Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. Here’s a four-paragraph overview of the history of Virgin Atlantic: Virgin Atlantic was founded…
Tag: 1984
10 February 1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
3 February 1984
Dr John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another…
3 December 1984
Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others…
11 August 1984
“We begin bombing in five minutes”: United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on…
10 February 1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagalla_massacre’]
22 January 1984
The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television…
16 October 1984
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu’]
20 September 1984
A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_embassy_annex_bombing_in_Beirut’]