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.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
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 22 » 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 commercial.
March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
April 4 » President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
November 27 » Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
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