September 1984 calendar

Events

• 02 Sep 1984 Zorba closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
• 03 Sep 1984 Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
• 04 Sep 1984 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years
• 05 Sep 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) - Discovery 1 - lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
• 06 Sep 1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
• 08 Sep 1984 98th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills
• 09 Sep 1984 104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl
• 10 Sep 1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
• 12 Sep 1984 Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
• 13 Sep 1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
• 14 Sep 1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host
• 15 Sep 1984 Morocco Showcase opens
• 16 Sep 1984 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
• 17 Sep 1984 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
• 18 Sep 1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship
• 19 Sep 1984 Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
• 20 Sep 1984 Cosby Show premieres on NBC-TV
• 21 Sep 1984 NASA launches Galaxy-C.
• 22 Sep 1984 Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este
• 23 Sep 1984 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly
• 24 Sep 1984 Cubs clinch NL East title
• 25 Sep 1984 Quilters opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
• 26 Sep 1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
• 28 Sep 1984 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia
• 29 Sep 1984 (What) In Name Of Love by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
• 30 Sep 1984 Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), Kansas City wins 10-6

Famous Birthday

• Prince Harry of Wales

  UK royalty.

• Avril Lavigne

  Canadian singer and songwriter.

• Brian Joubert

  French ice skater, a champion figure skater who competed in several winter Olympics.

• Kavya Madhavan
• Katie Melua

  Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Laura Vandervoort

  Canadian actress.

• Sabrina Bryan

  American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls).

• Garrett Hedlund

  American actor.

• Fernanda Vasconcellos
• Esther Baxter

  American model.

• Kevin Zegers

  Movie Actor.

• Mathieu Valbuena

  French international footballer who played for Marseille, for Dynamo Moscow (since 2014) in the Russian Premier League, and for Lyon.

• Paz de la Huerta

  American model and actress.

• Adam Lamberg

  American actor.

• Luc Abalo

  French handball player.

• Melody Thornton

  American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls).

• Icaro (Star Academy)
• Lydia Hearst-Shaw
• Vera Zvonareva

  Russian tennis player.

• Annabelle Wallis

  English actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Janet Gaynor

  American actress who made 34 films from 1926-1938 including "A Star is Born," 1937.

• Richard Basehart

  American stage actor in the '30s who made his Broadway debut in 1938.

• Ernest Tubb

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984).

• Steve Goodman

  a Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois (born 1948).

• Walter Kaufmann

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Yilmaz Gueney

  Director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47.

• Hilding Hallnas

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Al Goris]

  Writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85.

• Ellsworth Bunker

  US ambassador (South-Vietnam), dies at 90.

• Jerry Voorhis

  American politician (Born 1901).

• Walter Pidgeon of New Brunswick

  Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at age 87 after a series of strokes (born 1897).

• John Facenda

  sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at age 72.

• Manos Katrakis

  Greek actor (Born 1908).

• Joe Cronin

  American baseball player, baseball official, president of american league of baseball; debut, right-handed.

• Paquirri

  Famous Spanish bullfighter nicknamed "Paquirri".

• Walter Kaufmann

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Arthur Schwartz

  Producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83.

• June Preisser

  Dancer / actress (Babes in Arms), dies in car crash at 61.

• Howland Chamberlin

  Actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73.

• Neil Hamilton

  Actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It
2. John Waite - Missing You
3. Prince - Let's Go Crazy
4. Lionel Richie - Stuck On You
5. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
2. George Michael - Careless Whisper
3. Culture Club - The War Song
4. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
5. Wham! - Freedom