WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1984
Find out what all happened October to December 1984

Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers. (4. December 1984)

Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty. (27. November 1984)

"Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon. (26. October 1984)

The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. (19. December 1984)

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107-150 civilians in Mannar. (4. December 1984)

An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178. (11. October 1984)

Bernhard Goetz shoots four African American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York. (22. December 1984)

Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. (14. November 1984)

Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. (3. December 1984)

Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit. (12. December 1984)

Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31. (12. October 1984)

Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (16. October 1984)

The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England in the Pennines. (20. December 1984)

Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. (2. November 1984)

Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. (11. October 1984)

The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history. (16. October 1984)

The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack. (10. November 1984)

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed. (31. October 1984)

Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. (25. November 1984)

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. (5. October 1984)