January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
Day of death August 14, 1984
The temperature on August 14, 1984 was between 12.0 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.
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