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{{Events by month|1984}}
[[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]],
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===March===
* [[March 5]] – [[Iran]] accuses [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] of using [[chemical weapon]]s; the [[United Nations]] condemns their use on [[March 30]].
* [[March 16]] – The United States [[Central Intelligence Agency]] station chief in [[Beirut]], [[William Francis Buckley]], is kidnapped by the [[Islamic Jihad Organization]] and later dies in captivity.
* [[March 23]] – General [[Rahimuddin Khan]] becomes the first man in [[Pakistan]]'s history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of [[Sindh]].
===April===
* [[April 2]] – Indian Squadron Leader [[Rakesh Sharma]] is launched into space, aboard the ''[[Soyuz T-11]]''.
* [[April 12]] – [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
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===May===
* [[May 2]] – South Africa, [[People's Republic of Mozambique|Mozambique]] and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the [[Cahora Bassa]] dam.
* [[May 5]]
** The Herreys' song "[[Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley]]" wins the [[1984 Eurovision Song Contest|Eurovision Song Contest]] for [[Sweden]] in [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Economist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZvqAAAAMAAJ |year=2005 |publisher=Economist Newspaper Limited |page=57}}</ref> It subsequently becomes a top-ten hit in five European countries.
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* [[June 8]] – A F5 [[tornado]] nearly destroys the town of [[Barneveld, Wisconsin]], killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
* [[June 16]] – The Canadian entertainment company [[Cirque du Soleil]] is founded.
* [[June 19]] – 17-year-old [[Ricky Kasso]] murders Gary Lauwers in [[Northport, New York]], contributing to the [[Satanic panic]] association of [[heavy metal music]] and [[satanism]].
* [[June 22]] – [[Virgin Atlantic]] makes its inaugural flight.
* [[June 25]] – [[Hayim Association]] is founded by Prof. [[Rina Zaizov Marx]] and [[parents]] of [[children]] with [[cancer]] as [[paediatric]] [[oncology]] department in [[Israel]].
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* [[December 1]] – A peace agreement between [[Kenya]] and [[Somalia]] is signed in the [[Egypt]]ian capital [[Cairo]]. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries begin to improve.
* [[December 2]] – [[1984 Australian federal election]]: [[Bob Hawke]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Hawke government|government]] is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|National]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by [[Andrew Peacock]].
* [[December 3]] – [[Bhopal disaster]]: A [[methyl isocyanate]] leak from a [[Union Carbide]] pesticide plant in [[Bhopal]],
* [[December 4]]
** [[Sri Lankan Civil War]], [[1984 Mannar massacre]]: [[Sri Lankan Army]] soldiers kill over 200 civilians in the town of [[Mannar, Sri Lanka|Mannar]].
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