1984

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Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar).

Contents

[edit] Events of 1984

[edit] January

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February
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[edit] July

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[edit] August

August
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The launch of Shuttle Discovery on STS-41-D, its first mission.
The launch of Shuttle Discovery on STS-41-D, its first mission.

[edit] September

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[edit] October

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[edit] November

November
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[edit] December

December
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  • Famine in Ethiopia begins and kills a million people by the end of 1984. (1984 Famine in Ethiopia).
  • Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spreads across the United States in what came to be known as the Crack Epidemic.
  • A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia was signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo in December 1984. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounced its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
  • Chatham Dockyard in Medway, England closed after being used a shipbuilding yard for over 400 years since the reign of King Henry VIII.
  • Brothels legalized in Victoria.

[edit] Ongoing

1984 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1984
MCMLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita 2737
Armenian calendar 1433
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԳ
Bahá'í calendar 140 – 141
Berber calendar 2934
Buddhist calendar 2528
Burmese calendar 1346
Chinese calendar 4620/4680-11-29
(癸亥年十一月廿九日)
— to —
4621/4681-11-10
(甲子年十一月初十日)
Coptic calendar 1700 – 1701
Ethiopian calendar 1976 – 1977
Hebrew calendar 57445745
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2039 – 2040
 - Shaka Samvat 1906 – 1907
 - Kali Yuga 5085 – 5086
Holocene calendar 11984
Iranian calendar 1362 – 1363
Islamic calendar 1404 – 1405
Japanese calendar Shōwa 59
(昭和59年)
Korean calendar 4317
Thai solar calendar 2527
Unix time 441763200 – 473385599
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[edit] Births

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

[edit] October-December

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-March

[edit] April-June

[edit] July-September

[edit] October-December

[edit] Unknown dates

  • (none)

[edit] Ship events

[edit] Nobel prizes

[edit] Templeton Prize

  • Rev. Michael Bourdeaux, founder of the Keston Institute

[edit] Notes

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