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1984
 
    
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, that of an almost silent killing machine, in The Terminator       
1984
 
    
Czech novelist Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the tradition of magic realism       
1984
 
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Drugs barons in Colombia murder the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, to protect their trade      
1984
 
     
Sikh rebels, demanding an independent Punjab, seize the Golden Temple in Amritsar        
1984
 
    
English athlete Daley Thompson sets an Olympic and world record in the decathlon at the Los Angeles Olympics       
1984
 
     
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi uses the army to dislodge militant Sikhs occupying the Golden Temple in Amritsar        
1984
 
   
Diego Maradona is sold to Napoli for a new record fee of about £5 million, two years after being sold to Barcelona for £3 million      
1984
 
     
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot        
1984
 
   
David Lange becomes prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour election victory      
1984
 
    
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart