1984
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1984.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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- Event: The United States Congress funds resettlement efforts for the inhabitants of Centralia, Pennsylvania
- Event: A syzygy or great conjunction occurs as the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all on the same side of the Sun, and more or less lined up. A best-seller a few years before claimed the Jupiter Effect would occur, and cause a disaster scenario, possibly even the end of the world as we know it. In the real world, the predicted apocalypse didn't happen, obviously, but this could be a great departure point for an alternate history game set after the end.
- Fiction/Theme: Thanks to the book of the same name by George Orwell, this year has a mental association with dystopian totalitarianism and mass surveillance. Big Brother is watching.
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- Event: Bhopal Gas Disaster: A leak at a pesticide plant poisons over 550,000 people. 8,000 of them are dead within 2 weeks.
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