5th » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian space program e.g Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle 'Space Shuttle Challenger known as Challenger'.
11th » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger or Space Shuttle 'Challenger', astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first United States e.g American woman to perform a space walk.
11th » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 Aeroflot Flight 3352 e.g crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
12th » Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister of the United Kingdom e.g Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
16th » 'The Bill' debuted on ITV (TV network) called ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
16th » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
26th » "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
31st » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassination of Indira Gandhi called assassinated by two Sikh security guards. 1984 anti-Sikh riots or Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed.