The year was 1984
Ronald Reagan, President
Average Cost of a new house $86,7300
Average Income per year $21,600
Gallon of Gas $1.10
Dodge Ram 50 cost $8,995
Interest rates year end Federal Reserve 10.75%
Year end close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1211
Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles
USSR and Soviet Block boycott the Olympic Games in retaliation of Western Boycott in 1980
Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Bhopal, India leaks lethal gas killing more than 3,500
Indian Prime Minister Indria Ghandi assassinated
MTV Video Award started
70 US banks fail by year end, Recession continues
Aids virus indenified by French Immunoogist
AT&T broken up
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Sony and Phillips make the first commercial CD Players
The Space Shuttle Discovery makes its maiden voyage
Sony makes the 1st 31/2" computer disk
DNA profiling was developed
A giant gas works explosion on the outskirts of Mexico City kills 500
(Subway Vigalante) Bernard Geotz shoots four black youths on a Manhatten subway
12 month coal miners strike begins in Great Britian
Ethopian famine begins
Brunei gains Independence from Great Britian
Truck containing 500 kg. of high explosives destroys the US Embassy in Beruit, Lebanon killing 12 people
