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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

• 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.
• May 8, 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
• July 28, 1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were opened in Los Angeles.
• September 2, 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
• October 12, 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
• October 14, 1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• October 26, 1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• November 2, 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• December 1, 1984 – 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.

Who Were Born On 1984?

• January 21, 1984 – Alex Koslov, Moldovan-American wrestler
• January 25, 1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer
• February 21, 1984 – David Odonkor, German footballer
• April 3, 1984 – Maxi López, Argentinian footballer
• May 25, 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model and actress, Miss World 2005
• August 8, 1984 – Brenda Gandini, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
• September 15, 1984 – Loek van Mil, Dutch baseball player
• October 6, 1984 – Morné Morkel, South African cricketer
• November 28, 1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
• December 7, 1984 – Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver