WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1984
Find out what all happened April to December 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)

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

Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record. (12. September 1984)

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

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

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)

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

The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack. (10. November 1984)

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

Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. (14. November 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)

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

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

The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. (4. August 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 United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong (26. September 1984)

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

The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. (19. December 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)