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The year 1984 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
- The NRAO converts the 36-foot Radio Telescope on Kitt Peak (originally built in 1967) to a 12 Meter Telescope.
Computer science
- January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
- January 22 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Computer corporation
Technology
- July 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.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- May 13 - Stanisław Marcin Ulam (b. 1909), mathematician.
- October 20 - Paul Dirac (b. 1902), physicist.