Page 3: Historical Events In 1984

Feb 05   New Zealand beat England (82 and 93) by an innings in 3 days   

Feb 06   Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army.   

Feb 07   Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67.   

Feb 07   David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for inaugural time   

Feb 07   Michael Jackson awarded a 4-foot-high platinum disc by CBS   

Feb 07   U.S. space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert Stewart perform the inaugural untethered space walk.   

Feb 07   US astronaut Bruce McCandless is the inaugural person to 'Spacewalk' untethered to a spacecraft.   

Feb 08   14th Winter Olympics games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia   

Feb 08   inaugural time 8 people in space.   

Feb 08   Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7   

Feb 09   Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras.   

Feb 09   Russian leader Yuri V. Andropov dies at age 69   

Feb 11   10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth.   

Feb 12   Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics receiving all perfect scores for quality and the gold medal.   

Feb 12   Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69.   

Feb 13   6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant.   

Feb 13   Konstantin Chernenko is selected as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, after the death of Yuri Andropov.   

Feb 14   Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia.   

Feb 15   500000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq   

Feb 16   Bill Johnson is recorded as becoming inaugural American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold.   

Feb 16   In this year, Canada's Brian Orser claims Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male.   

Feb 16   In this year, In Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher claims second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games.   

Feb 16   Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69.   

Feb 17   Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69.   

Feb 18   Revised concordat between Italy and the Vatican signed.   

Feb 19   14th winter Olympics games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.   

Feb 19   Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66.   

Feb 20   Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61   

Feb 21   Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies.   

Feb 24   Iraq resumes air attack on Iran.   

Feb 24   Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59   

Feb 25   Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil results in the deaths of 500   

Feb 26   Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut   

Feb 26   Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse   

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Feb 29   Cam ward: Canadian ice hockey player   

Feb 29   Darren ambrose: English footballer   

Feb 29   Cullen jones: American swimmer   

Feb 29   Adam sinclair: Indian field hockey player   

Apr 30   Shawn daivari: Persian-american professional wrestler and manager   

May 22   Joe lauzon: American martial artist   

Jun 14   Siobhán donaghy: British singer (ex-sugababes)   

Jun 14   Lorenzo booker: American football player   

Jan 01   Alexis korner: British blues musician (b. 1928)   

Jan 06   Ernest laszlo: Hungarian-u.s. cinematographer (b. 1898)   

Jan 07   Alfred kastler: French physicist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1902)   

Jan 09   Wolfgang staudte: German director (ciske de rat),   

Jan 10   Suvanna phuma: Premier of laos,   

Jan 11   Fritz geissler: Composer,   

Jan 14   Mary zeldenrust-noordanus: Dutch sexuologist (nvsh),    

Jan 18   Malcolm h kerr: 9th pres of american u of beirut, shot dead