Historical Events for July 1984
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Events 1 - 64 of 64
1st - "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1st - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1st - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1st - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
3rd - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
3rd - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
3rd - Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
3rd - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
4th - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
4th - Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
4th - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
4th - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
5th - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
7th - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
7th - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
8th - 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
8th - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
9th - 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
9th - Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
Tennis Great John McEnroe
11th - 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF
11th - All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
11th - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
11th - Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
11th - Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
12th - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
13th - Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
13th - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
13th - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
14th - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
14th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
15th - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
15th - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
17th - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
17th - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
Hall of Fame rocker Eddie Van Halen
18th - James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif
18th - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
19th - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
19th - Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
20th - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
20th - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
21st - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
21st - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
21st - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
22nd - 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
22nd - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
22nd - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
23rd - KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
23rd - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
23rd - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
25th - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
26th - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
26th - Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
26th - Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
27th - Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
28th - 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
29th - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
29th - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
30th - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
30th - Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
30th - Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
31st - Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
31st - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
31st - Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
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