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1984 Calendar

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•  January 27, 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
•  January 28, 1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
•  February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  May 8, 1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
•  August 15, 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
•  September 26, 1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
•  October 16, 1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
•  November 2, 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
•  November 25, 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
•  December 4, 1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.

•  January 10, 1984 – Nando Rafael, Angolan-German footballer
•  February 5, 1984 – Nate Salley, American football player
•  February 17, 1984 – AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
•  March 29, 1984 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian vegetable vendor and activist (d. 2011)
•  April 30, 1984 – Lee Roache, British footballer
•  May 27, 1984 – Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
•  July 7, 1984 – Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
•  July 25, 1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
•  September 22, 1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
•  October 1, 1984 – Matt Cain, American baseball player