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1984
81. Prime Minister BOB HAWKE and
Opposition leader ANDREW PEACOCK participated
in Australia’s first nationally televised election
campaign debate.
82. BOB DYER, Pick-A-Box' host, died
aged 74.
83. JULIAN LENNON had
his debut hit with Too Late
For Goodbyes.
84. THE COSBY
SHOW began on US television. (Ended
in 1992)
85. MATS WILANDER won
his second successive Australian Open Men’s
single title.
86. Grammy Awards for Record and
Song of the Year went to TINA TURNER
for What’s Love Got To Do
With It.
87. Sunday VFL games
were introduced.
88. $100 NOTE went into circulation
in Australia.
89. British-born actor JAMES MASON died
aged 75.
90. First APPLE MACINTOSH computer
was released.
91. GRANT DODWELL won the TV Week
Silver Logie award for
Most Popular Actor for the third
successive year.
92. TWELFTH MAN had the
biggest-selling Australian single
with the novelty recording It’s Just
Not Cricket.
93. Indian Prime Minister INDIRA
GANDHI was assassinated aged 66. She was succeeded by
her
son Rajiv. (He too was assassinated,
in 1991).
94. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE
OF DOOM was the highest-grossing movie
in Australia.
95. AUSTRALIA’S POPULATION was estimated
at 15,450,000.
96. Melbourne’s PETER MOORE won the VFL
Brownlow Medal.
97. Australian test cricketer DENNIS
LILLEE retired.
98. ELTON JOHN married Renata Blauel
in
Sydney on St Valentine’s Day. (They
later divorced).
99. AMADEUS won the Academy Award for
Best Picture.
100. US singer JACKIE WILSON died
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