The Year 1984 From The People History

What Events Happened in 1984

• Indian Prime minister Indria Ghandi assassinated

• Widespread Famine in Ethiopia after political conflict with charities believing as many as 10 million people are facing starvation

• Hundreds die on December 3rd from the effects of toxic gases which leak from the Bhopal Union Carbide Factory

• The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997

• A Man shoots 20 dead and wounds 16 in McDonalds Restaurant on July 18th in San Ysidro California

• A giant gas works explosion on the outskirts of Mexico City left 500 dead

• Truck containing 500 kg of high explosives destroys the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 12 people.

• Gang warfare in Sydney, Australia during the "Milperra Massacre" leaves seven dead.

• The Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles

• USSR And soviet block boycotts the Olympic games in retaliation for Western Boycott in 1980

• A Union Carbide Pesticide plant in Bhopal India leaks the lethal gas killing more than 3,500

• Twelve month long strike by coal miners begins in British coal industry, during the strike pickets and police clash multiple times at pits and collieries around the country.

• WPC Yvonne Fletcher a London police officer is shot and killed by Libyan Diplomat

• English pound notes are to be taken out of circulation

• 700 year old wing of York Minster destroyed by fire

• By the year end more than 70 US Banks fail

• IRA Bomb goes off in Grand Hotel Brighton during Conservative Conference

• Virgin Atlantic Inaugural flight .

• Indian army troops sent on June 6th into the Sikh rebel held Golden Temple compound in Amritsar

• PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City explosions ignites a major fire and kills more than 500

• Ethiopian famine begins

• Typhoon Ike strikes Philippines leaving over 3,000 fatalities.

• ( Subway Vigilante )Bernhard Goetz shoots four black youths on a Manhattan subway

• Brunei Gains Independence From Great Britain

• The UK replaces GCE O-Level's and CSE's and replaces them with GCSE's

• The Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, United States

• The Winter Olympic Games are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

Technology

• Aids Virus identified by French Immunologist
• AT&T Broken Up
• The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
• Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players
• Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk
• The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage
• First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered using jet back Packs
• Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime

Popular Culture 1984

• The MTV Video Music Awards Started

• 36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia
• Michael Jackson wins unprecedented acclaim for his Album Thriller and sales over 37 million copies

Popular Films

• Ghostbusters
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Gremlins
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Terms of Endearment
• The Karate Kid
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Police Academy
• Romancing the Stone
• Splash
• The Terminator
• Amadeus
• The Killing Fields
• A Passage To India

Check out our Television Programmes From The 80s whenever possible we have included a trailer to jog your memory. Series trailers and more information are found on the decade they started.

Popular Musicians

• Phil Collins
• Alison Moyet
• Billy Joel
• Tina Turner with " What's Love got to do with it "
• David Bowie
• Wham! with " Wake Me up Before You Go "
• Billy Ocean
• UB40
• Stevie Wonder with " I Just Called to say I love You "
• Bruce Springsteen
• Kenny Rogers
• Bananarama
• Duran Duran with " The Reflex "
• Ultravox
• Cars

Popular TV Programmes

• Magnum, P.I.
• Dynasty
• Entertainment Tonight
• Falcon Crest
• Hill Street Blues
• Cagney and Lacey
• Cheers
• Fame
• Knight Rider
• The A-Team
• Jeopardy!