1984 In technology the Aids Virus is identified
at that point it is not the worldwide problem it is today. Following on
from the PC, Apple releases the Macintosh computer. Following the Widespread
Famine in Ethiopia Some many of the top British and Irish pop musicians
under the Name Band Aid and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas".
Following the boycott by the US of the Moscow Olympics the soviet block
boycotts the Los Angeles Olympic games. Recession continues to be a problem
in the US and 70 US Banks fail in just one year
Cost of Living 1984
How Much things cost in 1984
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 4.3 %
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1211
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.75%
Average Cost of new house $86,730.00
Average Income per year $21,600.00
Average Monthly Rent $350.00
Movie Ticket $2.50
1 gallon of gas $1.10
Dodge RAM 50 Truck $8,995.00
What Events Happened in 1984
Indian Prime
minister Indria Ghandi assassinated
Widespread Famine in Ethiopia after
political conflict with charities believing as many as 10 million people
are facing starvation
Hundreds die from the effects of toxic gases
which leak from the Bhopal Union Carbide Factory
The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert
to China in 1997
A Man shoots 20 dead and wounds 16 in McDonalds
Restaurant in San Ysidro California
A giant gas works explosion on the
outskirts of Mexico City left 500 dead
The Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles
USSR And soviet block boycotts the Olympic
games in retaliation for Western Boycott in 1980
A Union Carbide Pesticide plant in Bhopal
India leaks the lethal gas killing more than 3,500
Twelve month long strike by coal miners begins
in British coal industry, during the strike pickets and police clash
multiple times at pits and collieries around the country.
WPC Yvonne Fletcher a London police officer
is shot and killed by Libyan Diplomat
700 year old wing of York Minster destroyed
by fire
By the year end more than 70 US Banks fail
IRA Bomb goes off in Grand Hotel Brighton
during Conservative Conference
Virgin Atlantic Inaugural flight .
Indian army troops sent into the Sikh rebel
held Golden Temple compound in Amritsar
Ethiopian famine begins
(Subway Vigilante) Bernhard Goetz shoots
four black youths on a Manhattan subway
Brunei Gains Independence From Great Britain
The Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles,
United States
The Winter Olympic Games are held
in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Popular Culture 1984
The MTV Video
Music Awards Started
36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians
gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the
song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money
for famine relief in Ethiopia
Michael Jackson wins unprecedented acclaim
for his Album Thriller and sales over 37 million copies
Popular Films
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
Beverly Hills Cop
Terms of Endearment
The Karate Kid
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Police Academy
Romancing the Stone
Splash
The Terminator
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
A Passage To India
Popular Musicians
Phil Collins
Alison Moyet
Billy Joel
Tina Turner with "What's Love got to
do with it"
David Bowie
Wham! with "Wake Me up Before You Go"
Billy Ocean
UB40
Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to
say I love You"
Bruce Springsteen
Kenny Rogers
Bananarama
Duran Duran with "The Reflex"
Ultravox
Cars
Popular TV Programs
Magnum, P.I.
Dynasty
Entertainment Tonight
Falcon Crest
Hill Street Blues
Cagney and Lacey
Cheers
Fame
Knight Rider
The A-Team
Jeopardy!
Technology 1984
Aids Virus identified
by French Immunologist
AT&T Broken Up
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial
CD Players
Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer
disk
The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden
voyage
First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered
using jet back Packs
Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling
was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining
evidence in a crime
