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What happen in 1984

POLITICS and HISTORY

Bishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Los Angeles host the Olympic Games
Indian Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi is assassinated
The UK and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
Brunei becomes an Independent Sultanate and the 159th U.N. member

MUSIC

Careless Whisper by Wham
Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Like a Virgin by Madonna
Original Sin by INXS

TV and at the MOVIES

Amadeus became a foolhardy, farting, genius
We all rang the Ghostbusters
Gremlins got into everything
The Killing Fields shook the world to the atrocities suffered in Cambodia
Police Academy started it's epic movie serial
Night Court had us watching Bull
Miami Vice got those groovy pastel suits emptying off the shelves

People who died in 1984

Richard Burton (b.1925) British actor
Yuri Andropov (b.1914) General Secretary of the U.S.S.R
Marvin Gaye (b.1939) American Soul Singer
Johnny Weismuller (b.1904) actor, famous for his portrayal of 'Tarzan'
Count Basie (b.1904) American Jazz pianist and bandleader
Sam Peckinpah (b.1925) American film director
James Mason (b.1909) English actor
Irwin Shaw (b.1913) American screenwriter and novelist
Jackie Coogan (b.1914) American actor
Ethel Merman (b.1909) American popular singer