This Month in May 1984
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Billboard Charts Top Songs for May 1984
April 28- May 05 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) Phil Collins
May 12- May 19 Hello Lionel Richie
May 26 Let's Hear It For The Boy Deniece Williams
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Top #10 songs in the USA
2. Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
3. Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
4. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
5. Julio Iglesias - To All The Girls I've Loved Before
6. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
7. Rick Springfield - Love Somebody
Other New in May 1984
the Following Content from Wikipedia
May 2 – The International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 5 The Herreys' song Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg.
The Itaipu Dam is inaugurated on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after 9 years of construction, making it the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.
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o The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. o The Chicago White Sox defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 in the longest game in Major League Baseball history: 25 innings totalling eight hours, six minutes. |
May 11 – A transit of Earth across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when the planet Earth passes directly between the Sun and Mars, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc for an observer on Mars. During a transit, Earth would be visible from Mars as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun. They occur every 26, 79 and 100 years, and every 1,000 years or so there is an extra 53rd-year transit.
No one has ever seen a transit of Earth from Mars, but the next transit will take place on November 10, 2084!!!
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May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", opens.
Space Shuttle Enterprise at 1984 World Fair New Orleans
May 13 – Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets’ Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets’ Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
It was also Mother’s Day in the USA.
May 14 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 17 – Michael Silka kills nine people near Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.
Michael Allen Silka (August 20, 1958 – May 19, 1984) was an American spree killer who is believed to have killed nine people in Alaska during May 1984, primarily in the small village of Manley Hot Springs. The spree culminated in a shootout with Alaska State Troopers in the Alaskan wilderness in which Silka was shot and killed. The motives for Silka's actions remain unclear
May 19 – The Edmonton Oilers win The Stanley Cup, beating the defending champion New York Islanders in 4 games to 1.
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May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England, kills 16 people.
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May 27 – An overnight flash flood rages through neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nearly 15 inches of rain falls in some areas over a four-hour period; 14 people are killed.
May 31 – Six inmates, including James and Linwood Briley, escape from a death row facility at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, the only occasion this has ever happened in the United States. They were all catch over the next few days.
