...Date... AGE Event
1984/--/-- 0 *** Harlan, James Matthew - Born to Harlan, Ronald Eugene "Gene"
1984/--/-- 0 - A toxic gas leak kills 2,000 and affects an estimated 150,000 in Bhopal, India.
1984/--/-- 0 - American pop singer Madonna releases her album Like a Virgin.
1984/--/-- 0 - American track athlete Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics.
1984/--/-- 0 - Brian Mulroney succeeds John Turner as prime minister of Canada.
1984/--/-- 0 - Britain and China sign a treaty for the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1984/--/-- 0 - Britain grants independence to Brunei.
1984/--/-- 0 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher escapes injury in an IRA bomb attack.
1984/--/-- 0 - Comedian Eddie Murphy stars in the film Beverly Hills Cop.
1984/--/-- 0 - Congress forbids official U.S. aid for the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 0 - Czech writer Milan Kundera publishes The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
1984/--/-- 0 - Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the U.S.
1984/--/-- 0 - Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh extremists.
1984/--/-- 0 - Indian troops attack the Golden Temple at Amritsar to remove militant Sikhs.
1984/--/-- 0 - Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
1984/--/-- 0 - Rap music
1984/--/-- 0 - Rev. Desmond Tutu, opponent of apartheid, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984/--/-- 0 - Rock singer Bob Geldof organizes Band Aid to raise funds for African famine victims.
1984/--/-- 0 - Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra is elected president of Nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 0 - Shimon Peres succeeds Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister of Israel.
1984/--/-- 0 - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; he is succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko.
1984/--/-- 0 - Space Shuttle astronauts test the manned maneuvering unit and move freely in space.
1984/08/-- 0 *** Bristow, David Jesse [1st cousin once removed] - began high school at Clinton County High
1984/10/-- 0 - World Series NL SAN DIEGO (1) AL DETROIT (4)
1985/--/-- 1 - Albanian premier Enver Hoxha dies; he is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
1985/--/-- 1 - American film actor Rock Hudson dies from AIDS.
1985/--/-- 1 - American humorist and radio personality Garison Keillor publishes Lake Wobegon Days.
1985/--/-- 1 - American rock singer Tina Turner wins three Grammy Awards.
1985/--/-- 1 - Baseball player Pete Rose beats Ty Cobb's 57-year-old record of 4,191 base hits.
1985/--/-- 1 - Boxer Michael Spinks defeats Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship.
1985/--/-- 1 - Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the Western film Pale Rider.
1985/--/-- 1 - French agents sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
1985/--/-- 1 - Gorbachev unravels Soviet system
1985/--/-- 1 - Jose de Sarney becomes the first civilian president of Brazil in 21 years.
1985/--/-- 1 - Julius Nyerere is succeeded as president of Tanzania by Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
1985/--/-- 1 - Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Buhari is ousted in a bloodless coup in Nigeria.
1985/--/-- 1 - Mexico City is heavily damaged by an earthquake.
1985/--/-- 1 - Middleweight champion Marvin Hagler defends his title against Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns.
1985/--/-- 1 - Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian liner Achille Lauro.
1985/--/-- 1 - Premier Gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
1985/--/-- 1 - President Milton Obote is ousted in a military coup in Uganda.
1985/--/-- 1 - President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev hold their first summit meeting.
1985/--/-- 1 - President Reagan is inaugurated for his second term of office.
1985/--/-- 1 - Robert Redford and Meryl Streep star in the film Out of Africa.
1985/--/-- 1 - Running back Walter Payton sets an all-time NFL record for rushes of 14,860 yards.
1985/--/-- 1 - Shiite Muslim terrorists hijack a TWA Boeing 727 jet to Beirut.
1985/--/-- 1 - Soviet premier Konstantin Chernenko dies; he is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
1985/--/-- 1 - Sudanese prime minister Gaafar al-Nimeiry is ousted in a military coup.
1985/--/-- 1 - The North American Soccer League (NASL) suspends operations.
1985/--/-- 1 - World chess champion Anatoly Karpov is defeated by 21-year-old Gary Kasparov.
1985/01/21 1 - Reagan's second inauguration.
1985/04/29 1 *** Harlan, John Howard [Great Uncle] - Died Cancer Albany Kentucky Hillcrest Cemetery at Peolia
1985/10/-- 1 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL KANSAS CITY (4)
1986/--/-- 2 - A hole in the ozone layer is detected over Antarctica.
1986/--/-- 2 - A major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
1986/--/-- 2 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of hanged premier Ali Bhutto, is jailed in Pakistan.
1986/--/-- 2 - Boxer Mike Tyson wins his first world heavyweight title.
1986/--/-- 2 - Civil war breaks out in Yemen (Aden).
1986/--/-- 2 - Comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen directs Hannah and Her Sisters.
1986/--/-- 2 - Corazon Aquino is elected president of the Philippines; Ferdinand Marcos is exiled.
1986/--/-- 2 - Cyclist Greg LeMond becomes the first American to win the Tour de France.
1986/--/-- 2 - Czech tennis player Ivan Lendl wins the French Open and U.S. Open tournaments.
1986/--/-- 2 - Filmmaker Oliver Stone directs the Vietnam War film Platoon.
1986/--/-- 2 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus at age 46 becomes the oldest man ever to win the U.S. Open.
1986/--/-- 2 - Ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky raises the season point record to 215.
1986/--/-- 2 - Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1986/--/-- 2 - President Francois Mitterrand appoints Jacques Chirac prime minister of France.
1986/--/-- 2 - President Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti goes into exile.
1986/--/-- 2 - Sayid Mohammad Najibullah replaces Marxist president Babrak Karmal in Afghanistan.
1986/--/-- 2 - Select committees are established to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair.
1986/--/-- 2 - Singer-actress Bette Midler stars in Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
1986/--/-- 2 - Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
1986/--/-- 2 - The European Space Agency's Giotto spacecraft passes within 335 miles of Halley's comet.
1986/--/-- 2 - The Food and Drug Administration approve the commercial use of the drug interferon.
1986/--/-- 2 - The Soviet Union launches the first Mir space station.
1986/--/-- 2 - The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after launch, killing the crew of seven.
1986/--/-- 2 - The ultralight Voyager aircraft flies around the world nonstop in 9 days.
1986/--/-- 2 - U.S. aircraft attack military and terrorist related targets in Libya.
1986/--/-- 2 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet Uranus.
1986/--/-- 2 - Yitzak Shamir succeeds Shimon Peres as prime minister of Israel.
1986/01/28 2 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It is the worst accident in the history of the U.S. space program.
1986/04/14 2 - U.S. bombs military bases in Libya in effort to deter terrorist strikes on American targets.
1986/10/-- 2 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1986/11/-- 2 - Iran-Contra scandal breaks when White House is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals.
1986/11/09 2 *** Ginther, Ronda Elizabeth [2nd cousin] - Born to Ginther, Robert Michael and Harlan, Wilma Diane (Ginther)
1987/--/-- 3 - A Wall Street stock market crisis spreads to Tokyo and London.
1987/--/-- 3 - American author Tom Wolfe publishes the satirical novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
1987/--/-- 3 - Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's points record.
1987/--/-- 3 - Bettino Craxi resigns; Giovanni Goria becomes prime minister of Italy.
1987/--/-- 3 - Colonel Oliver North testifies at the Iran-Contra Affair hearings.
1987/--/-- 3 - Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation.
1987/--/-- 3 - East German leader Erich Honecker makes his first visit to West Germany.
1987/--/-- 3 - Filmmaker Brian De Palma directs The Untouchables.
1987/--/-- 3 - Gary Hart ends his Presidential campaign after allegations of sexual impropriety.
1987/--/-- 3 - Libya suffers a military defeat in Chad.
1987/--/-- 3 - More than 400 die in clashes between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi police at Mecca.
1987/--/-- 3 - Ozone "hole" found over Antartica
1987/--/-- 3 - Takeshita Noburu succeeds Nakasone Yasuhiro as the Japanese premier.
1987/--/-- 3 - The U.S. frigate Stark is hit by an Iraqi missile in the Persian Gulf.
1987/--/-- 3 - West Bank Palestinians launch an intifadah (uprising) against the Israeli occupation.
1987/--/-- 3 - Writer Gore Vidal publishes Empire, a novel of 19th-century U.S. politics.
1987/05/16 3 *** Wooding, Eric L. & Harlan, Teresa Mae (Wooding) [1st cousin once removed] - Married East Peoria, Ill.
1987/06/-- 3 *** Bristow, David Jesse [1st cousin once removed] - Governor's Scholar's Program at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
1987/06/12 3 - In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and open Eastern Europe to political and
economic reform.
1987/06/13 3 *** Marshall, Janet Lee (Harlan) & Harlan, Norman Dale [1st cousin once removed] - Married
1987/08/13 3 *** Harlan, James Matthew - Died
1987/10/-- 3 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (3) AL MINNESOTA (4)
1987/11/06 3 *** Cooksey, James Ross [1st cousin] - Born to Cooksey, James Michael and Harlan, Janice Lynn (Cooksey)
1987/12/08 3 - Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty, the first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers' nuclear weapons.
In 1984 Transportation was by:
Foot
Bicycle
Train
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
Helicopter
Jet
nuclear ship
Space travel
In 1984 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telephone
FAX
By 1987 Communications was by:
E-Mail
in addition.
In 1984 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Electric
Refrigeration
Dish washer
Garbage Disposal
In 1984 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1984 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1984 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
Assault rifle
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Biological agents
Aeroplane
Helicopter
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
Satellites
In 1984 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
Radar
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:12