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  • Madrid, Spain
    Saturday May 5, 1984
    Diego Maradona

    Chaos in the King's presence

    Madrid, Spain
    Saturday May 5, 1984

    The end of the 1983–84 season included a violent and chaotic fight Maradona was directly involved in at the 1984 Copa del Rey final at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid against Athletic Bilbao. After receiving another rough tackle by Goikoetxea which wounded his leg, being taunted with xenophobic, racist insults related to his father's Native American ancestry throughout the match by Bilbao fans, and being provoked by Bilbao's Miguel Sola at full time as Barcelona lost 1–0, Maradona snapped. The mass brawl was played out in front of the Spanish King Juan Carlos and an audience of 100,000 fans inside the stadium, and more than half of Spain watching on television.




  • Amman, Jordan
    May, 1984
    Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

    Life in Jordan

    Amman, Jordan
    May, 1984

    In May 1984, Middleton traveled with her family to Amman, Jordan, where her father worked for British Airways. And in Jordan, Middleton attended an English-language nursery school.




  • California, U.S.
    May, 1984
    Atari, Inc.

    James J. Morgan takes charge

    California, U.S.
    May, 1984

    Financial problems continued to mount and Kassar's successor, James J. Morgan, had less than a year in which to tackle the company's problems. He began a massive restructuring of the company and worked with Warner Communications in May 1984 to create "NATCO" (an acronym for New Atari Company). NATCO further streamlined the company's facilities, personnel, and spending.




  • Jackson Township, New Jersey, U.S.
    Friday May 11, 1984
    Halloween

    Haunted Castle Fire

    Jackson Township, New Jersey, U.S.
    Friday May 11, 1984

    On the evening of 11 May 1984, in Jackson Township, New Jersey, the Haunted Castle (Six Flags Great Adventure) caught fire. As a result of the fire, eight teenagers perished. The backlash to the tragedy was a tightening of regulations relating to safety, building codes and the frequency of inspections of attractions nationwide. The smaller venues, especially the nonprofit attractions, were unable to compete financially, and the better funded commercial enterprises filled the vacuum. Facilities that were once able to avoid regulation because they were considered to be temporary installations now had to adhere to the stricter codes required of permanent attractions.




  • Bahrain
    Sunday May 13, 1984
    Iran–Iraq War

    Iran attacked a Kuwaiti tanker carrying Iraqi oil

    Bahrain
    Sunday May 13, 1984

    Iraq repeatedly bombed Iran's main oil export facility on Kharg Island, causing increasingly heavy damage. As a first response to these attacks, Iran attacked a Kuwaiti tanker carrying Iraqi oil near Bahrain on 13 May 1984, as well as a Saudi tanker in Saudi waters on 16 May.




  • Netherlands
    Sunday May 13, 1984
    Johan Cruyff

    Ended the Playing career

    Netherlands
    Sunday May 13, 1984

    He ended his Eredivisie playing career on 13 May 1984 with a goal against PEC Zwolle.




  • White Plains, New York, U.S.
    Monday May 14, 1984
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Birth

    White Plains, New York, U.S.
    Monday May 14, 1984

    Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York.


  • St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland
    Wednesday May 16, 1984
    04:11:00 PM
    Heysel Stadium Events

    1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup

    St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland
    Wednesday May 16, 1984
    04:11:00 PM

    The 1983–84 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Juventus in a final against Porto. The next year, the club went on to complete a full complement of European trophies with the European Cup. Universitatea Craiova, winners of the 1983 Romanian Cup Final, were denied entry as the Romanian Football Federation scheduled the final for the week after the closing date for entries. As a result, both the president, Andrei Rădulescu, and secretary, Florin Dumitrescu, of the Romanian FA were sacked.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Tuesday May 22, 1984
    Gulf War

    The Project Conclusions

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Tuesday May 22, 1984

    On 22 May 1984, President Reagan was briefed on the project conclusions in the Oval Office by William Flynn Martin who had served as the head of the NSC staff that organized the study. The full declassified presentation can be seen here. The conclusions were threefold: first, oil stocks needed to be increased among members of the International Energy Agency and, if necessary, released early in the event of oil market disruption; second, the United States needed to beef up the security of friendly Arab states in the region; and third, an embargo should be placed on sales of military equipment to Iran and Iraq. The plan was approved by President Reagan and later affirmed by the G-7 leaders headed by the United Kingdom's Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in the London Summit of 1984. The plan was implemented and became the basis for US preparedness to respond to the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1991.


  • Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
    Wednesday May 30, 1984
    Heysel Stadium Events

    1984 European Cup Final

    Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
    Wednesday May 30, 1984

    The 1984 European Cup Final was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Roma of Italy on 30 May 1984 at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy. It was the final match of the 1983–84 season of Europe's premier cup competition, the European Cup. Liverpool were appearing in their fourth final, having won the competition in 1977, 1978 and 1981. Roma were appearing in their first European Cup final.


  • Amritsar, Punjab, India
    Thursday May 31, 1984
    Indira Gandhi

    Operation Blue Star

    Amritsar, Punjab, India
    Thursday May 31, 1984

    After several futile negotiations, Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian army in June 1984 to enter the Golden Temple in order to remove Bhindranwale and his supporters from the complex. The army used heavy artillery, including tanks, in the action code-named Operation Blue Star. The operation badly damaged or destroyed parts of the Temple complex, including the Akal Takht shrine and the Sikh library. It also led to the deaths of a large number of Sikh fighters and innocent pilgrims. The number of casualties remains disputed with estimates ranging from many hundreds to many thousands.


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