What Events Happened in 1984
- Indian Prime minister
Indria
Ghandi assassinated
- A
Union Carbide
Pesticide plant in Bhopal India
leaks the
lethal gas
killing more than 3,500
- Indian army troops sent into
the Sikh rebel held Golden Temple compound in
Amritsar
Ethiopia:
Widespread Famine in
Ethiopia after political conflict with
charities believing as many as 10 million people are
facing starvation
Hong Kong: The
UK and China agree
Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
U.S.
- A
Man shoots 20
dead and wounds 16 in McDonalds
Restaurant
on July 18th in
San Ysidro California
- The
Olympic Games
are held in
Los Angeles
- By the year end more than
70 US
Banks fail
- ( Subway Vigilante )Bernhard
Goetz shoots four black youths on a Manhattan
subway
Mexico
- A giant gas works explosion
on the outskirts of Mexico City left 500 dead
- PEMEX petroleum storage
facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City
explosions ignites a major fire and kills more
than 500
Australia: Gang warfare in Sydney, Australia
during the "Milperra Massacre" leaves seven dead.
Russia:
USSR And soviet
block boycotts the Olympic games in
retaliation for Western Boycott in 1980
UK
-
Twelve month
long strike by coal miners begins
in British coal industry, during the strike
pickets and police clash multiple times at pits
and collieries around the country.
- WPC Yvonne Fletcher a London
police officer is shot and killed by Libyan
Diplomat
- English pound notes are to
be taken out of circulation
- 700 year old wing of York
Minster destroyed by fire UK
-
IRA Bomb
goes off in
Grand Hotel
Brighton during Conservative
Conference
-
Virgin Atlantic
Inaugural flight .
- The UK replaces GCE
O-Level's and CSE's and replaces them with GCSE's
Philippines: Typhoon Ike strikes Philippines
leaving over 3,000 fatalities.
Brunei: Brunei Gains Independence From Great
Britain
Yugoslavia: The Winter Olympic Games are held
in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
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