Date: October 12, 1984
Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. Date: November 2, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 2 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1984UK Miners’ Strike Begins at Cortonwood Colliery, March 6, 1984MPAA…
Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales. Date: June 8, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 8 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1984103 Korean Martyrs Canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul, May 6, 1984Soviet…
NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes. Date: December 1, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 1 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Date: November 25, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 25 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today)…
Iran launches Operation Dawn 5, a major offensive during the Iran–Iraq War targeting the Basra–Baghdad highway, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. Date: February 16, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 16 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1984STS-41-D Space…
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space. Date: October 5, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 5 📅 Events on this day in 1984 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1984Aeroflot Flight 3352 Crashes in Omsk, Killing 178 – October 11, 1984First Embryo Transfer to Live Birth…