The world at your birth

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October 12 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) kills five people in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference in an attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet.
October 20 - Andrew Trimble (international rugby player) born.
October 27 - Kelly Osbourne born.
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards . Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed. Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.   
November 2 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
November 4 - Dell Computers was founded as PC's Limited.
November 5 - Jas born.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
November 9 - Delta Goodrem (Australian actress and singer) born.
November 22 - Scarlett Johansson (American actress) born.
November 25 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid, and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
December 2 - Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.