Editing 1984

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== Events ==
* February 13 - [[Konstantin Chernenko]] is named General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] following the death of [[Yuri Andropov]].
* February 24 - [[Tyrone Mitchell|49th Street Elementary School shooting]]
* March 16 - Convicted [[Kidnapping|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 [[rape]]d. 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 [[The Monster With 21 Faces|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 [[Contras|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 [[murder]]ed by members of the [[White Supremacy|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 [[murder]]ed 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 Bombing|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==

=== Villain births ===
*January 8 - [[Kim Jong-un]]
*January 18 - [[Seung-Hui Cho]]
*February 3 - [[Brian McGhee]]
*February 4 - [[Joel Greenberg]]
*March 17 - [[Joshua Phillips]]
*March 27 - [[Ross William Ulbricht]]
*May 10 - [[Zara Phythian]]
*June 30 - [[Ismail Ibrahim of Johor]]
*July 27 - [[Andrew Anglin]]
*August 11 - [[Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden|Mitchell Johnson]] & [[Katie Rees]]
*August 16 - [[M8L8TH|Alexey Levkin]]
*August 31 - [[Julia Vickerman]]
*September 5 - [[Dahvie Vanity]]
*September 27 - [[Amanda Carmack]]
*October 18 - [[Milo Yiannopoulos]]

=== Victim births ===
* 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==
===Villain deaths===
*February 9 - [[Yuri Andropov]]
*February 24 - [[Tyrone Mitchell]]
*March 17 - [[Jeff Doucet]]
*March 21 - [[August Frank]]
*March 31 - [[Ronald Clark O'Bryan]]
*March 26 - [[Ahmed Sékou Touré]]
*April 13 - [[Christopher Wilder]]
*July 18 - [[James Oliver Huberty]]
*July 26 - [[Ed Gein]]
*September 9 - [[Yılmaz Güney]]
*October 31 - [[Indira Gandhi]]
*November 2 - [[Velma Barfield]]
*December 2 - [[Kieran Fleming]]
*December 6 - [[William Fleming]]
*December 7 - [[Charles Ray Hatcher]]
*December 8 - [[Robert Jay Mathews]]

===Victim deaths===
*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 [[Irish Republican Army|Brighton hotel bombing]]:
**Sir Anthony Berry
**Eric Taylor
**Lady Jeanne Shattock
**Lady Muriel Maclean
**Roberta Wakeham
*November 30 - David Wilkie