July 1984

Wednesday 04:

NASCAR driver Richard Petty wins his 200th and final career victory at the Firecracker 400 race.

Saturday 14:

New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon

Tuesday 17:

Laurent Fabius becomes Prime Minister of France

Wednesday 18:

1984 - National Crime Authority. Formed, in Australia.

Friday 20:

The United Nations Security Council demands a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War.

Saturday 21:

In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.

Monday 23:

Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.

Wednesday 25:

Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.