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1984
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POLITICS
and HISTORY
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Bishop
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Los
Angeles host the Olympic Games
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Indian
Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi
is assassinated
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The
UK and China agree that Hong Kong
will revert to China in 1997
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Brunei
becomes an Independent Sultanate and the 159th
U.N. member
MUSIC
- Careless
Whisper by Wham
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Relax
by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Like
a Virgin by Madonna
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Original
Sin by INXS
TV
and at the MOVIES
- Amadeus
became a foolhardy, farting, genius
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We
all rang the Ghostbusters
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Gremlins
got into everything
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The
Killing Fields shook the world to the atrocities
suffered in Cambodia
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Police
Academy started it's epic movie serial
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Night
Court had us watching Bull
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Miami
Vice got those groovy pastel suits emptying
off the shelves
People
who died in 1984
- Richard
Burton (b.1925) British actor
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Yuri
Andropov (b.1914) General Secretary of the
U.S.S.R
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Marvin
Gaye (b.1939) American Soul Singer
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Johnny
Weismuller (b.1904) actor, famous for his
portrayal of 'Tarzan'
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Count
Basie (b.1904) American Jazz pianist and bandleader
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Sam
Peckinpah (b.1925) American film director
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James
Mason (b.1909) English actor
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Irwin
Shaw (b.1913) American screenwriter and novelist
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Jackie
Coogan (b.1914) American actor
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Ethel
Merman (b.1909) American popular singer
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