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1984 · Lebanon History

• 14 January 1984Death of Saad Haddad
• 18 January 1984AUB president Malcolm Kerr assassinatedOn 18 January 1984 Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated with two shots…
• 18 January 1984Fourteen-year-old Nazih Qubrusli attacks an Israeli patrol in Sidon
• 6 February 1984The 6 February uprisingOn 6 February 1984 the Amal Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party took control of West Beirut after the army…
• 6 February 1984The Sixth Brigade mutinies
• 6 February 1984The lira begins to slideAfter eight years of war the lira had held near 3–5 to the dollar thanks to the reserves and remittances; with the…
• 7 February 1984The national parties take West Beirut
• 8 February 1984USS New Jersey shells the Mountain: 288 roundsOn 8 and 9 February 1984 the American battleship New Jersey fired 288 16-inch shells at Syrian and Druze positions in…
• 14 February 1984Collapse of the 4th Brigade and the fall of DamourOn 14 February 1984 Amal and Druze forces met at Khalde and drove the 4th Brigade from its positions; some 900 Druze…
• 16 February 1984Assassination of Sheikh Ragheb HarbOn 16 February 1984 Sheikh Ragheb Harb, the imam of Jibsheet and the symbol of the resistance in the South, who had…
• 26 February 1984US Marines withdraw from BeirutOn 26 February 1984 the Marines completed their withdrawal from Beirut airport to the ships off the coast, after the…
• 5 March 1984Lebanon abrogates the May 17 AgreementOn 5 March 1984 the Lebanese government formally annulled the 17 May Agreement after the 6 February uprising and the…
• 12 March 1984The Lausanne conference
• 16 March 1984Kidnapping of William BuckleyThe kidnapping of the CIA station chief in Beirut by Hezbollah; he had come on a mission to investigate the embassy and…
• 4 April 1984Antoine Lahd appointed
• 20 September 1984Bombing of the US embassy annex in AwkarOn 20 September 1984 a martyrdom bomber blew up a truck carrying some 1,400 kilograms of explosives at the American…
• 20 September 1984Sohmor massacre
• 3 December 1984Peter Kilburn kidnapped