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For George Orwell's novel, see Nineteen Eighty-Four. For other uses, see 1984 (disambiguation).
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Events
Crack is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spread across the United States.
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January
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February
February 9 - Disclosure of remarks by Jesse Jackson, which some consider an anti-Semitic slur, hurt his presidential campaign.
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March
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April
April 12 - Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed). Two other hijackers are captured and then killed in secret service interrogations, causing a major scandal and secret service upheaval.
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May
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June
June 6 - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 300 people.
June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
November 19 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
November 23 - Doug Flutie of Boston College throws a 'Hail Mary pass' to Gerald Phelan, giving Boston College a 47-45 win over the Miami Hurricanes.
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December
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Famine in Ethiopia begins.
A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia was signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo in December 1984. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounced its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
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January
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February
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March
March 24 - Chris Bosh, American Basketball player currently playing with the Toronto Raptors
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Nobel prizes
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Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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Ship events
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