Class of 1984 (Valley Stream South High School Class of 1984)

Valley Stream South Class of 1984

General

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News and Events of 1984

World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.769 billion
population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Bishop Desmond Tutu (South Africa)

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Syria frees captured US Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr. (Jan. 3).
US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus (Jan. 10).
Reagan orders US Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force (Feb. 7).
Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet leader (Feb. 9). Background: Rulers of Russia since 1533
Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion (Feb. 18).
Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in US, and other bloc nations follow (May 7 et seq.).
José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador (May 11).
Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar (June 6).
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her (Oct. 31).
Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000 (Dec. 3).

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 235,824,902
Life expectancy: 74.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.3
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 44.9

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Bell System broken up (Jan. 1).
Congress rebukes President Reagan on use of federal funds for mining Nicaraguan harbors (April 10).
Thirty-ninth Democratic National Convention, nominates Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro (July 16–19).
Thirty-third Republican National Convention renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush (Aug. 20-25).
President Reagan re-elected in landslide with 59% of vote (Nov. 7).

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Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars):   $3,902.40 billion
Federal spending:   $851.85 billion
Federal debt:   $1564.7 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars):  $22,415
Consumer Price Index:   103.9
Unemployment:   7.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.20