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1984
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POLITICS and HISTORY
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Bishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Los Angeles host the Olympic Games
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Indian Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi is assassinated
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The UK and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
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Brunei becomes an Independent Sultanate and the 159th U.N. member
MUSIC
- Careless Whisper by Wham
- Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Like a Virgin by Madonna
- Original Sin by INXS
TV and at the MOVIES
- Amadeus became a foolhardy, farting, genius
- We all rang the Ghostbusters
- Gremlins got into everything
- The Killing Fields shook the world to the atrocities suffered in Cambodia
- Police Academy started it's epic movie serial
- Night Court had us watching Bull
- Miami Vice got those groovy pastel suits emptying off the shelves
People who died in 1984
- Richard Burton (b.1925) British actor
- Yuri Andropov (b.1914) General Secretary of the U.S.S.R
- Marvin Gaye (b.1939) American Soul Singer
- Johnny Weismuller (b.1904) actor, famous for his portrayal of 'Tarzan'
- Count Basie (b.1904) American Jazz pianist and bandleader
- Sam Peckinpah (b.1925) American film director
- James Mason (b.1909) English actor
- Irwin Shaw (b.1913) American screenwriter and novelist
- Jackie Coogan (b.1914) American actor
- Ethel Merman (b.1909) American popular singer
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