1984

• Billy Ocean - “Caribbean Queen”
• Culture Club - “Karma Chameleon”
• Cyndi Lauper - “Time After Time”
• David Bowie - "Blue Jean"
• Deniece Williams - “Let’s Hear It For the Boy”
• Duran Duran - “The Reflex”
• Hall & Oats - “Out of Touch”
• John Waite - “Missing You”
• Kenny Loggins - “Footloose”
• Kool and the Gang - “Joanna”
• Lionel Richie - “Hello”
• Matthew Wilder - “Break My Stride”
• Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
• Phil Colins - “Against All Odds”
• Prince - “Let’s Go Crazy”
• Prince - “When Doves Cry”
• Queen - "Radio Ga Ga"
• Ray Parker Jr - “Ghostbusters”
• Stevie Wonder - “Just Called to Say I Love You”
• Thompson Twins - “Hold Me Now”
• Tina Turner - “What’s Love Got to Do With It”
• Van Halen - “Jump”
• Wham! - “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”
• Yes - “Owner of a Lonely Heart”

• Beverly Hills Cop
• Ghostbusters
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Gremlins
• The Karate Kid
• Police Academy
• Footloose
• Romancing the Stone
• Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock
• Splash
• The Terminator

• Night Court
• Airwolf
• Kate and Allie
• My Little Pony
• Santa Barbara
• Muppet Babies
• Punky Brewster
• The Transformers
• Miami Vice
• Murder, She Wrote
• Charles in Charge

• Fantasy Island
• Hart to Hart
• One Day at a time
• Happy Days
• Three's Company
• Captain Kangaroo

• Dynasty
• Dallas
• The Cosby Show
• Family Ties
• The A-Team
• Simon & Simon
• Murder, She Wrote
• The Fall Guy
• The Love Boat
• The Facts of Life
• Webster
• Knight Rider

• Katy Perry - pop singer, "Roar", "Firework"
• LeBron James - superstar basketball player, won NBA championships in 2012, 2013 and 2016
• Khloe Kardashian - reality TV star,"Keeping up with the Kardashians"
• Avril Lavigne - Canadian pop singer, "Complicated"
• Theo James - movie actor, in "Divergent" movies
• Scarlett Johansson - movie actress, plays Black Widow in Marvel movies
• Calvin Harris - Scottish musician, DJ, "This is What you Came For", "Feels", "Feel so close"
• Prince Harry - heir to the British throne
• Mark Zuckerberg - founder of Facebook
• Sam Hunt - country singer, "Body like a Back Road"
• Bob Morley - TV actor, in "The 100"
• Mandy Moore - pop singer, actress in "This is Us"

• the original Apple Macintosh PC went on sale
• first solo transatlantic flight in a helium balloon by American Joe Kittinger
• first untethered space walk using jet packs
• MTV Video Music Awards
• AIDS virus identified
• Sony and Philips introduce first commercial CD players
• DNA profiling developed, now in wide use for forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime

• caps lock
• drop-down
• earbud
• FedEx
• free solo
• geeked
• glass ceiling
• go-to
• laptop
• moonwalk
• over-the-top
• phone tag
• pumped
• repurpose
• search engine
• sucky

October 5 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

On June 30, John Turner becomes Canada's seventeenth prime minister replacing the retiring Pierre Trudeau. On September 17, Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Canada's eighteenth prime minister.

Following the widespread famine in Ethiopia many of the top British and Irish USSR pop musicians join together under the Name Band Aid and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas".

The Games ran smoothly, giving no indication of the tragic war that would engulf the city eight years later. Skier Jure Franko claimed silver in the giant slalom to win Yugoslavia’s first Olympic Winter Games medal. Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre of the US took first and second place in the slalom.

Following the boycott by the US of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 the Soviet block boycotts the Los Angeles Olympic games. Carl Lewis entered the history books by matching the Berlin 1936 achievement of fellow American Jesse Owens, winning gold medals in the same four events: 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump.

A man shoots 20 dead and wounds 16 in a McDonalds restaurant on July 18th in San Ysidro California.

September 14-18: Colonel Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to complete a solo transatlantic flight in a helium balloon (86 hours) . He had previously set records for the highest parachute jump and the longest free fall in 1960 during Project Excelsior.

Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime.

The Space Shuttle Challenger launches on February 3 on the tenth space shuttle mission. The mission lasted nearly eight days. The mission was important in that it was the first time that astronauts attempted an un-tethered space walk using propulsive backpacks.