1984

Other meanings of 1984:

Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian satire by George Orwell.

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s

Years: 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 - 1984 - 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

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Events

January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 22 independent units
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 30 - John Turner becomes Canada's seventeenth prime minister.
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 12 - Brighton bombing (attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet)
November - Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale in the U.S. presidential election
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
1984 in literature
1984 in music
1984 in sports
- 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.
- January 22 - Super Bowl XVIII Los Angeles Raiders (38) def. Washington Redskins (9)
- 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.
- February 8 - 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo
- Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California
1984 in television
- January 28 - singer Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial
- Jeopardy! makes it's debut on NBC.
- The Cosby Show debuts on NBC.

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 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 - François Truffaut, French film director

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