42 events found for 1984
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka,…
"We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while…
An infamous brawl takes place at the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack…
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle…
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and…
Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score…
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend…
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space…
Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb…