1984
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1st woman to walk in space
Roger Waters releases his first solo single, "5.01 a.m. (The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking)"
Dave Gilmour releases his second solo album, "About Face", co-written with Pete Townshend
Dave Gilmour releases his second solo album, "About Face", co-written with Pete Townshend
Mozambique & South Africa end hostilities. 1st agreement signed between South Africa & a black nation
Mozambique & South Africa end hostilities
Hun Sen becomes Acting Prime Minister after Chan Sy's death
Signs the Hong Kong agreement in Peking, Hong Kong will return to China by 1997
Cuba agrees to to take back criminals in exchange for Cuban political prisoners
Anti-Sikh violence erupts in Delhi and other cities after Indira Gandhi's assassination.
Chernenko & Mitterand clash over human rights during the discussion of Sakharov
Scargill arrested on Orgreave picket line
A high official of the banned Solidarity union is arrested
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
Security police assassinate Jerzy Popieluszko
Popieluszkos body is found in the Vistula River
4 Polish officers are tried for the assassination of Jerzy Popieluszko
AT&T separates its local telephone companies under the antitrust settlement.
Accepts a negotiated settlement defining the maritime boundary with Argentina.
A toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal kills thousands and causes long-term health damage.
Sanjay Kulkarni reaches Bilafond La during Operation Meghdoot as Indian troops establish positions on the Saltoro Ridge.
Nominated as Bishop of Durham
Releases Blue Jean, one of the major singles from Tonight.
Tebbits wife is paralysed. Injured by an IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference
An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
The Government begins the public share sale transferring British Telecom into private ownership.
Re-interred in a Russian orthodox chapel at Brookwood cemetery, Surrey
Edwards bones are returned to the custody of the Midland Bank where they remain
200,000 attend the rites for Jerzy Popieluszko
Attends Andropovs funeral in the USSR
Releases Camouflage, featuring production and guitar work from Jeff Beck.
Iran captures Iraqs oil-rich Majnoon Islands
Iran captures Iraqs oil-rich Majnoon Islands
Appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Head of State
Chernenko & Mitterand clash over human rights during the discussion of Sakharov
Chernenko & Mitterand clash publicly over human rights
A cabinet system of Government with the Sultan as Prime Minister
General Conte assumes power in Guinea
Defends Government cruise-missile policy during Commons questioning.
Reimposes a state of siege amid expanding opposition protests.
Answers a parliamentary question concerning the Statement on the Defence Estimates.
Addresses Commons questions on defence expenditure.
Relieved of all duties
Chairs the Ad Hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs established to propose reforms to European cooperation.
Supports creation of the Dooge Committee to propose improvements in Community institutions.
Supports creation of the Dooge Committee to propose improvements in Community institutions and political cooperation.
Hosts the European Council as leaders resolve issues involving wine production, budget discipline and enlargement.
Russia & China sign a $1.2 billion trade agreement
Urban workers pay & bonuses will be linked to job performance
Russia & China sign a $1.2 billion trade agreement
Congress wins a record parliamentary majority in the general election held after Indira Gandhi's assassination.
Elected Prime Minister of Grenada
Mondale is defeated by Reagan who wins 50 out of 51 states
The Progressive Conservative Party wins 211 of the 282 seats in the House of Commons
Elected President of Nicaragua
The Labour Alignment Party wins 44 seats in the Knesset
The Parliamentary elections end with Peress Labour Party winning 44 seats
The Colorado Party wins the democratic election that precedes the restoration of civilian constitutional government
Shamirs Likuud Party wins 44 seats, no party has a majority
Elected President of Germany
Completes the First Presidential Term as President of Iceland.
Guides Liverpool to European Cup victory over Roma.
Mitterrand addressed the European Parliament and urged renewed political momentum for European integration.
Becomes executive State President under the new constitution.
Is elected South Africa's first executive state president.
Passes papers to US diplomats which request his wife be given asylum in the US embassy
Stalins daughter returns to Russia after an absence of 17 yrs
Addresses Commons questions concerning defence of the Falkland Islands.
Represents Germany as leaders seek a durable settlement of Community budget disputes and institutional reform.
Mitterrand chaired the Fontainebleau European Council, which settled major budget disputes and relaunched institutional reform.
Represents Greece as leaders settle major budget disputes and revive institutional reform.
Supports the decision to examine reforms aimed at strengthening European cooperation.
Appointed Foreign Minister
Appointed Minister of External Relations
Papoulias is appointed Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs.
France gets its 1st delivery of Soviet natural gas
France gets its 1st delivery of Soviet natural gas
Appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party
The mainly US Multi-National Force is forced out of Beirut
A small polyp is removed from Reagans colon
Duarte visits Washington & persuades Congress to provide more military aid to Salvador
Says Laos will allow the US to search for remains of US pilots
Jokes on the radio about bombing Russia
Appears at the United Nations & appeals for a thaw in relations with Russia
US marines land in Grenada
Defeats Mondale by winning 50 out of 51 states & 59% of the popular vote
Places his handprints and footprints in cement at Graumans Chinese Theatre.
Makes 1st public appearence for 7 weeks
Barbra Streisand records, "Here We Are at Last"
Innuagurated as the President of the Federal Republic of Germany
Brunei assumes full independence
Satish Dhawan leads ISRO when Rakesh Sharma begins the first spaceflight by an Indian citizen aboard Soyuz T-11.
Iran launches a "massive" offensive against Iraq
Iran opens a "massive" offensive against Iraq
Injured by an IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference
An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference
Government record concerning the IRA: Tebbits wife is paralysed. Injured by an IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference
Historical IRA record under Conservative Party Government: Tebbits wife is paralysed. Injured by an IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference
IRA context for Norman Tebbit: Tebbits wife is paralysed. Injured by an IRA bomb at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party Conference
Government record concerning the IRA: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Historical IRA record under Conservative Party Government: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
IRA context for Margaret Hilda Thatcher: An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. 4 are killed but the conference continues
Howe & Thatcher sign the Joint Declaration handover to China by 1st July 1997
Appointed Lord Commissioner
Ball resumes his managerial career iwith Portsmouth and was a huge success
Margaret Thatcher is visited by the Gorbachevs
Margaret Thatcher meets Konstantin Chernenko. Calls for peaceful coexistence with the US
Margaret Thatcher meets Konstantin Chernenko
Faces the start of the national miners' strike.
Appointed Minister of Economics, Finance, and Budget
Appointed Minister of European Affairs
Appointed Minister of Industrial Redeployment and External Commerce
Appointed Minister of the Interior and Decentralization
Appointed Minister of Labour, Employment, and Vocational Training
Makes and defends proposals concerning organisation of the Ministry of Defence.
Hubbard records a brief stellar-light drop near Neptune that provides strong evidence for a partial ring or ring arc.
The office of prime minister is abolished.
Black South Africans remain excluded from national parliamentary representation.
Signs a non-aggression accord with Mozambique.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions enabling discovery of the W and Z particles.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing solid-phase methods for chemical synthesis, especially peptide synthesis.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries leading to the W and Z particles, carriers of the weak interaction.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, for work against apartheid
Seeks limits on cross-border support for armed opposition movements.
Indira Gandhi orders Operation Blue Star against armed Sikh militants inside the Golden Temple complex.
Indian forces assault the Golden Temple complex during Operation Blue Star against armed Sikh militants.
India launches Operation Meghdoot and deploys troops to secure strategic positions on the Siachen Glacier.
Takes part in Commons proceedings on the Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill.
Paris, Texas wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Rifai participates in peace negotiations connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.
The Fontainebleau summit backed measures intended to make the European Community more visible and meaningful to its citizens.
Has a meeting with the NUM & announces there will be 20 pit closures
Appointed Poet Laureate
Rifai participates in political reform connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.
Chernenko & Mitterand clash publicly over human rights
Chernenko & Mitterand clash over human rights during the discussion of Sakharov
Chan Sy's premiership ends after his death
Appointed President of Algeria, 2nd term
Appointed President of Ecuador
Appointed President of Ecuador
Appointed President of Iceland, 2nd term
Appointed President of Panama
Appointed President of Panama
Appointed President of Salvador
Duarte becomes elected President during the Salvadoran Civil War
Mobutu receives another term through a single-candidate presidential vote.
Zia uses a referendum to claim a five-year presidential mandate.
Appointed Prime Minister of Brunei
Appointed Prime Minister of Canada
Forms a Progressive Conservative majority government.
Succeeds Trudeau as Liberal prime minister.
Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
The Parliamentary elections end with Peress Labour Party winning 44 seats
The Knesset votes for a coalition Government. Appointed Prime Minister of Israel for 25 months followed by 25 months for Shamir
British Telecom is floated on the stock exchange
Rakesh Sharma becomes the first Indian citizen to travel into space aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11 mission.
Releases the live album Real Live.
Presents views on changing economic management mechanisms
Makes a conference speech supporting reform & introducing "perestroika" & "glasnost"
Trudeau resigns after 16 yrs in office
Pierre Mauroy resigns as Premier of France
Resigns after Gorbachev announces unilateral defence cuts at the United Nations
Resigns after Gorbachev announces unilateral defence cuts at the United Nations
Habib Bourguiba restored bread subsidies after nationwide unrest over food prices.
Howe & Thatcher sign the Joint Declaration handover to China by 1st July 1997
Howe & Thatcher sign Declaration handing over Hong Kong to China by 1st July 1997
Signs the Hong Kong agreement in Peking, Hong Kong will return to China by 1997
Signs an agreement with Margaret Thatcher for Hong Kong to be returned by 1997
Appointed Minister of Defence
Appointed Junior Treasury spokesman
Pakistani and Indian troops clash on the Siachen front after both sides establish positions in the high mountains.
Zia-ul-Haq's government deploys Pakistani forces after India occupies key positions on the Saltoro Ridge near Siachen.
The Lebanese Army loses control of West Beirut
The premiership is abolished under the new constitution.
An opening ceremony is held for Strawberry Fields, an area in New York Citys Central Park dedicated to John Lennon
Closes down a Yorkshire colliery, 55,000 miners go on strike
Scargill insists pitts must close on the basis of exhaustion. Negotiations begin with the NUM
The NUM bans overtime
The NCB announce closure of Cortonwood in Yorkshire sparking off the Miners Strike
Miners strike in South Yorkshire and some Scottish pits
The National Coal Board announces plans to cut coal output by 4 million tons to stem annual loss of $340 million a year. National Union of Mineworkers say this will mean closing 20 pits and loss of 20,000 jobs
The NUM executive backs nationwide strikes
The NUM National Executive supports Yorkshire & Scotland without a national ballot
Durham and Kent coalfields join the strike
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) chief Arthur Scargill unites various strikes into nationwide industrial action, without a ballot
The beginning of the Miners Strike, during the 1st day 100 pits are closed down
The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike
Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike
Scargill vetoes a national ballot on the miners strike
The NUM Special Delegate Conference votes to reduce the majority needed for a strike
Rival groups of miners throw stones and hurl bricks at each other when 5,000 working miners stage a right-to-work march
Negotiations begin with the NCB, Scargill says only exhausted pits should close
Scargill arrested on Orgreave picket line
10,000 miners march through London to Parliament. Police arrest 110. Opposition Labor Party accuses Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives of intervening directly to defeat miners. Government affirms it will not interfere in any Coal Board settlement with miners
The battle of Orgreave, 5,000 riot police took on 5,000 protestors, who pelted officers with bricks and stones
Scargill knocked unconscious in Orgreave violence. Police deny he was hit by a truncheon
Steel union leaders reject call for steel strike as 'completely unacceptable.'
South Wales miners assets seized and fined $55,000 for contempt of court over picketing
Miners & police clash at Kellingley
Miners & police clash at Maltby
A Judge rules that the miners strike is illegal
Union fined $200,000 for contempt of court
Pit supervisors vote to strike
Pit supervisors call off their strike
The High Court orders seizure of union funds
The Sunday Times discloses the miners asked Libya for money
Union funds of $3 million seized in Dublin
1,200 miners go back to work
A growing number of miners decide to return to work as Christmas looms
Special union conference votes to fight on
A court fines Scargill for obstruction
Nottinghamshire miners vote to defy union rules
Miners strike in South Yorkshire and some Scottish pits
The National Coal Board announces plans to cut coal output by 4 million tons to stem annual loss of $340 million a year. National Union of Mineworkers say this will mean closing 20 pits and loss of 20,000 jobs
Cortonwood colliery strikes over closure plans
81 pits are out but 83 work normally
The National Coal Board says Britain has 23 million tons of coal in stock with another 24 million at the power stations
Union moderates call for a national strike ballot
The High Court orders miners leaders to stop backing roving pickets
Violent picketing shuts down more mines. 132 pits shut. Some 136,000 of Britain's 175,000 miners now on strike
End of the flying pickets outside Ollerton colliery
The Government dispatches 3,000 extra police to the Midlands
The Midlands, Northeast and Northwest miners vote against strike
Some 8,000 police guard mines roadblocks across Midlands in the biggest police operation in a labor dispute since the 1926 general strike
The Kent NUM loses its case against the Government. The Kent NUM challenge the Governments right to turn away pickets
Sets up a special committee to deal with the Miners Strike
London demonstration in support of the miners
Scargill vetoes a national ballot on the miners strike
Rival groups of miners throw stones and hurl bricks at each other when 5,000 working miners stage a right-to-work march
10,000 miners march through London to Parliament. Police arrest 110
The Opposition Labour Party accuses the Government of intervening directly to defeat the miners. The Government denies it interfere in any Coal Board settlement
Miners try to force the closure of the Sheffield steel plant & confront the police
The TGWU begins a Dock Strike over breaches of the National Dock Labour Scheme
The TGWU calls off the National Dock Strike
Walter Marshall estimates power stations can run until Nov 1985
NUM assets are sequestrated. 2 Miners begin Court action against the Yorkshire NUM for striking without a ballot
A Judge rules that the miners strike is illegal
A court fines Scargill for obstruction
Announces a further phase of plans to expand and reorganise the Territorial Army.
Directs The NeverEnding Story.
Roger Waters releases his first solo album, "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking"
FitzGerald opens Ireland's 1984 Presidency, with institutional reform, enlargement and famine relief high on the agenda.
Cyndi Laupers "Time After Time" becomes #1 in the USA
Russia & China sign a $1.2 billion trade agreement
Russia & China sign a $1.2 billion trade agreement
Signs the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Argentina after papal mediation of the Beagle dispute.
The new tricameral constitutional system comes into force.
Addresses Commons questions concerning the Trident programme.
The United Nations General Assembly condems South Africa
The US & the Vatican reestablish diplomatic relations after a 117-year break
Russia issues a formal complaint against alleged US Treaty violations
Vega 1 launches on a dual mission that will deploy a Venus lander and balloon before continuing to Halley's Comet.
Vega 2 launches with a Venus atmospheric balloon and lander as part of the international Vega programme.
Vietnam launches major dry-season offensive against border bases
Reagan hosts a visit by Gromyko in the Oval office for more than 3 1/2 hrs
Thatcher visits Hungary, 1st Warsaw country visited as PM
The Gorbachevs visit Margaret Thatcher, Raisas 1st visit to western Europe
Visits Margaret Thatcher at her invitation as an up & coming leader
Reagan hosts a visit by Gromyko in the Oval office for more than 3 1/2 hrs
Duarte visits Washington & persuades Congress to provide more military aid to Salvador
Appointed Treasury Whip
A shot from the Libyan diplomatic mission kills police officer Yvonne Fletcher during a protest.
Rick Wright releases a self-titled album of his collaboration with Dave Harris, "Zee"
Releases Born in the USA, the album that turns him into a global pop and rock superstar.
Death of Adam Malik
Death of Ahmed Sekou Toure
Death of Alexis Korner, a lifelong smoker, of lung cancer
Death of Indira Gandhi
Death of James Mason
Death of Jerzy Popieluszko, assassinated
An opening ceremony is held for Strawberry Fields, an area in New York Citys Central Park dedicated to John Lennon
Death of Johny Weissmuller
Death of Lillian Hellman
Michel Foucault dies in Paris after complications associated with AIDS, aged fifty-seven.
Death of Mikhail Sholokov
Death of Richard Burton
Death of Sam Peckinpah
Death of Truman Capote
Death of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, aged 69
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