 games in 1983
Richard John Cyril Allen is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978.
Calvin Harris, Scottish musician, known for scottish dj, was born on 1984-01-17. Adam Richard Wiles, known professionally as Calvin Harris (and sometimes under the stage name Love Regenerator), is a…
Aziz Ansari, American actor and comedian, known for american actor and comedian, was born on 1984-02-23. Aziz Ismail Ansari is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
Emily Blunt, British actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-02-23. Emily Olivia Laura Blunt is a British actress.
Kate Mara, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1984-02-27. Kate Rooney Mara ( MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress.
Carrie Underwood, American musician, known for american singer and actress, was born on 1984-03-10. Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer and songwriter.
Mo Farah, British athlete, known for british track and field athlete, was born on 1984-03-23. Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah is a British former long-distance runner.
Miranda Kerr, Australian model, known for australian model, was born on 1984-04-20. Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-04-21. Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw MBE is an English actress.
Alexis Ohanian entrepreneur, known for american entrepreneur, was born on 1984-04-24. Alexis Kerry Ohanian Sr. is an American internet entrepreneur and investor.
David Lee is born
Henry Cavill, British actor, known for british actor, was born on 1984-05-05. Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill ( KAV-əl; born 5 May 1983) is a British actor.
Holly Valance, Australian british actress, singer, model, and political activist, known for australian and british actress, singer, model, and political activist, was born on 1984-05-11.
Timnit Gebru is born
Kim Clijsters, Belgian athlete, known for belgian former tennis player, was born on 1984-06-08. Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian former professional tennis player.
Leelee Sobieski, American actress and artist, known for american actress and artist, was born on 1984-06-10.
Macklemore, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-06-19. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore ( MAK-lə-mor; formerly Professor Macklemore), is…
Edward Snowden whistleblower and nsa contractor, known for whistleblower and nsa contractor, was born on 1984-06-21.
Aaron Peirsol, American athlete, known for american swimmer, was born on 1984-07-23.
Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker, known for american actress and filmmaker, was born on 1984-08-04. Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.
Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor, known for australian actor, was born on 1984-08-11. Christopher Hemsworth is an Australian actor and film producer.
Anita Sarkeesian, American canadian-american feminist media critic, known for canadian-american feminist media critic, was born on 1984-08-15.
Andrew Garfield, American american actor, known for english and american actor, was born on 1984-08-20. Andrew Russell Garfield is an English and American actor.
Joseph Mazzello, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-09-21. Joseph Francis Mazzello III is an American actor.
Donald Glover actor and musician, known for american actor and musician, was born on 1984-09-25.
Tessa Thompson, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1984-10-03. Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress.
Felicity Jones, English actress, known for british actress, was born on 1984-10-17. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress.
Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress, known for swedish actress, was born on 1984-10-19. Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström is a Swedish actress.
Adrienne Bailon, American singer, actress, and television personality, known for american singer, actress, and television personality, was born on 1984-10-24.
Miranda Lambert, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1984-11-10. Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician.
Adam Driver, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-11-19. Adam Douglas Driver is an American actor.
Future [Nayvadius Wilburn], American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-11-20.
Aaron Rodgers, American athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1984-12-02.
Ronnie Radke, American musician, known for american musician, was born on 1984-12-15.
Jonah Hill, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1984-12-20. Jonah Hill is an American actor and filmmaker.
Alexander Wang, American fashion designer, known for american fashion designer, was born on 1984-12-26. Alexander Wang is an American fashion designer.
Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and entrepreneur, known for american computer programmer and entrepreneur, was born on 1984-12-30.
Juan Guaidó, Venezuelan venezuelan politician, known for venezuelan politician, was born on 1984-07-28. Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaidó Márquez is a Venezuelan politician and opposition figure.
Ray Kroc, American business magnate, known for american business magnate, died on 1984-01-14.
Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer, water-polo player, and actor, known for american swimmer, water-polo player, and actor, died on 1984-01-20.
Yuri Andropov dies
Jackie Coogan, American actor, known for american actor, died on 1984-03-01. John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a…
Marvin Gaye singer and songwriter, known for american singer and songwriter, died on 1984-04-01. Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr.
Count Basie, American jazz musician and composer, known for american jazz musician and composer, died on 1984-04-26.
Stanislaw Ulam, American mathematician and physicist, known for polish mathematician and physicist, died on 1984-05-13.
Clarence Campbell dies
Ed Gein, American murderer and body snatcher, known for american murderer and body snatcher, died on 1984-07-26.
Richard Burton, Welsh welsh actor, known for welsh actor, died on 1984-08-05. Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.
Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager, known for american baseball player and manager, died on 1984-09-07.
Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager, known for american baseball player and manager, died on 1984-10-01.
Indira Gandhi dies