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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. This article is about the year 1984. For the novel, see Nineteen Eighty-Four. For other uses, see 1984 (disambiguation). "MCMLXXXIV" redirects here. For the album, see MCMLXXXIV (album). 1984 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise ...
1984 Summer Olympics boycott: The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Forces veteran Denis Lortie shoots and kills three government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building in Quebec City. The National Assembly's sergeant-at-arms, René Jalbert, talks Lortie into ...
2 April – Youth gangs run riot in Wolverhampton, looting from shops. [1]4 April – Peace protesters evicted from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. [2]17 April – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London in the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege. 11 other people are also shot but survive.
26 January – Aboriginal leader Lowitja (Lois) O'Donoghue becomes Australian of the Year. [ 2 ] 27 to 30 January – The final Narara Music Festival on the Central Coast of New South Wales features INXS , Simple Minds , The Pretenders , Talking Heads , Eurythmics and Def Leppard .
6 January – The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announces that a record of nearly 1.8 million cars were sold in Britain last year. The best-selling car for the second year running was the Ford Escort with more than 174,000 sales. [1] 9 January – Sarah Tisdall, a 23-year-old Foreign Office clerk, is charged under the Official ...
7. 'The Terminator' US Release Date: October 26, 1984 “The Terminator” was a low-budget science fiction movie that made James Cameron one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood and ...
1984 in the United States by state or territory (55 C) 1984 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1984 disestablishments in the United States (40 C, 16 P)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun: 1983: Norway 1 – March 1984, Republic of Ireland 1 – February 1984, New Zealand 1 for 3 weeks May 1984, Australia 1 for 2 weeks December 1983, UK 2 – January 1984, US BB 2 – January 1984, US BB 2 of 1984, Canada 2 – February 1984, POP 2 of 1984, Netherlands 3 – February 1984, Austria 3 – May 1984 ...