January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of death January 2, 1984
The temperature on January 2, 1984 was between 4.5 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
September 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
December 1 » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
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