1984

1984 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1984; MCMLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2737
Armenian calendar	1433; ԹՎ ՌՆԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6734
Bahá'í calendar	140–141
Balinese saka calendar	1905–1906
Bengali calendar	1391
Berber calendar	2934
British Regnal year	32 Eliz. 2 – 33 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2528
Burmese calendar	1346
Byzantine calendar	7492–7493
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig); 4680 or 4620; — to —; 甲子年 (Wood Rat); 4681 or 4621
Coptic calendar	1700–1701
Discordian calendar	3150
Ethiopian calendar	1976–1977
Hebrew calendar	5744–5745
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2040–2041
- Shaka Samvat	1905–1906
- Kali Yuga	5084–5085
Holocene calendar	11984
Igbo calendar	984–985
Iranian calendar	1362–1363
Islamic calendar	1404–1405
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 59; (昭和５９年)
Javanese calendar	1916–1917
Juche calendar	73
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4317
Minguo calendar	ROC 73; 民國73年
Nanakshahi calendar	516
Thai solar calendar	2527
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年; (female Water-Pig); 2110 or 1729 or 957; — to —; 阳木鼠年; (male Wood-Rat); 2111 or 1730 or 958
Unix time	441763200 – 473385599

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1981 1982 1983 – 1984 – 1985 1986 1987

1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.

Events[change | change source]

January - June[change | change source]

January 4 – Rapeye series by Paramount Pictures.
January 27 – Michael Jackson's hair catches on fire during the filming of the Pepsi commercial.
March 22 – People said the teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California were abusing the children in the school. The police found out that this was not true.
March 23 – Sarah Tisdall, who told The Guardian newspaper that cruise missiles were coming to Britain, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
March 24 – The Wran Government was chosen in NSW for a 4th term.
March 28 - The 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak causes many deaths in North and South Carolina.
April 4 – President Ronald Reagan said that no one should use chemical weapons.
April 12 – Four young Palestinians took an Israeli bus hostage. Israeli special forces got onto the bus and freed the hostages. They killed 1 hostage and two of the hijackers. Two other hijackers were captured and killed by Ehud Yatom. He crushed their skulls while they were tied up. Shin Bet chief Abraham Shalom told them to do this. It caused a major scandal (Kav 300 affair).
April 13 – India started Operation Meghdoot. They took control of most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir.
April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead by a hidden gunman outside the Libyan Embassy in London during the event known as the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege.
April 19 – Advance Australia Fair was named as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 – The end of Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah's as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
April 26- Her Highness The Queen Of North Last Heir Of The Great Stark Lineage Mellissa Elkin The Indestructible was born.
April 26 – Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, the Sultan of Johor becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
May 2 – The Liverpool Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 8 – The Soviet Union announced that it was not going to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 – Denis Lortie killed three people who worked for the government in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 19 – Game show contestant Michael Larson won $100,000 on the game show Press Your Luck. Later, people found out that he won the money by mainly using only two squares of the Press Your Luck "Big Board."
May 22 – Helen Branch was declared legally dead (she disappeared 1977).
May 27 – Fluminense won the Brazilian soccer league, against C.R. Vasco da Gama.
June 5 – The Indian government began Operation Blue Star. It was a planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 – Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine. They killed about 10,000 people.
June 8 – A deadly tornado almost destroyed Barneveld, Wisconsin. It killed nine people, injured almost 200 people, and caused over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 8 – The movie Ghostbusters and Gremlins comes out in theaters. It becomes a summer blockbuster hit. The song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. became a Top 40 hit.

July - December[change | change source]

October 26 - The Terminator is first shown in movie theaters.
October 26 - The 1984-85 NBA regular season begins.
November 4 – Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in the largest landslide in United States History during the presidential elections.
November 29 - West Hollywood, California, a predominantly gay community, was incorporated as a city.