1983 - 1984

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March 1984

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On the 1st...

UK: Tony Benn wins the Chesterfield by-election
NASA launched Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to map the Earth.
US actor Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester-Addams Family) died

On the 2nd...

An Iran offensive against Iraq failed.

On the 3rd...

Nena with "99 Baloons" at number 1

On the 4th...

Nigeria: 1000 people feared dead after religious rioting in the northern city of Yola
Actress Patsy Kensit's 16th Birthday

On the 5th...

US accused Iraq of using poison gas.
Italian singer Tito Gobbi died
Concerns about global warming from University of East Anglia

On the 7th...

London: Stephen Waldorf, who was shot in error in 82 is awarded Ł120,000 compensation

On the 12th...

Geneva: President Gemayel opens a conference for peace in the Lebanon
UK: The miners strike begins

On the 13th...

London: Tax thresholds are raised in the budget

On the 14th...

Northern Ireland: Gerry Adams is shot and seriously wounded by loyalist gunmen

On the 16th...

S. Africa: Peace accord with Mozambique is signed

On the 17th...

Ireland: INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey is arrested after a shootout and extradited to Ulster

On the 18th...

Oxford wins the boat race in a record 16mins 45 seconds

On the 20th...

Brussels: EEC summit collapses after a disagreement over Britain's budget payments
A Soviet tanker hits mine off the coast of Nicaragua, and it is discovered that the CIA had assisted rebels in mining the country's harbors.

On the 21st...

A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.

On the 23rd...

Sarah Tisdall is jailed for 6 months, for leaking a document to the Guardian
Blur's Damon Albarn's 16th Birthday

On the 24th...

Lionel Richie is number 1 with "Hello"

On the 27th...

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe's techno musical, roller-skating venture "Starlight Express," premiered.
Peter Sutcliffe is transferred from Parkhurst to Broadmoor

On the 28th...

Athens: British diplomat Kenneth Whitty is shot dead
Nissan chooses sunderland for it's new plant

On the 29th...

"Xena: Warrior Princess" Lucy Lawless's 16th Birthday

On the 30th...

Singer Céline Dion's 16th Birthday

On the 31st...

Hello Dandy wins the Grand National