1984: Difference between revisions

[[File:1984 Events Collage.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Clockwise from top-left: [[Diretas Já|a civil unrest movement]] demands direct presidential elections in [[Brazil]]; Indian prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]] is [[Assassination of Indira Gandhi|assassinated by two of her security guards]], heralding the beginning of the [[1984 anti-Sikh riots|anti-Sikh riots]] in [[India]]; [[NASA]] and the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] intentionally [[Controlled Impact Demonstration|crash]] a remotely controlled [[Boeing 720]] aircraft to acquire data and test new technologies to aid passenger and crew survival; the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]; [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] releases its revolutionary [[Macintosh 128K|personal computer]]; the [[Sino-British Joint Declaration]] treaty is signed; the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers]] in the [[United Kingdom]] [[UK miners' strike (1984–85)|strike against]] the [[National Coal Board]] in an attempt to prevent colliery closures; [[Bhopal disaster|a methyl isocyanate leak]] kills at least 3,787 people in [[Bhopal]], [[India]].]]

* [[December 3]] – [[Bhopal disaster]]: A [[methyl isocyanate]] leak from a [[Union Carbide]] pesticide plant in [[Bhopal]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.