Britain and the World 1984

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	1984
Jan9	FTSE index exceeded 800
Jan10	US and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time in 100 years
Jan20	The actor Johnny Weismuller dies
Jan21	Britain's first test-tube triplets, a girl and two boys, were born to a couple in London.
Feb8	14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Some 1,579 athletes from 50 nations participated. The Olympic facilities have since been all but destroyed by the war in Bosnia.
Feb9	Soviet leader Yuri Andropov died. A former KGB chief, he succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in late 1982 and was in power for less than 15 months.
Feb12	Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics recieving all perfect scores for quality & the gold medal
Feb13	Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
Feb29	Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
Mar5	Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons - UN condemn the use on March 30
Mar12	National Union of Mineworkers in England begin a 51 week strike that led to the eclipse of the NUM in particular and the TUC in general. The strike was greatly accerbated by the political agenda of the Thatcher government.
Mar14	Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and three others are injured in a gun attack
Mar15	Jenny Pitman becomes the first female trainer to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup with Burrough Hill Lad
Mar21	Brenda Dean becomes the first woman to head a major UK trade uniom when she is elected leader of SOGAT
Mar23	US announced the discovery of the AIDS virus
Mar31	Hello Dandy wins the Grand National at Aintree. Years later he was found in an appalling and distressed condition after being abandoned by his owners. Thankfully due to the work of an equine rehabilitation centre he was restored to full health and at the age of 24 is still going strong
Apr1	The singer Marvin Gaye shot dead by his father Marvin Gaye Sr
Apr2	14 Finnish tourists are injured as a Palestinian bomb explodes in Jerusalem
Apr4	Winston Smith in George Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
Apr17	WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan People's Bureau in London by "diplomats" inside the building.
Apr23	USA announces the discovery of the AIDS virus
May8	USSR boycotts the Los Angeles Olympics - The US boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Jun6	Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 1,000 people.
Jun22	Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic
Jul9	A bolt of lightning sets fire to York Minster, causing extensive damage to the fabric of the Minster
Jul28	23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
Aug4	1984 Zola Budd accidentally tripped Mary Decker during the 3,000m in the Los Angeles Olympics to cause one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of the Games.
Aug11	Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, by winning four Olympic track gold medals
Aug14	IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
Aug21	Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the Marcos regime
Sep26	Britain & China sign initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
Oct12	Two large explosions heavily damaged the Grand Hotel where British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government ministers were staying during their Conservative Party's annual conferencen. Four died as a result but neither Thatcher nor any of her ministers were hurt. On 29th June 1985 police charged IRA member Patrick Joseph Magee with planting the bomb and he received 8 life sentences in the subsequent trial. He was released after 14 years in 1999
Oct19	A Polish Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is kidnapped and found two days later dead. At his funeral on Nov 3rd 250,000 Poles witness the Ceromony. There are strong suspicions that the murder was a conspiracy by the Polish Security forces
Oct24	High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
Nov2	Margie Velma Barfield, a convicted murderer became the first woman to be executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. She was also the first woman to be executed in the US by lethal injection
Nov3	Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi is cremated
Nov6	President Reagan is re-elected as the President of the United States of America in the greatest Republican landslide in history. He won 49 states against Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro who stood on the Democratic ticket.
Nov9	Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") in Washington DC is completed
Nov30	The Tamil Tigers begin the "ethnic cleansing" of the Singalese from North and East Sri Lanka - 127 are murdered
Dec3	British Telecom privatised - shares make massive gains on first day's trading
	2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
Dec23	15 people are killed and another 180 are injured as the Fascists bomb a train near Bologna
Dec25	97 Britons are on the first Concorde flight to Finnish Lapland (Rovaniemi)
Dec31	Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's sixth PM succeeds his mother, Indira
	The Bourne and Hollingworth store in Oxford Street London closes after 82 years

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