WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1984
Find out what all happened March to September 1984

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. (18. September 1984)

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

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)

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)

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)

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