Events Date 1984 November | History by KabAstro

Assassination

Nov 3 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

Music History

Nov 4 Funk-rocker Prince opens his "Purple Rain" tour featuring his new band 'The Revolution' with the 1st of seven shows at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan

Nov 4 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%

Reagan Defeats Mondale

Nov 6 Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan re-elected President of the United States in a landslide; wins 49 states, and defeats Democrat Walter Mondale

42nd Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale

Nov 6 Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
Nov 7 STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
Nov 8 14th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery (STS 51-A) launches

Wasim Akram

Nov 8 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test for Pakistan

Nov 8 NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit aboard STS 51-A
Nov 9 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B

Holmes vs. Smith

Nov 9 Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

Nov 9 Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 - Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
Nov 9 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Nov 9 Wes Craven's horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" premieres in the US

Nov 10 Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
Nov 10 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Hollywood Park; winners: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again
Nov 10 Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
Nov 11 "Three Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances
Nov 12 NBC premiere of "Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story", fact based telepic of actress Saldana's near fatal attack and its aftermath

We All Stand Together

Nov 12 Paul McCartney releases single "We All Stand Together"

Nov 12 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
Nov 13 David Levy finds his first comet

Sandberg NL MVP

Nov 13 Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award

Nov 14 Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
Nov 14 NASA launches NATO-3D
Nov 14 Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
Nov 15 "Emergency" 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)

Event of Interest

Nov 15 Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela is captured in Spain while meeting to expand Cali Cartel business in Europe, but is later acquitted and returned to Colombia

Nov 16 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
Nov 16 Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record

Imran Khan Debut

Nov 16 Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket

Cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan

Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him

Nov 16 John Lennon's 'Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him' released posthumously

Nov 17 Golden State Warrior Purvis Short scores career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
Nov 17 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
Nov 18 "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
Nov 18 34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
Nov 18 Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
Nov 18 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17; Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game
Nov 18 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
Nov 18 NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery "Fatal Vision", based on Joe McGinnis' novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children
Nov 18 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
Nov 18 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
Nov 19 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die

Gooden Youngest Rookie

Nov 19 NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year

Nov 20 McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Nov 20 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
Nov 20 SETI Institute (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) is founded.

Fred Roger's Sweater

Nov 22 Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers, Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution

A Christmas Carol

Nov 23 "A Christmas Carol" directed by Clive Donner starring George C. Scott premieres in the UK

The Hail Mary Pass

Nov 23 Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45

Nov 23 Limited-over international cricket debut for Wasim Akram for Pakistan, v New Zealand

Boon and Holland Debut

Nov 23 Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 & Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)

Nov 23 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Nov 25 Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
Nov 25 William Schroeder is second person to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart