Historical Events for April 1984
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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
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