In history, year 1984 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1984.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 22 january | Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, during Super Bowl XVIII with its groundbreaking '1984' television commercial. |
| 28 january | Tropical Storm Domoina made land fall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region. |
| 29 january | The prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced that he is resigning from his post. |
| 29 february | The Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced that he is resigning from his post. |
| 16 march | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, waskidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. |
| 22 march | In what would be the longest and costliest criminal trial inUnited States history, teachers at the McMartin preschool in ManhattanBeach, California, were falsely charged with satanic ritual abuse of schoo lchildren. |
| 02 april | Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to belaunched into space. |
| 13 april | Indian forces launched Operation Meghdoot, a preemptive attack on the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir, triggering a military conflict with Pakistan. |
| 17 april | British police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London's St James's Square, resulting in an eleven-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two nations. |
| 19 april | Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick 'Advance Australia Fair', a patriotic song that was first performed in 1878,officially replaced 'God Save the Queen' as Australia's national anthem. |
| 24 april | AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. |
| 06 may | Pope John Paul II canonized 103 of the Korean Martyrs, who werethe subjects of religious persecution against Christians in 19th-centuryKorea. |
| 08 may | Thames barrier was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on May 8, 1984. It was build to prevent the floodplain by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea. Construction cost of barrier was around £534 million with an additional £100 million for river defences. |
| 08 may | The Soviet Union announced the boycott of the Summer Olympicsin Los Angeles, citing security concerns and stated that 'chauvinisticsentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria [were] being whipped up in theUnited States'. |
| 12 may | The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, themed on The World of Rivers-Fresh Waters as a Source of Life”, was opened on May 12, 1984 in New Orleans, United States and ended on November 11, 1984. It was declared bankrupt during its run due to low attendance |
| 23 may | Bachendri Pal conquered the summit of Mt. Everest. She is the first Indian women and 5th in the world who achieved this feat. She was an employee in TATA Steel & co. in Jamshedpur. |
| 06 june | Tetris was released in USSR. It was one of the bestselling video games of all times. It gained the worldwide fame. It was originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was a Russian tile matching game. |
| 18 july | A gunman massacred 21 people and injured 15 others at aMcDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro section of San Diego,California. |
| 23 july | Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America,resigned in scandal after Penthouse magazine published nude photos ofher that were taken two years prior. |
| 01 august | Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of aman, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. |
| 04 august | Exactly a year after he came to power in the Republic of UpperVolta through a military coup, President Thomas Sankara changed its nameto Burkina Faso. |
| 29 august | Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminatedsalad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and singlelargest bioterrorist attack in United States history. |
| 30 august | Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its maiden voyage. |
| 04 september | The Progressive Conservative Party led by Brian Mulroney wonthe largest majority government by total number of seats in Canadianhistory during the federal election. |
| 20 september | The Cosby Show, which became one of three U.S. shows to have thehighest ratings five years in a row, aired its its pilot episode. |
| 11 october | Kathy Sullivan sets an example by being the first American woman to walk in space during a Test for orbital refueling on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-G. |
| 12 october | The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at theGrand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinateBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her cabinet. |
| 16 october | The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history. |
| 25 october | The virus that causes non-A and non-B hepatitis has been identified by researchers. |
| 26 october | ‘Baby Fae’, a two week old infant, was given a first of its kind heart transplant, with her heart being replaced by that of a young baboon. Nevertheless, she only lived for 20 days. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 October | Beck Bennett / Actor / United States of America |
| 03 August | Yasin Avcı / Footballer / Turkey |
| 04 December | Marco Giambruno / Footballer / Italy |
| 05 November | Nikolay Zherdev / Ice Hockey Player / Russia |
| 08 September | Vitaly Petrov / Racing Car Driver / Russia |
| 08 January | Stephen Simpson / Racing Car Driver / South Africa |
| 12 November | Benjamin Okolski / Figure Skater / United States of America |
| 14 April | Tyler Thigpen / Footballer / United States of America |
| 15 June | Tim Lincecum / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 16 May | Darío Cvitanich / Footballer / Argentina |
| 18 November | Johnny Christ / Bass Player / United States of America |
| 19 September | Ángel Reyna / Footballer / Mexico |
| 20 February | Trevor Noah / Actor / South Africa |
| 20 June | Dennis Malura / Footballer / Germany |
| 24 October | Kaela Kimura / Singer / Japan |
| 26 October | Adriano Correia / Footballer / Brazil |
| 26 March | Marco Stier / Footballer / Germany |
| 30 May | Jordan Palmer / Footballer / United States of America |
| 31 August | Matti Breschel / Cyclist / Denmark |
| 31 May | Nate Robinson / Basketball Player / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 05 January | Chakravarthi Rangarajan / Economist / India |
| 04 February | Sandeep Acharya / Singer / India |
| 02 April | Deep Sidhu / Actor / India |
| 29 February | Adam Sinclair / Hockey Player / India |
| 29 February | Janvi Chheda / Actress / India |
| 19 December | Ankita Lokhande / Actress / India |
| 19 March | Tanushree Dutta / Actress / India |
| 04 June | Priyamani / Actress / India |
| 14 December | Divyanka Tripathi / Actress / India |
| 14 December | Rana Daggubati / Actor / India |
| 13 July | Urvashi Sharma / Actress / India |
| 10 January | Kalki Koechlin / Actress / India |
| 24 March | Adrian D'Souza / Hockey Player / India |
| 04 February | Sandeep Acharya / Singer / India |
| 05 March | Aarti Agarwal / Actress / India |
| 16 July | Surveen Chawla / Actress / India |
| 03 August | Sunil Chhetri / Footballer / India |
| 14 September | Ayushman Khurana / Actor / India |
| 19 January | Karun Chandhok / Racing Car Driver / India |
| 18 October | Freida Pinto / Actress / India |