WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1984
Find out what all happened January to December 1984

A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike. (18. June 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)

A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people. (20. September 1984)

William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity. (16. March 1984)

103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul (6. May 1984)

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

The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. (8. May 1984)

John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. (3. February 1984)

The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. (1. January 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)

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

The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial. (22. January 1984)

Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. (25. July 1984)

Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. (6. April 1984)

PC Brian Bishop was a British police officer who was shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He died from his injuries five days later. (22. August 1984)

Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released. (6. June 1984)

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

Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. (5. September 1984)