Today in History for April 1984

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 64 of 64

1st - 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1st - 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn 72-61
1st - 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
2nd - 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
3rd - Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
3rd - Guinea suspends constitution after coup
3rd - Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
4th - Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
4th - Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
5th - "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
5th - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
6th - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
6th - 1st time 11 people in space
6th - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
7th - Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
8th - 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
8th - 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
9th - 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall & S Maclaine win
10th - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
10th - John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
10th - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
11th - Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
11th - Chinese troops invade Vietnam
11th - Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union
11th - Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
11th - USSR party leader Chernenko elected president
13th - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
13th - India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
13th - Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career
14th - Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
15th - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
15th - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
15th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
15th - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
15th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
16th - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28
16th - 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
16th - Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
16th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
17th - Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage
17th - During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead
18th - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
18th - Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
19th - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature mag)
20th - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
21st - "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour
21st - After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"
21st - Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
21st - Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
21st - Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game
22nd - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
23rd - AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
24th - Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
25th - Rock group Wings disbands
25th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
26th - Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
26th - Pres Reagan visits China
27th - Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
27th - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
28th - "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 perfs
29th - "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
29th - Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
30th - 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
30th - Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43

1st - Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
1st - Olga Rei, Russian television personality
2nd - Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress
3rd - Maxi López, Argentine footballer
3rd - Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
4th - Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
5th - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
6th - Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter
8th - Taran Noah Smith, SF California, actor (Mark Taylor-Home Improvement)
8th - Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model
8th - Kirsten Storms, American actress
9th - Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer
9th - Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
10th - Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
10th - Mandy Moore, American singer/actor
11th - Kelli Garner, American actress
13th - Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
14th - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
15th - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
15th - Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet
15th - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
16th - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
16th - Noah Fleiss, American actor
18th - America Ferrera, American actress
19th - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
20th - Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
21st - Ashley Peldon, Staten Is NY, actress (Marsha-Guilding Light, Deceived)
22nd - Michelle Ryan, English actress
22nd - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
23rd - Alexandra Kosteniuk, Chess Woman World Champion
24th - Tyson Ritter, American musician
25th - Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback
25th - Robert Andino, Baseball player
26th - Ryan O'Donohue, Pomona Ca, actress (Byrds of Paradise, Boys are Back)
26th - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
Musician Patrick Stump (27th) 27th - Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
27th - Frank Carter, British musician (Gallows) and tattooist
27th - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
27th - Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
29th - Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
29th - Taylor Cole, American actress
29th - Firass Dirani, Lebanese-Australian actor
30th - Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 34 of 34

1st - Marvin Gaye, singer (Sexual Healing), shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44
4th - John Arnold, cricketer (Eng bat v NZ 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies
4th - Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
5th - Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
5th - Theo Koomen, Dutch sportscaster, dies in auto-accident at 54
6th - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
6th - Ral Donner, singer/narrator, dies at 41
7th - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
7th - Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
8th - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
9th - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
10th - Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
10th - Ray Middleton, dies at 75
12th - Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76
13th - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
13th - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
13th - Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
14th - Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
15th - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
15th - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
17th - Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
18th - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
20th - Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
20th - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
22nd - Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
23rd - August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
25th - Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack
26th - Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70
26th - May McAvoy, actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack
26th - William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
27th - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63
28th - Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80
28th - Silvia A Warner, writer, dies
30th - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies