Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©
1984: The Year in Review
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24 January 1984. The Apple Macintosh is introduced.
February 1984
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8 February - 19 February 1984. The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which at the time was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden. It was the first Winter Games and the second Olympics held in a Communist state (the first was the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union).
13 February 1984. Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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28 July - 12 August 1984. The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes the IOC awarded Los Angeles the Games by default. The Soviet Bloc initially intended to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, but at the last minute chose to participate.
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20 September 1984. Hezbollah car-bombs the US Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
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19 October 1984. The Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
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