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1984
 
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A disastrous famine in the northern provinces of Ethiopia is the first to be seen all round the world on television     
1984
 
    
The Turkana Boy, the most complete known skeleton of Homo erectus, is found near Lake Turkana by Kamoya Kimeu in Richard Leakey's team       
1984
 
 
Roland Joffé directs The Killing Fields, set among the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia    
1984
 
   
Brian Mulroney wins a decisive electoral victory over the Liberals to become prime minister of Canada      
1984
 
    
Genetic (or DNA) fingerprinting is invented and developed by British geneticist Alec Jeffreys       
1984
 
    
Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg       
1984
 
   
Australian bowler Dennis Lillee's total of 351 Test wickets sets a new record      
1984
 
    
Indira Gandhi is assassinated in Delhi by members of her Sikh bodyguard, in retaliation for the desecration of the Golden Temple       
1984
 
   
Ian Botham is the first player to achieve the double triple, with a total of more than 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket      
1984
 
   
Rajiv Gandhi succeeds his mother as leader of the Congress party and prime minister of India