Real-Life Villains

1984

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Events edit

  • February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union following the death of Yuri Andropov.
  • February 24 - 49th Street Elementary School shooting
  • March 16 - Convicted kidnapper and pedophile Jeff Doucet is shot at point-blank range at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport by Gary Plauché, father of Jody Plauché whom Doucet had abducted and raped. Doucet, who was in police custody and had been extradited back to Louisiana to face trial when he was shot, dies from his wounds the following day.
  • March 18 - Katsuhisa Ezaki, head of Ezaki Glico corporation, is abducted by unidentified assailants, marking the beginning of the Monster With 21 Faces case.
  • April 1 - Singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye is murdered by his father Marvin Gay Sr. at his parents' home in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
  • April 5 - Lansana Conté seizes power in Guinea after overthrowing the provisional government and declaring himself president.
  • April 10 - Richard Ramirez commits his first confirmed murder, killing 9-year old Mei Leung in the basement of the hotel where he was living, in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. 
  • April 25 - Iskandar Ismail of Johor is elected Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, succeeding Ahmad Abu Bakar of Pahang.
  • May 30 - The La Penca bombing is perpetrated by the Sandinista National Liberation Front at a guerrilla outpost located on the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border in an attempt to assassinate Contra leader Edén Pastora. Seven people, including three journalists, are killed in the attack.
  • June 1 to 10 - Operation Blue Star takes place.
  • June 18 - Jewish attorney and talk show host Alan Berg is murdered by members of the white supremacist group The Order.
  • July 18 – 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty enters a McDonald's restauraunt in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California and kills 21 people before being gunned down by a SWAT officer.
  • June 23 - 15-year old Kirsten Costas is murdered in her family's front yard in Orinda, California by her classmate Bernadette Protti.
  • July 22 - The People's Redemption Council (the ruling military junta of Liberia since 1980) is dissolved.
  • August 4 - Upper Volta is renamed Burkina Faso on the one-year anniversary of Thomas Sankara's coup.
  • August 28 - 18-year old Elisabeth Fritzl is lured into the modified basement of her Amstetten, Austria home by her father Josef Fritzl, who traps her in the basement and convinces her mother that she had run away. This begins Elisabeth's 24 years of imprisonment in the basement, during which her father repeatedly rapes and abuses her numerous times.
  • August 29 - Lam Kor-wan's death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
  • September 13 - Yitzhak Shamir's first term as Prime Minister of Israel ends.
  • October 12 - Patrick Magee bombs the Grand Hotel in Brighton in a failed attempt to kill prime minister Margaret Thatcher, killing five people.
  • October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by a Sikh suicide bomber at her residence on Safdarjung Road in New Delhi.
  • Unknown - The Order of the Solar Temple is founded.
  • Unknown - Aum Shinrikyo is founded by Shoko Asahara.

Births edit

Villain births edit

Victim births edit

  • January 10 - Shanann Cathryn Watts
  • March 2 - Daniel Rohrbough
  • March 12 - Jennifer Cave
  • May 22 - Kelly Yeomans
  • May 27 - Eric Sands
  • August 28 - Steve Curnow
  • December 30 - Lindsay Hawker

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

Victim deaths edit

  • April 1 - Marvin Gaye
  • April 10 - Mei Leung
  • June 18 - Alan Berg
  • June 23 - Kirsten Costas
  • August 19 - Louis Lansana Beavogui
  • September 17 - Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
  • October 12 - Victims of the Brighton hotel bombing:
    • Sir Anthony Berry
    • Eric Taylor
    • Lady Jeanne Shattock
    • Lady Muriel Maclean
    • Roberta Wakeham
  • November 30 - David Wilkie
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