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1984-12-24
Palace coup in Mauritania
serial
14837
year
1984
month
12
day
24
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Palace coup in Mauritania
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12/1 - "50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)"
12/1 - France performs nuclear test
12/2 - "4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win"
12/2 - "Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG"
12/2 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
12/3 - "2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India"
12/4 - "Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers."
12/4 - Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
12/5 - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell & Jose Rijo
12/5 - French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
12/5 - Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
12/6 - France performs nuclear test
12/6 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
12/7 - Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
12/8 - Ringo Starr appears on Saturday Night Live
12/8 - Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
12/8 - 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
12/9 - 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
12/9 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
12/9 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
12/9 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
12/9 - "LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards"
12/9 - Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
12/10 - WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
12/10 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
12/10 - "1st ""planet"" outside our solar system discovered"
12/11 - Doug Henning & His World... opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
12/11 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
12/13 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
12/14 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
12/15 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
12/17 - "NJ Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0"
12/17 - NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
12/18 - 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
12/19 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
12/19 - Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
12/19 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
12/19 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
12/19 - "Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points"
12/20 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
12/20 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
12/21 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
12/21 - USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
12/22 - Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
12/22 - "Madonna's ""Like a Virgin"" single goes #1 for 6 weeks"
12/22 - "Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG"
12/23 - Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
12/24 - Palace coup in Mauritania
12/27 - Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
12/28 - "Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old"
12/28 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
12/28 - "TV soap ""Edge of Night"" ends 28 year run"
12/28 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
12/29 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
12/29 - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
12/29 - 5th United Negro College Fund
12/30 - Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
12/31 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash
12/31 - NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
12/31 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi
12/31 - "Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta"
12/31 - US leaves UNESCO