Events Date 1984 October | History by KabAstro

Oct 1 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus

Sports History

Oct 1 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball; he has a 4 year tenure

Olympic Executive and Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth

Oct 2 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
Oct 2 Due to a strike by MLB umpires, first 4 NLCS games played with replacement umpires; Game 1: Chicago Cubs beat SD Padres, 13-0
Oct 2 Papa John's Pizza is founded by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville, Indiana; it would go on to become the fourth-largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States
Oct 2 Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage
Oct 3 US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills

STS-41-G Launches

Oct 5 13th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41G): Challenger 6 launches with Marc Garneau, the first Canadian in space, on board

Oct 7 MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
Oct 7 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant

Sports History

Oct 7 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

NFL Legend and Civil Rights Activist Jim Brown

Oct 8 18th Country Music Association Awards: Alabama wins
Oct 8 NBC's premiere of TV made "The Burning Bed", based on Francine Hughes
Oct 9 Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
Oct 11 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)

Event of Interest

Oct 11 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC

Oct 11 NASA launches space vehicle S-208

Event of Interest

Oct 11 US Vice Presidential candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George H. W. Bush (R), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Congresswoman and 1st Female Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro

Event of Interest

Oct 12 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Oct 13 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
Oct 13 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
Oct 13 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
Oct 14 Barbara Damashek's musical "Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater, NYC, after 24 performances
Oct 14 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat San Diego Padres, 8-4 at Tiger Stadium to clinch series, 4 games to 1; MVP: Detroit shortstop Alan Trammell
Oct 14 NFL Cleveland Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24-20 loss to visiting NY Jets
Oct 15 Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
Oct 15 Dutch Centrum Party expels 2nd Member of parliament Hans Janmaat due to fraud

Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 16 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

Anglican Archbishop and Activist Desmond Tutu

Oct 17 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
Oct 18 Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51A mission
Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Oct 20 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed

NHL Record

Oct 20 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick, in his 6th career 4-goal game, an 8-3 win over visiting Los Angeles Kings

Oct 20 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.

F1 World Champion

Oct 21 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time Formula 1 World Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost

Oct 21 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
Oct 21 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
Oct 22 Future Pro Football HOF quarterback Ken Stabler retires after 17 seasons in the NFL with Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints

Music History

Oct 22 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack

Oct 23 Chicago Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
Oct 23 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
Oct 23 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
Oct 24 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
Oct 24 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
Oct 25 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
Oct 25 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
Oct 25 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 25 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption

The Terminator

Oct 26 "The Terminator" directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn is released in the US

Actor, Body Builder and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger

Oct 26 Stephanie Fae Beauclair ("Baby Fae") gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
Oct 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Oct 27 Washington State University's running back Rueben Mayes sets collegiate football record of 357 yards rushing in one game (at Oregon)