WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1984
Find out what all happened March to December 1984

Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport. (22. June 1984)

Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine. (23. July 1984)

Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. (14. March 1984)

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

The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. (1. July 1984)

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

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

The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh (15. August 1984)

Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000. (3. June 1984)

Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales. (8. June 1984)

McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. (18. July 1984)

India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control. (13. April 1984)

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. (5. September 1984)

The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. (15. April 1984)

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

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

The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada. (20. April 1984)

Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. (14. September 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)