WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1984
Find out what all happened February to August 1984

Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. (19. April 1984)

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. (30. August 1984)

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

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

President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons. (4. April 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)

Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England (1. August 1984)

Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour. (8. May 1984)

Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded. (22. March 1984)

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

"We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. (11. August 1984)

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

Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). (7. February 1984)

Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. (3. February 1984)

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

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

Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery. (5. March 1984)

Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building. (17. April 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 Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. (8. May 1984)

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