WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1984
Find out what all happened April to October 1984

Brunei joins the United Nations. (21. September 1984)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. (14. September 1984)

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

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

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

The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. (4. August 1984)

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

The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong (26. September 1984)