Editing 1984

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[[File:1984 Events Collage.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Clockwise from top-left: [[Diretas Já|a civil unrest movement]] demands direct presidential elections in [[Brazil]]; Indian prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]] is [[Assassination of Indira Gandhi|assassinated by two of her security guards]], heralding the beginning of the [[1984 anti-Sikh riots|anti-Sikh riots]] in [[India]]; [[NASA]] and the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] intentionally [[Controlled Impact Demonstration|crash]] a remotely controlled [[Boeing 720]] aircraft to acquire data and test new technologies to aid passenger and crew survival; the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Los Angeles]], California; [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] releases its revolutionary [[Macintosh 128K|personal computer]]; the [[Sino-British Joint Declaration]] treaty is signed; the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers]] in the [[United Kingdom]] [[UK miners' strike (1984–85)|strike against]] the [[National Coal Board]] in an attempt to prevent colliery closures; [[Bhopal disaster|a methyl isocyanate leak]] kills at least 3,787 people in [[Bhopal]], India.]]
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==Events==

===January===
* [[January 1]] – The Bornean Sultanate of [[Brunei]] gains full [[independence]] from the [[United Kingdom]], having become a British protectorate in [[1888]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Country Papers: Brunei Darussalam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SH5PAAAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Asian and Pacific Development Centre |page=37}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN).<ref>{{cite book |title=Background notes, Brunei Darussalam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QVJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6 |year=1985 |publisher=U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division |pages=6}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Van Halen]] releases their sixth studio album ''[[1984 (Van Halen album)|1984]]'' (''MCMLXXXIV''), which debuts at number 2 on the [[Billboard 200]] albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the [[United States]].
* [[January 10]]
** The United States and the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] ([[Holy See]]) restore full diplomatic relations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Publications.article&articleid=44 |title=United States-Vatican Diplomatic Relations: The Past and The Future |work=The Ambassadors REVIEW |publisher=[[Council of American Ambassadors]] |date=Spring 2001 |quote=On January 10, 1984, when President Reagan announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See, he appointed William A. Wilson, who had been serving as his personal representative to the Pope, as the first US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. |access-date=November 17, 2011  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025151152/http://www.americanambassadors.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Publications.article&articleid=44 |archive-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref>
** The [[Victoria, Seychelles|Victoria]] Agreement is signed, institutionalising the [[Indian Ocean Commission]].
*[[January 24]] – [[Steve Jobs]] launches the [[Macintosh 128K|Macintosh]] personal computer in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clover |first=Juli  |date=January 24, 2020 |title=36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh |url=https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/24/macintosh-36th-anniversary/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=MacRumors |language=en}}</ref>
*[[January 27]] – American singer [[Michael Jackson]]'s hair caught on fire during the making of the [[Pepsi]] commercial.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Polk |first=Jeff Gottlieb |date=2013-05-09 |title=Pepsi fire left Michael Jackson with no hair, migraines: witness |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pepsi-fire--jackson-20130509-story.html |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

===February===
* [[February 3]]
** [[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.
** [[STS-41-B]]: [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']] is launched on the 10th [[Space Shuttle]] mission.
* [[February 7]] – [[Astronaut]]s [[Bruce McCandless II]] and [[Robert L. Stewart]] make the first untethered [[space walk]].
* [[February 8]]–[[February 19|19]] – The [[1984 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Sarajevo]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[February 13]] – [[Konstantin Chernenko]] succeeds the late [[Yuri Andropov]] as [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].
* [[February 22]] – [[President of Bangladesh]], [[H M Ershad]] upgrades South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renames it back to [[Moulvibazar District|Moulvibazar]].<ref name="zila">{{cite news |url=http://www.moulvibazar.com/zila/z_moul_intro.html |title=Zila |website=Moulvibazar.com |date=January 2016 |access-date=September 4, 2018}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] – [[TED (conference)]] is founded.
* [[February 29]] – Canadian prime minister [[Pierre Trudeau]] announces his retirement.

===March===

* [[March 5]] – [[Iran]] accuses [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] of using [[chemical weapon]]s; the [[United Nations]] condemns their use on [[March 30]].
* [[March 12]] – The [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers]] [[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike|strikes]] as tens of thousands of miners in the [[United Kingdom]] stop working in protest over colliery closures, starting the [[1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike|United Kingdom miners' strike]] that lasts a year.<ref>{{Cite news |title=1984: Miners strike over threatened pit closures |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/2540175.stm |website=BBC News|date=March 12, 1984 }}</ref>
* [[March 16]]
** The United States [[Central Intelligence Agency]] station chief in [[Beirut]], [[William Francis Buckley]], is kidnapped by the [[Islamic Jihad Organization]] and later dies in captivity.
** [[Gary Plauché]] shoots rapist son from [[Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport]]
* [[March 23]] – General [[Rahimuddin Khan]] becomes the first man in [[Pakistan]]'s history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of [[Sindh]].

===April===
* [[April 2]] – Indian Squadron Leader [[Rakesh Sharma]] is launched into space, aboard the ''[[Soyuz T-11]]''.
* [[April 12]] – [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
* [[April 13]] – India launches [[Operation Meghdoot]], bringing most of the disputed [[Siachen Glacier]] region of [[Kashmir]] under Indian control and triggering the [[Siachen conflict]] with [[Pakistan]].
* [[April 15]] – The first [[World Youth Day]] gathering is held in Rome, Italy.
[[File:Diretas ja 2.JPG|thumb|200px|{{lang|pt|[[Diretas Já]]|italic=no}} demonstration held in [[São Paulo]]]]
* [[April 16]] – More than one million people, led by [[Tancredo Neves]], occupy the streets of [[São Paulo]] to demand direct [[1989 Brazilian presidential election|presidential elections]] during the [[Brazilian military government]] of [[João Figueiredo]]. It is the largest protest during the {{lang|pt|[[Diretas Já]]|italic=no}} civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in [[1989]].
* [[April 17]] – [[Metropolitan Police]] officer [[Murder of Yvonne Fletcher|Yvonne Fletcher]] was fatally shot, during a demonstration outside the [[Embassy of Libya, London|Libyan embassy in London]], leading to an eleven-day siege of the embassy, and the severing of [[Libya–United Kingdom relations|diplomatic relations]] between the [[United Kingdom]] and [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Libya]].
* [[April 19]] – ''[[Advance Australia Fair]]'' is proclaimed as Australia's [[national anthem]], and green and gold as the [[National colours of Australia|national colours]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/anthem.cfm#history|title=Australian National Anthem – History|publisher=Australian Government|date=10 July 2007|access-date=1 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906030849/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/anthem.cfm|archive-date=6 September 2015}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – An X-class [[solar flare]] erupts on the Sun.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://astro.hopkinsschools.org/course_documents/the_sun/features_and_events/features_and_events.htm |title=Features and Events |website=astro.hopkinsschools.org |access-date=April 20, 2016 |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509024827/http://astro.hopkinsschools.org/course_documents/the_sun/features_and_events/features_and_events.htm }}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – Sultan [[Iskandar of Johor]] becomes [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] of [[Malaysia]], in succession to Sultan [[Ahmad Shah of Pahang|Ahmad Shah]], whose term ended the previous day.<ref>''The Europa Year Book: A World Survey'' (1984), page xiv</ref>

===May===
* [[May 2]] – South Africa, [[People's Republic of Mozambique|Mozambique]] and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the [[Cahora Bassa]] dam.
* [[May 5]]
** The Herreys' song "[[Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley]]" wins the [[1984 Eurovision Song Contest|Eurovision Song Contest]] for [[Sweden]] in [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Economist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZvqAAAAMAAJ |year=2005 |publisher=Economist Newspaper Limited |page=57}}</ref> It subsequently becomes a top-ten hit in five European countries.
** The [[Itaipu Dam]], on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, begins generating power; it is the [[List of largest hydroelectric power stations|largest hydroelectric dam in the world]] at the time.<ref>{{cite book |title=Energy Economist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCK0AAAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Financial Times Business Information Limited |page=12}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] – The [[Soviet Union]] announces that it will boycott the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in [[Los Angeles]].
* [[May 11]] – A [[transit of Earth from Mars]] takes place.
* [[May 12]] – The [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition|Louisiana World Exposition]], also known as the 1984 World's Fair, opens.
* [[May 13]] – [[Severomorsk Disaster]]: an explosion at the Soviets' Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets' Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
* [[May 14]] – The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
* [[May 23]] – A methane gas explosion at [[Abbeystead]] water treatment works in [[Lancashire]], UK, kills 16 people.  
* [[May 30]] – [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] beat [[A.S. Roma|Roma]] 5–2 after penalties in the final of the [[1984 European Cup Final|1984 European Cup]] football tournament.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Liversedge |first1=Stan |title=Liverpool: The Official Centenary History |publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group |location=London |year=1991 |isbn=0-600-57308-7 |page=195}}</ref>

===June===
* [[June 5]] – The Indian government begins [[Operation Blue Star]], the planned attack on the [[Golden Temple]] in [[Amritsar]].
* [[June 8]] – A F5 [[tornado]] nearly destroys the town of [[Barneveld, Wisconsin]], killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
* [[June 16]] – The Canadian entertainment company [[Cirque du Soleil]] is founded.
* [[June 19]] – 17-year-old [[Ricky Kasso]] murders Gary Lauwers in [[Northport, New York]], contributing to the [[Satanic panic]] association of [[heavy metal music]] and [[satanism]].
* [[June 22]] – [[Virgin Atlantic]] makes its inaugural flight.
* [[June 25]] – [[Hayim Association]] is founded by Prof. [[Rina Zaizov Marx]] and [[parents]] of [[children]] with [[cancer]] as [[paediatric]] [[oncology]] department in [[Israel]].
* [[June 27]] – [[France national football team|France]] beats [[Spain men's national football team|Spain]] 2–0 to win [[UEFA Euro 1984|Euro 84]].
* [[June 30]] – [[John Turner]] becomes the 17th [[Prime Minister of Canada]].

===July===
* [[July 1]]
** [[Liechtenstein]] becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the [[suffrage|right to vote]].
** Argentinian footballer [[Diego Maradona]] is sold by [[FC Barcelona]] (Spain) to [[S.S.C. Napoli]] (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/snapshot-maradona-is-toast-of-the-town-after-signing-for-napoli-9vt06tvqwmt |title=Snapshot: Maradona is toast of the town after signing for Napoli |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=2012-02-20 |access-date=2013-03-30}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – New Zealand Prime Minister [[Rob Muldoon]] calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader [[David Lange]].
[[File:1984-Newspaper-Vending-Machine.jpg|right|thumb|Newspaper vending machine featuring news of the [[1984 Summer Olympics]], which opened on July 28]]
* [[July 18]] – [[San Ysidro McDonald's massacre]]: 41-year-old James Huberty walks into a McDonald's in the [[San Ysidro, San Diego|San Ysidro]] district of [[San Diego]], resulting in 21 deaths, with Huberty being killed by a sniper 70 minutes after the ordeal begins.
* [[July 25]] – ''[[Salyut 7]]'': cosmonaut [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] becomes the first woman to perform a [[space walk]].
* [[July 28]]–[[August 12]] – The [[1984 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Los Angeles, California]].

===August===
* [[August 1]] – Australian banks are [[deregulated]].
* [[August 4]]
** The African republic [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] changes its name to [[Burkina Faso]].
** {{ship|Soviet submarine|K-278 Komsomolets}} reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.
* [[August 11]] – Barefoot South African runner [[Zola Budd]] and [[Mary Decker]] of the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/11/newsid_3561000/3561846.stm |title=1984: Zola Budd in race trip controversy |publisher=[[BBC]] |work=On This Day |access-date=2013-03-03 |date=1984-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123213239/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/11/newsid_3561000/3561846.stm |archive-date=January 23, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – [[John DeLorean]] is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing [[cocaine]].
* [[August 21]] – Half a million people in [[Manila]] demonstrate against the regime of [[Ferdinand Marcos]].
[[File:STS-41-D launch August 30, 1984.jpg|right|180px|thumb|The launch of shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' on [[STS-41-D]], its first mission]]
* [[August 30]] – [[STS-41-D]]: the [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] takes off on its maiden voyage.

===September===
* [[September 2]] – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the [[Milperra massacre]], a shootout between the rival motorcycle [[gang]]s [[Bandidos Motorcycle Club|Bandidos]] and [[Comanchero Motorcycle Club|Comanchero]]s in Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{cite book |author=David Dale |title=The 100 Things Everyone Needs to Know about Australia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMbiAAAAMAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-0-330-36054-8 |page=169}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] – The [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]], led by [[Brian Mulroney]], wins 211 seats in the [[House of Commons of Canada]], forming the largest [[majority government]] in Canadian history.
* [[September 5]]
** ''[[STS-41-D]]'': the [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] lands after its maiden voyage at [[Edwards Air Force Base]] in [[California]].
** Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish [[capital punishment]].
* [[September 7]] – An [[C23 tragedy|explosion]] on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off [[Gozo]] kills seven soldiers and policemen.
* [[September 14]]
** [[P. W. Botha]] is inaugurated as the first executive [[State President of South Africa]].
** [[Joe Kittinger]] begins his attempt to become the first person to fly a gas balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
* [[September 16]] – [[Edgar Reitz]]'s film series ''[[Heimat (film series)|Heimat]]'' begins release in Germany.
* [[September 17]] – [[Brian Mulroney]] is sworn in as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
* [[September 18]] – [[Joe Kittinger]] becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a [[hot air balloon]].
* [[September 20]] – [[Hezbollah]] [[1984 United States embassy annex bombing|car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex]] in Beirut, killing 24 people.
* [[September 26]] – The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return [[Hong Kong]] to China in [[1997]].
* [[September 29]] – In the early morning hours police in [[Sicily]] apprehend 366 people they suspect to be involved in the activities of [[Cosa Nostra]].

===October===
* [[October 4]] – [[Tim Macartney-Snape]] and [[Greg Mortimer]] become the first Australians to reach the summit of [[Mount Everest]].
* [[October 5]] – ''[[STS-41-G]]'': [[Marc Garneau]] becomes the first [[Canadian space program|Canadian in space]], aboard the [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].
* [[October 9]] – ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends]]'' by [[Britt Allcroft]] broadcasts its first two episodes in the United Kingdom.
* [[October 11]]
** Aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', astronaut [[Kathryn D. Sullivan]] becomes the first American woman to perform a [[space walk]].
** [[Aeroflot Flight 3352]] crashes at [[Omsk Airport]] into maintenance vehicles on the runway, killing 174 people on board and 4 on the ground.
* [[October 12]] – The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (PIRA) attempts to assassinate [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] and the British [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] in the [[Brighton hotel bombing]] with an explosive device planted nearly a month earlier in their conference hotel. The terror attack kills five people and injures 31.
* [[October 14]] – The [[Detroit Tigers]] defeat the [[San Diego Padres]] in game five of the [[1984 World Series]] to win the franchise's 4th championship.
* [[October 19]] – Polish [[secret police]] kidnap [[Jerzy Popiełuszko]], a Catholic priest who supports the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement. His body is found in a [[reservoir]] 11 days later on [[October 30]].
* [[October 20]] – [[Monterey Bay Aquarium]] is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.
* [[October 23]] – The world learns from moving [[BBC News]] television reports presented by [[Michael Buerk]] of the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia]], where thousands of people have already died of [[starvation]] due to a [[famine]], and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.<ref>{{cite news |title=1984: Extent of Ethiopia famine revealed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8315248.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=1984-10-23 |access-date=2013-01-22}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] – The [[European Economic Community]] makes £1.8&nbsp;million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite news |title=1984: Europe grants emergency aid for Ethiopia |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/25/newsid_2478000/2478431.stm |work=On This Day |date=October 25, 1984 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=2013-01-22}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] – The [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action film]] ''[[The Terminator]]'' premieres. It is the third film directed by [[James Cameron]], and stars [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], [[Linda Hamilton]], and [[Michael Biehn]].
* [[October 31]] – [[Assassination of Indira Gandhi]]: [[Prime Minister of India]] [[Indira Gandhi]] is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. [[1984 anti-Sikh riots|Anti-Sikh riots]] break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with the majority populations of Hindus. [[Rajiv Gandhi]] becomes Prime Minister of India.

===November===
* [[November 1]]–[[November 4|4]] – [[1984 anti-Sikh riots|Anti-Sikh mass murder]] takes place in [[Delhi]] and various parts of India following the [[Assassination of Indira Gandhi|assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi]].
* [[November 4]] – The [[Sandinista Front]] wins the [[Nicaragua]]n [[1984 Nicaraguan general election|general elections]].
* [[November 6]] – [[1984 United States presidential election]]: Republican President [[Ronald Reagan]] defeats Democratic former Vice President [[Walter F. Mondale]] with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since [[Richard Nixon]]'s 61% [[1972 United States presidential election|popular vote victory]] in [[1972]]. Reagan carries 49 states in the [[United States electoral college|electoral College]]; Mondale wins only his home state of [[Minnesota]] (by a mere 3,761 vote margin) and the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]].
[[File:ElectoralCollege1984.svg|thumbnail|Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush (49), and Blue denotes those won by Mondale/Ferraro (1+D.C.).]]
* [[November 9]]–[[November 11|11]] – The first [[The Hackers Conference|Hackers Conference]] is held.
* [[November 11]] – The [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition|Louisiana World Exposition]], also known as The 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", closes.
* [[November 12]] – [[Western Sahara conflict]]: [[Morocco]] leaves the [[Organization of African Unity]] in protest at the admission of [[Western Sahara]] as a member.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sahara-question.com/en/opinions/12-november-1984-when-morocco-withdrew-organization-african-unity |title=12 November 1984: When Morocco withdrew from the Organization of African Unity |website=Sahara Question |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[November 14]] – [[Zamboanga City]] mayor [[Cesar Climaco]], a prominent critic of the government of [[President of the Philippines|Philippine President]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]], is assassinated in his home city.
* [[November 19]] – A [[San Juanico disaster|series of explosions]] at the [[Pemex]] Petroleum Storage Facility at [[San Juan Ixhuatepec]], in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
* [[November 21]] – Start of [[Operation Moses]], the evacuation of refugee [[Beta Israel]] Ethiopian Jews from [[Sudan]] to [[Israel]] via Brussels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_moses.html|title=Operation Moses|work=History of War|access-date=2013-08-31}}</ref>
* [[November 25]]
** [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] (assembled by [[Bob Geldof]]) records the charity single "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" in London to raise money to combat the [[1983–85 famine in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia]]. It is released on [[December 3]].<ref>[http://liveaid.free.fr/pages/bandaid.html#uk Band Aid – Do They Know It's Christmas?] Retrieved November 17, 2011.</ref>
** 1984 Uruguayan presidential election: [[Julio María Sanguinetti]] is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of [[Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay|military dictatorship]].
* [[November 28]] – Over 250 years after their deaths, [[William Penn]] and his wife [[Hannah Callowhill Penn]] are made [[Honorary Citizens of the United States]].
* [[November 30]] – [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]], [[Kent and Dollar Farm massacres]]: the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] begin their first massacres of the [[Sinhalese people]], in North and East [[Sri Lanka]]. 127 are killed.

===December ===
[[File:Boeing 720 Controlled Impact Demonstration.jpg|thumb|[[Controlled Impact Demonstration]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** A peace agreement between [[Kenya]] and [[Somalia]] is signed in the [[Egypt]]ian capital [[Cairo]]. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries begin to improve.
** The [[LRT Line 1 (Metro Manila)|Light Rail Transit]] in [[Manila]] begins service with the opening of its southern segment, as the first rapid transit service in Southeast Asia.
* [[December 2]] – [[1984 Australian federal election]]: [[Bob Hawke]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Hawke government|government]] is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[Andrew Peacock]].
* [[December 3]] – [[Bhopal disaster]]: A [[methyl isocyanate]] leak from a [[Union Carbide]] pesticide plant in [[Bhopal]], Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
* [[December 4]]
** [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]], [[1984 Mannar massacre]]: [[Sri Lankan Army]] soldiers kill over 200 civilians in the town of [[Mannar, Sri Lanka|Mannar]].
** [[Hezbollah]] militants [[Aircraft hijacking|hijack]] a [[Kuwait Airlines]] plane and kill 4 passengers.
* [[December 19]] – The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom sign the [[Sino-British Joint Declaration]] on the future of Hong Kong.
* [[December 20]] – [[Disappearance and death of Jonelle Matthews|Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews]] from [[Greeley, Colorado]].  Her remains were discovered on 23 July 2019, located  about {{convert|15|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of Jonelle's home.<ref>{{cite web |title=Remains Found in Weld County Identified |publisher=Greeley Police Department |author=Detective Robert Cash |date=July 25, 2019 |url=https://greeleypd.com/recovery-of-jonelle-matthews/ |access-date=July 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Remains of Jonelle Matthews dug up by work crew 34 years after she vanished, Greeley police say—Then 12-year-old disappeared after middle school Christmas concert |author=Kieran Nicholson |publisher=The Denver Post |date=July 25, 2019 |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/25/jonelle-matthews-remains-found-greeley-police/ |access-date=July 27, 2019}}</ref> The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head".<ref name="Pietsch">{{cite news |title=Man Charged With Murder in 1984 Killing of Colorado Girl Taken From Home |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Bryan Pietsch |date=October 13, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/steven-pankey-murder-kidnapping.html |access-date=24 October 2020}}</ref>
* [[December 22]]
** Four [[African-American]] youths ([[Barry Allen (shooting victim)|Barry Allen]], [[Troy Canty]], [[James Ramseur]], and [[Darrell Cabey]]) board an express train in the [[The Bronx|Bronx]] borough of New York City. They demand five dollars from [[Bernhard Goetz]], who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
** In [[Malta]], Prime Minister [[Dom Mintoff]] resigns.
* [[December 28]] – A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[cruise missile]] plunges into [[Lake Inari]] in Finnish [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]], known as the [[Lake Inari missile incident]]. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.

===Date unknown===
* [[1983–85 famine in Ethiopia]] intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
* [[Crack cocaine]], a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the [[crack epidemic (United States)|crack epidemic]].
* The [[Chrysler Corporation]] introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as "[[minivan]]s". They are branded as the [[Chrysler Town & Country]], [[Dodge Caravan]], and [[Plymouth Voyager]].

== Births and deaths ==
{{Main|Category:1984 births|Deaths in 1984}}

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Carlo Rubbia]], [[Simon van der Meer]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Robert Bruce Merrifield]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Niels Kaj Jerne]], [[Georges J. F. Köhler]], [[César Milstein]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Jaroslav Seifert]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – Bishop [[Desmond Tutu|Desmond Mpilo Tutu]]
* [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] – [[Richard Stone]]

==References==
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