Historical Events in 1984 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 722

• Jul 31 US men's gymnastics team score emotional upset win over world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
• Jul 31 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
• Aug 2 Jeff Blatnick becomes first American to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics, Blatnick was in remission for Hodgkin’s disease

• Aug 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 3 17-year-old Australian swimmer Jon Sieben stages a withering finish to upset hot favourite Michael Gross of West Germany in 200m butterfly at Los Angeles Olympics, world record (1:57.04)
• Aug 3 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
• Aug 3 Mary Lou Retton scores 10 for final vault to win the individual all-round competition in Los Angeles and become first American woman to win an Olympic gymnastics medal
• Aug 3 Mexicans Ernesto Canto and Raúl González take the gold and silver medals in the 20k walk at the Los Angeles Olympics

• Aug 4 Americans Al Joyner and Mike Conley take the gold and silver medals in the men's triple jump at the Los Angeles Olympics

• Aug 4 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso (National Day)

• Aug 5 American super-hurdler Edwin Moses wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, his 105th consecutive race victory
• Aug 5 Evelyn Ashford runs an Olympic 100m record time of 10.97 to beat American teammate Alice Brown in the LA Games final
• Aug 5 The rowing competition at the LA Olympics concludes with Romania dominant in the women's section winning 5 of 6 gold medals; US wins the eights from Romania
• Aug 5 Toronto designated hitter Cliff Johnson hits MLB record 19th career pinch-hit HR in Blue Jays 4-3 win over Baltimore Orioles
• Aug 6 After Americans Roger Kingdom & Greg Foster both equal the Olympic record in 110m hurdles semi's in Los Angeles, Kingdom beats Foster in the final in a new Games record 13.20 seconds
• Aug 6 American athlete Carl Lewis wins long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at Los Angeles Olympics
• Aug 7 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC
• Aug 7 Harmonica Frank [Floyd], American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player dies of lung cancer and diabetes complications at 75
• Aug 7 Japan beats US, 6-3 in the final of the Los Angeles Olympic baseball demonstration event
• Aug 7 The US collects its first Olympic gold medal in women's basketball history with a 85-55 win over South Korea in the final at the LA Games
• Aug 8 Carl Lewis wins 3rd gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympics joining Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson in an American sweep of the 200m

• Aug 8 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
• Aug 8 Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco becomes the first female Olympic champion of a Muslim nation, and the first of her country in the 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics
• Aug 9 Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles; later recognised as a world record
• Aug 9 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
• Aug 9 Valerie Brisco-Hooks beats fellow American Florence Griffith to win the 200m gold at the LA Olympics; completes the 200-400m double
• Aug 10 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3,000m at the LA Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th; Maricica Puică of Romania wins
• Aug 10 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
• Aug 10 Sweden's Agneta Andersson takes out the women's canoeing 500m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with wins in the K-1 and K-2 (with Anna Olsson) events

• Aug 11 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France

• Aug 11 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83)

• Aug 11 Future 4-weight world boxing champion Pernell Whitaker wins the lightweight gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
• Aug 11 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins his 3rd canoeing gold medal of the LA Olympics taking out the K-4 1000 a day after victories in the K-1 500 & K-2 500
• Aug 11 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
• Aug 11 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
• Aug 12 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
• Aug 12 Carlos Lopes of Portugal wins the men's marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2:09:21, an Olympic record that stands for 24 years

• Aug 13 Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
• Aug 14 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
• Aug 14 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
• Aug 15 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
• Aug 16 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
• Aug 16 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
• Aug 16 NASA launches Ampte
• Aug 16 Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened

• Aug 18 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
• Aug 19 Republican convention in Dallas, Texas nominates incumbent Ronald Reagan for President
• Aug 22 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
• Aug 22 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced

• Aug 22 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush
• Aug 22 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament

• Aug 25 French airship capsizes
• Aug 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 26 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
• Aug 26 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
• Aug 27 US President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project
• Aug 27 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 27 War Against Indiscipline is launched by the Buhari regime in Nigeria
• Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Aug 30 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 launches for a 6-day excursion
• Aug 30 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
• Aug 30 Sotheby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
• Aug 31 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

• Sep 1 Middlesex beats Kent off the last ball of the Nat West Trophy cricket final in London; John Emburey hits Kent seamer Richard Ellison to square leg for 4 for the winning runs

• Sep 3 28-year-old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery

• Sep 3 MLB St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks his own NL record for saves in a season with his 45th in 7-3 win over NY Mets; record broken in 1991, by Lee Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals
• Sep 3 South Africa adopts constitution

• Sep 5 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 lands at Edwards AFB

• Sep 6 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
• Sep 6 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
• Sep 7 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
• Sep 8 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41G mission
• Sep 10 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma

• Sep 10 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)

• Sep 12 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
• Sep 12 NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251

• Sep 13 Shimon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud
• Sep 13 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
• Sep 15 Morocco Showcase opens
• Sep 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR

• Sep 17 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games

• Sep 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 18 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
• Sep 18 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)

• Sep 19 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

• Sep 20 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
• Sep 20 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
• Sep 21 NASA launches Galaxy-C
• Sep 23 36th Emmy Awards: "Hill Street Blues"; "Cheers": John Ritter & Tyne Daly win

• Sep 24 Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title

• Sep 25 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
• Sep 25 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations

• Sep 26 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 26 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
• Sep 26 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
• Sep 26 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
• Sep 26 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
• Sep 26 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
• Sep 28 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
• Sep 28 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10

• Sep 29 "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
• Sep 29 "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
• Sep 29 "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
• Sep 29 "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66
• Sep 29 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince Rogers Nelson and Revolution peaks at #1
• Sep 29 "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
• Sep 29 "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
• Sep 29 "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
• Sep 29 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84

• Sep 30 Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6
• Sep 30 California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
• Sep 30 California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
• Sep 30 CBS' premiere of "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Landsbury

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

• 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

• Oct 7 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant

• 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)

• Oct 11 NASA launches space vehicle S-208

• 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 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

• 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

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

• 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
• 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

• 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)
• Oct 29 NY Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30)
• Oct 30 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
• Oct 31 Howard Goodall & Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man" premieres in London

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