1984 Calendar
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1984 Historical Event(s)
- January 1, 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
- January 10, 1984 – The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 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.
- May 6, 1984 – 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
- June 8, 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
- September 5, 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- September 12, 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 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 1, 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.
Who Were Born On 1984?
- January 8, 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
- January 11, 1984 – Kevin Boss, American football player
- February 5, 1984 – Nate Salley, American football player
- February 20, 1984 – Ramzee Robinson, American football player
- June 22, 1984 – Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
- July 10, 1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
- October 10, 1984 – Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
- December 5, 1984 – Chris Solinsky, American distance runner
- December 9, 1984 – Leon Hall, American football player
- December 13, 1984 – Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish swimmer