November 1984

Friday 02:

Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

Tuesday 06:

Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale to be re-elected in one of the largest electoral landslide in United States election history.

Monday 19:

A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

Friday 23:

Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

Sunday 25:

A KCR train goes off track between Sheung Shui and Fanling.

Wednesday 28:

Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.