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| 1984 |
| | | Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the title role, that of an almost silent killing machine, in The Terminator | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Czech novelist Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the tradition of magic realism | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Drugs barons in Colombia murder the Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, to protect their trade | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Sikh rebels, demanding an independent Punjab, seize the Golden Temple in Amritsar | |
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| 1984 |
| | | English athlete Daley Thompson sets an Olympic and world record in the decathlon at the Los Angeles Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi uses the army to dislodge militant Sikhs occupying the Golden Temple in Amritsar | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1984 |
| | | English author Julian Barnes publishes a multi-faceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot | |
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| 1984 |
| | | David Lange becomes prime minister of New Zealand after a Labour election victory | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Republican activist Gerry Adams is elected president of Sinn Fein | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The CIA covertly arranges for mines to be laid in Nicaragua's harbours | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US sprinter and long-jumper Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | A disastrous famine in the northern provinces of Ethiopia is the first to be seen all round the world on television | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Brian Mulroney wins a decisive electoral victory over the Liberals to become prime minister of Canada | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting is invented and developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Australian bowler Dennis Lillee's total of 351 Test wickets sets a new record | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Indira Gandhi is assassinated in Delhi by members of her Sikh bodyguard, in retaliation for the desecration of the Golden Temple | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Ian Botham is the first player to achieve the double triple, with a total of more than 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Rajiv Gandhi succeeds his mother as leader of the Congress party and prime minister of India | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) releases her second album, Like a Virgin, that goes on to sell millions | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The opera Akhnaten, by US composer Philip Glass, has its first performance in Stuttgart | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US choreographer William Forsythe becomes director of the Frankfurt Ballet | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Ronald Reagan is elected for a second presidential term, defeating the Democrat Walter Mondale | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Bob Geldof forms Band Aid and releases for Ethiopian famine relief the best-selling UK single Do they know its Christmas? | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Desmond Tutu, rector of an Anglican church in Soweto, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1984 |
| | | More than 2000 die in the Indian city of Bhopal when toxic gas escapes from a Union Carbide plant | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Civilian rule is restored in Brazil after Tancredo Neves and Jose Sarney are elected president and vice-president | |
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| 1985 |
| | | The miners' strike, ending after eleven bitter months, proves a turning point in the struggle between Margaret Thatcher and the unions | |
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| 1985 |
| | | New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('reform') to the USSR | |
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| 1985 |
| | | With the return of democracy to Bolivia, the 77-year-old Paz Estenssoro is once again elected president | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Peter Carey publishes Illywhacker, a novel narrated by a 139-year-old Australian | |
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| 1985 |
| | | A dormant volcano erupts in Colombia, burying some 20,000 victims under a deep layer of silt | |
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