1984 Calendar
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1984 Historical Event(s)
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.
February 2, 1984
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
June 6, 1984
– Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
July 1, 1984
– The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
July 18, 1984
– McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
July 23, 1984
– Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
September 14, 1984
– Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
November 2, 1984
– Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
November 19, 1984
– San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
December 22, 1984
– Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.
Who Were Born On 1984?
January 18, 1984
– Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer
January 31, 1984
– Vernon Davis, American football player
February 22, 1984
– Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
March 26, 1984
– Jimmy Howard, American ice hockey player
June 11, 1984
– Andy Lee, Irish boxer
July 5, 1984
– Marion Trott, German skeleton racer
September 27, 1984
– Chris Nelson, Scottish Hockey player
November 14, 1984
– Courtney Johns, Australian rules footballer
November 27, 1984
– Domata Peko, American football player
December 19, 1984
– Ian Kennedy, American baseball player