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1984 Calendar
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1984 Historical Event(s)
- February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- March 14, 1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- June 8, 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- August 30, 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
- September 20, 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- September 21, 1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
- October 5, 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- November 2, 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- December 20, 1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
Who Were Born On 1984?
- March 4, 1984 – Phillip Inzerillo, American musician
- April 27, 1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- July 2, 1984 – Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
- July 27, 1984 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
- September 25, 1984 – Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
- October 2, 1984 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
- November 18, 1984 – Johnny Christ, American bassist (Avenged Sevenfold)
- November 30, 1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
- December 4, 1984 – Brooke Adams, American model
- December 14, 1984 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer