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1984
Events * January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. * January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 22 independent units * January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time. * January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. * January 22 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Computer corporation in a Super Bowl commercial evoking images from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. * January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale * February 3 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the tenth space shuttle mission. * February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. * March 6 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) * March 14 - Gerry Adams seriously wounded in an assassination attempt * March 16 - CIA station chief stationed in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity. * March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California at charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were later dropped as completely unfounded. * April 4 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons. * May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. * June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar. * June 30 - John Turner becomes Canada's seventeenth prime minister. * July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gun-fire killing 21 people before being shot dead by police. * July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States. * July 23 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. * July 25 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. * August 4 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. * August 16 - Carmaker John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine. * September 5 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. * September 17 - Brian Mulroney becomes Canada's eighteenth prime minister. * October 5 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6). * October 11 - Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb. * October 11 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American women to perform a space walk. * October 12 - Brighton bombing (attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet) * October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed). * November - Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale in the U.S. presidential election * November 28 - William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States * December 19 - People's Republic of China and United Kingdom signs the Sino-British Joint Declaration which concerns with the future of Hong Kong. * Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles California USA * The influential rap group, the Ultramagnetic MCs, form in the Bronx. * Ethiopian famine begins. * The New International Version of the Bible is published. Art, Culture & Fashion * 1984 in film o Amadeus o Ghost Busters o The Killing Fields o Places in the Heart o May 23 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom * 1984 in sports o January 14 - Ray Mancini stops 2 time world champion Bobby Chacon in the third round of a long awaited boxing fight, to retain the WBA's world Lightweight title. o January 22 - Super Bowl XVIII Los Angeles Raiders (38) def. Washington Redskins (9) o January 27 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump. o February 8 - 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo o May 19 - The NHL's Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup defeating the New York Islanders 5-2 at Edmonton and ending the Islanders dynasty. The first in Oilers club history and of a new dynasty. o Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California * 1984 in television o January 28 - singer Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial o Jeopardy! makes it's debut on NBC. o The Cosby Show debuts on NBC. Births * April 10 - Mandy Moore, singer, actress * April 18 - America Ferrera, actress * August 1 - Alessandra Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton * August 1 - Nicole Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton * September 16 - Prince Harry of Wales, English prince * September 27 - Avril Lavigne, singer * November 9 - Delta Goodrem, actress, singer * November 21 - Jena Malone, actress Deaths * January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor. Most prominent as Tarzan. * February 9 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union * February 15 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress * February 22 - Jessamyn West, writer * March 1 - Jackie Coogan, actor * March 5 - William Powell, actor * March 21 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor * April 1 - Marvin Gaye, singer * April 22 - Ansel Adams, American photographer * April 26 - Count Basie, musician, composer * May 16 - Andy Kaufman, comedian * May 16 - Irwin Shaw, author * June 26 - Michel Foucault, philosopher * July 8 - Brassa, photographer * July 26 - Ed Gein, serial killer * September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, actor * October 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician, along with three of the other victims of the Brighton bombing * October 20 - Paul Dirac, physicist * October 21 - Franois Truffaut, French film director Nobel Prizes * Physics - Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer * Chemistry - Robert Bruce Merrifield * Medicine - Niels K Jerne, Georges JF Khler, Csar Milstein * Literature -Jaroslav Seifert * Peace - Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu * Economics - Richard Stone Fictional references to the year * George Orwell's dystopian satire Nineteen Eighty-Four about a future totalitarian society was set in this year. The date was chosen by transposing 1948, the year in which Orwell wrote the book. Nineteen Eighty-Four was used as an imaginary year in the future by others as well, much like 1999 and 2001 was.
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