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1984
Republican activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein
1984
The CIA covertly arranges for mines to be laid in Nicaragua's harbours
1984
US sprinter and long-jumper Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics
1984
A disastrous famine in the northern provinces of Ethiopia is the first to be seen all round the world on television
1984
The Turkana Boy, the most complete known skeleton of
Homo erectus
, is found near Lake Turkana by Kamoya Kimeu in Richard Leakey's team
1984
Roland Joffé directs
The Killing Fields
, set among the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
1984
Brian Mulroney wins a decisive electoral victory over the Liberals to become prime minister of Canada
1984
Genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting is invented and developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys
1984
Luciano Berio's opera
Un re in ascolto
has its premiere in Salzburg
1984
Australian bowler Dennis Lillee's total of 351 Test wickets sets a new record
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