1st » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
3rd » Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industri
4th » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers 1984 Mannar massacre known as kill 107-150 civilians in Mannar, Sri Lanka called Mannar.
4th » Hezbollah militants Aircraft hijacking named hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
19th » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret
20th » The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a Freight rail transport called freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden or Todmorden, England in the Pennines.
22nd » Bernhard Goetz shoots four African American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1984
2nd » Péter Máté (footballer) called Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer