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1984 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2040. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1984 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1984

• January 1, 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• January 10, 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress’s 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
• February 2, 1984 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
• February 3, 1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
• February 7, 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• February 13, 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 8, 1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
• July 25, 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• September 12, 1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden’s 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
• December 20, 1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

Who Were Born On 1984?

• January 23, 1984 – Robbie Farah, Australian rugby player
• March 30, 1984 – Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
• April 16, 1984 – Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
• May 7, 1984 – May7ven, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• May 19, 1984 – Marcedes Lewis, American football player
• June 18, 1984 – Ronnie Stam, Dutch footballer
• July 21, 1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
• August 23, 1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
• September 12, 1984 – Petra Marklund, Swedish singer-songwriter
• December 10, 1984 – Mark Applegarth, English rugby player