1984 French Television Series Debuts

Events

January

* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
* January 10
** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.
** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission.
*January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States.

February

* February 3
** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.
* February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
* February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
* February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* February 22 – President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
* February 23 – TED (conference) founded.
* February 29 – Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March

* March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; 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 gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
* April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.
* April 15 – The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.

* April 16 – More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.
* April 19 – '' Advance Australia Fair'' is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
* April 24 – An X-class solar flare erupts on the Sun.
* April 26 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor becomes Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in succession to Sultan Ahmad Shah, whose term ended the previous day.

May

* May 2 – South Africa, 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 Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg. It subsequently became a top ten hit in five European countries.
** The Itaipu Dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, begins generating power; it was the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.
* May 8 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
* May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
* May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World's Fair, opens.
* May 13 – Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets' Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets' Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
* May 14 – The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
* May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, UK, kills 16 people.
* May 30 – Liverpool beat Roma 5-2 after penalties in the final of the 1984 European Cup football tournament.

June

* June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
* June 6 – Tetris is officially released in the Soviet Union on the Electronika 60.
* 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 22 – Virgin Atlantic makes its inaugural flight.
* June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.
* June 30 – John Turner becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

July

* July 1
** Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.
** Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).
* July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.

* July 25 – ''Salyut 7'': cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
* July 28– August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

August

* August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.
* August 4
** The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
** reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.
* August 11
** Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, and Mary Decker of the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.
* August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
* August 21 – Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

* August 30 – STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' takes off on its maiden voyage.

September

* September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
* September 4 – The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
* September 5
** '' STS-41-D'': the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands after its maiden voyage at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
** Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
* September 7 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
* September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.
* September 14 – Joe Kittinger