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PZ3.O793 Ni2. Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
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- Winston Smith
October. October 1 – American Movie Classics is initiated. October 2 – John Schnatter opens the first Papa John's Pizza in Jeffersonville, Indiana. October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. October 6 – Out of Control debuts on Nickelodeon.
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January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN).January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album 1984 (MCMLXXXIV), which debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the United States.February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.February 8–19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.March 16 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organizationand later dies in captivity.March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.April 12 – Palestiniangunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.April 15 – The first World Youth Daygathering is held in Rome, Italy.May 2 – South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassadam.May 8 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.May 11 – A transit of Earth from Marstakes place.June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.June 8 – A F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.June 16 – The Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleilis founded.June 22 – Virgin Atlanticmakes its inaugural flight.July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.August 11 – Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd and Mary Deckerof the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancherosin Sydney, Australia.September 4 – The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, forming the largest majority governmentin Canadian history.September 7 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off Gozokills seven soldiers and policemen.October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest.October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.October 9 – Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by Britt Allcroftbroadcasts its first two episodes in the United Kingdom.The film was released in the United Kingdom on October 10, 1984, by Virgin Films. It received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Art Direction , and won two Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Film and Best Actor.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. More ...
Historical events in October 1984. Learn about 62 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in Oct 1984 or search by date or keyword.
In recent years we’ve featured radio productions of 1984 from 1949, 1953, and 1965. On their program From the Vault, the Pacifica Radio network has just finished bringing out of the archives their own 1975 broadcast of the novel as read by morning-show host Charles Morgan. Neither an all-out radio drama nor a ...
