Astronaut Bruce McCandless Becomes the First Human Satellite
On February 7, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made the first untethered spacewalk, flying free from the space shuttle Challenger.
Tales from the year 1984
The Soviet Puzzle That Conquered the World
On June 6, 1984, Soviet researcher Alexey Pajitnov completed the first playable Tetris — a game of falling blocks that would conquer the world.
Twenty Days with a Borrowed Heart: The Baby Fae Story
On October 26, 1984, surgeons gave a dying twelve-day-old baby a baboon's heart — a twenty-day struggle that changed infant medicine.
Bhopal: The Night the Sky Turned Poisonous
On December 3, 1984, a methyl isocyanate leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, became the worst industrial disaster in history.
One Signature, Five Million Futures: The Hong Kong Agreement
On December 19, 1984, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and China's Zhao Ziyang signed the treaty that would return Hong Kong to China in 1997.