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28 August 1984 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 August 1984 was a Tuesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Careless Whisper” by George Michael.
- Top Film of 1984
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1984 was Ghostbusters.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 August 1984 fell in the Year of the Rat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 August 1984 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 28 August
- 1990 Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1993 NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
- 1993 Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
- 1993 The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
- 1996 Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
Famous people born on 28 August
- David Fincher, American director and producer (born 1962)
- Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter (born 1965)
- Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (1917–1994)
- Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor (born 1956)
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Events of 1984 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '1984 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 1 January – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
- 3 January – The FTSE 100 Index starts.
- 12 March – Miners' strike begins and pits the National Union of Mineworkers against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government intent on free market reform of the nationalised industries, which includes plans for the closure of most of Britain's remaining coal pits.
Life in 1984
Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
63p
Loaf of Bread
44p
Average House
£28,153
Weekly Wage
£165.00
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